Posted on 12/26/2021 8:42:32 AM PST by Hojczyk
RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.
The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.
Dr. Rick Hildebrant is RRMC’s medical director. He says some people who test positive with a rapid test go to the emergency room looking for a PCR test.
Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider.
He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick.
Hildebrant says the flood of asymptomatic people is preventing others in need of immediate care from getting it.
“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.
The Vermont Hospital Association says it’s hearing similar stories from other parts of the state.
Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider.
He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick.
Hildebrant says the flood of asymptomatic people is preventing others in need of immediate care from getting it.
“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.
Hildebrant says health department PCR testing is the best option for asymptomatic people, even though the results take a little longer.
He says by going to the emergency department, you are also potentially exposing yourself to someone with COVID who is very sick.
That is so backwards, ignorant. Don’t get out much? Never see that in Mississippi.
A couple of friends, a few years older than my wife and I, were both married to other people as well as them, and they have a lot of DNA relatives.
So on Christmas day, they usually invite their local family members and some a few hours away to their home for a lot of food consumption and social interaction on Christmas day. We were invited as semi family.
This year, basically every family unit is in quarantine with what is probably OmniCon infecting one or family members.
So their expected guests went from the high teens to 6-8.
We were invited and planned to attend to share food and renew acquaintances with their relatives.
One of their grand daughters, who is an ICU critical care/Covid unit RN, also, rides in ambulances and works as an ER RN on call!
She, called us up and asked when we had our vaccinations and our last one was in Feb. Also, my wife is in the process of finally getting scheduled for a hip replacement.
This well qualified RN suggested that we not come and get possibly exposed.
So we didn’t!
So stupid. ‘I don’t have any symptoms. It’s an emergency!’
We’re sure having to put up with some heavy duty, industrial strength bullsh*t just so the old, creepy pedophile and his Indian sidekick could get “81 million votes”. I’m not liking this communist sh*t either.
“Do they also hear voices?”
They hear voices coming out of their TV set, radio and/or cell phone:
“Panic. Emergency. Panic. Emergency!”
How many amplification cycles on the PCR tests are being used in your lab? I read that a maximum of 28 is permitted to be used on a person who is vaccinated but there is no limit on people who are unvaccinated. If this is true, it’s definitely not science. It is just politics and propaganda.
the reason this so is because we’ve shared information including early treatment options.
Everything has been done backwards. They essentially put all their eggs in one basket with these failing shots. And I suspect in 5 years time, the look back will be we got it all very, very wrong. Operation WARP speed should have included existing treatment for early interventions. Instead, the government shutdown any conversation regarding intervention once you test positive. This is a key failure.
Liberals are mental ill, that’s why they are at the ER.
It is not “failure” when politicians take big bribes from Big Pharma and then start spouting Big Pharma propaganda.
It is evil.
Going to the ER with a cold. Who would have thunk it? We are separating the wheat from the chaff.
I never suggested the masses who occupy the Bernie-land parts of VT had any sense.
When I lived up there for a couple years (way after college) hardly anyone went out in the winter anyway.
The further you get away from Stowe-Burlington-Middlebury the more like America is seems.
People are nuts. The ER is expensive. Going there when you don’t have a reason is wasteful
Speak only if your doc
I have a $500 copayment for walking in the door, so I’ve been a patient at the ER twice in my life. One was unimaginable pain, the other time I was unconscious and didn’t get a say!
So a positive test without symptoms, no way. And even with symptoms I’ll eat horse paste and up my zinc/quercetin/B/C/D.
Report out studying the clai that hospitals are “overcrowded with covid patients” a few days ago showed that only 79% of beds were full nationwide, while,only 9% rare taken up by covid patients.
Emergency rooms were similar with 79% full, and only 19% of the patients were covid patients
You are correct on that. Friend of mine calls at the Howard Hughes syndrome
This is what media panic porn does.
Asymptomatic people flock to ERs.
All according to plan
I thought it was “rapid” tests that are very unreliable, but the standard tests (also described as PCR) are much more reliable.
The pandemic of the hypochondriac narcissist.
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