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COVID-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs
WCAX.com ^ | Dec. 22, 2021 at 4:11 PM UTC | Olivia Lyons

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.


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To: Hojczyk

That is so backwards, ignorant. Don’t get out much? Never see that in Mississippi.


41 posted on 12/26/2021 9:13:44 AM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: Hojczyk

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!


42 posted on 12/26/2021 9:14:04 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: Hojczyk

So stupid. ‘I don’t have any symptoms. It’s an emergency!’


43 posted on 12/26/2021 9:16:03 AM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


44 posted on 12/26/2021 9:17:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: bobbo666

“Do they also hear voices?”

They hear voices coming out of their TV set, radio and/or cell phone:

“Panic. Emergency. Panic. Emergency!”


45 posted on 12/26/2021 9:18:57 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: momincombatboots

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.


46 posted on 12/26/2021 9:19:58 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Qiviut
The key component in what you posted is...

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.

47 posted on 12/26/2021 9:20:34 AM PST by EBH (Never trust the government or a politician . 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: BozoTexino

Liberals are mental ill, that’s why they are at the ER.


48 posted on 12/26/2021 9:20:36 AM PST by Rodm
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To: EBH

It is not “failure” when politicians take big bribes from Big Pharma and then start spouting Big Pharma propaganda.

It is evil.


49 posted on 12/26/2021 9:23:42 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Hojczyk

Going to the ER with a cold. Who would have thunk it? We are separating the wheat from the chaff.


50 posted on 12/26/2021 9:23:58 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Hojczyk

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.


51 posted on 12/26/2021 9:26:43 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Hojczyk

People are nuts. The ER is expensive. Going there when you don’t have a reason is wasteful


52 posted on 12/26/2021 9:26:53 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Speak only if your doc


53 posted on 12/26/2021 9:30:33 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

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.


54 posted on 12/26/2021 9:31:36 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Hojczyk

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


55 posted on 12/26/2021 9:33:25 AM PST by Bob434
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To: CountryClassSF

You are correct on that. Friend of mine calls at the Howard Hughes syndrome


56 posted on 12/26/2021 9:36:45 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Bob434

This is what media panic porn does.

Asymptomatic people flock to ERs.


57 posted on 12/26/2021 9:36:54 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: AppyPappy

All according to plan


58 posted on 12/26/2021 9:37:41 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: momincombatboots

I thought it was “rapid” tests that are very unreliable, but the standard tests (also described as PCR) are much more reliable.


59 posted on 12/26/2021 9:37:48 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Hojczyk

The pandemic of the hypochondriac narcissist.


60 posted on 12/26/2021 9:38:19 AM PST by TexasM1A
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