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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: Qiviut

Actually the fact is, one shouldn’t need “prophylactic” or even real “treatment” - unless you are really sick or have something bad like COPD or obesity.

They’ve scared us so much that people think they need to take all these supplements….how long?

Most COVID can be treated like any flu. Treat the symptoms, be nice to yourself. No need for all this panic stock and usage of other chemicals.


61 posted on 12/26/2021 9:41:58 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
Well Joe is going to send out 500 million tests..just think of all the positive tests???

That's what I thought when I heard that. And some people will test every day if they have the means.

62 posted on 12/26/2021 9:45:10 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: the OlLine Rebel

My parents are high risk ... 99 (advanced heart failure) & 88 years old. IMO, they need to prophylact. We use Dr. Z’s protocol ... easy to do.


63 posted on 12/26/2021 9:46:33 AM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: LostInBayport

Understood

I’ve only been once ( for my broken hip). I’ve taken my daughter twice
( appendicitis and broken ankle)

I only go to the ER if it an emergency


64 posted on 12/26/2021 9:47:05 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

What? As a patient, I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it. The latest outrage was with my mother which ended in a yelling match that they were kicking us out.

Don’t tell me I can’t say anything unless I’m a doctor. BTW, which is included in my relations as well as a Hopkins COVID tech for a year.


65 posted on 12/26/2021 9:47:58 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: Col Frank Slade

True, but also, illegals flood emergency rooms for “free health care” too. I once went to one once after being sent there from a health center, for a particularly bad kidney stone, and had to wait 6 hours- by then it had passed to a point it no longer hurt so bad, and they sent me home after a quick exam and not treatment. I could stayed home and had the same “help” lol. (That particular stone took 56 hours of near steady pain to pass- then soon after one got stuck and needed medical intervention to get it out)

But point was, the emergency room was chockerblock full of folks who likely were using it as their own personal Healthcare system. I sat In a room for 6 hours before anyone even dropped in to see me. And from what I understand, that was mild compared to what some folks have to wait in inner cities


66 posted on 12/26/2021 9:48:25 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Qiviut

I can understand that and, better to use therapeutic rather than the shots. I’m still concerned about shots for elderly.


67 posted on 12/26/2021 9:49:31 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

They clearly are in need of emergency Mental Health treatment


68 posted on 12/26/2021 9:50:24 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Hojczyk

Why are the hospitals admitting people who have no symptoms???? Here’s how it should go:

“Hi I would like to come to the hospital I have COVID”

“Okay what are your symptoms?”

“I don’t have any”

“Then what the f*ck are you doing here?”


69 posted on 12/26/2021 9:53:09 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: gloryblaze

Part of it is because of this damn mandate…people have to test weekly if they don’t vax.

So yes, the “need” for tests never ends!


70 posted on 12/26/2021 9:53:41 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: the OlLine Rebel

I got Covid yesterday. I woke up with a fever and a sore throat and took a rapid antigen screening test. Positive. I had chills (couldn’t get warm) and slept a lot yesterday and 10 hours last night. Today I feel better and can taste my coffee and oatmeal. Happy to now have natural immunity (but sorry I missed seeing my relatives on Christmas Day.)


71 posted on 12/26/2021 9:54:19 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Hojczyk

You know this is it exposing a lot of people who have Munchhausen Syndrome.

“Oh help me! help me! I have COVID! Look at Me! Look at Me!”


72 posted on 12/26/2021 9:54:50 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Nifster

A lot of us simply don’t like the new and approved Trump changing his tune so drastically from just a few months ago, when he was calling the boosters a money making scam. Other precedents we don’t like being set when experimental mRNA gene therapies posing as vaccines are suddenly declared the one stop solution:

- Suppression of discussion and application of natural treatments, or existing and safe medicines originally developed for other illnesses

- Medications being pushed to market before traditional trials (we are seeing that now with these new pills too)

- Manufacturers being given 100% immunity to adverse reactions and damage claims

- Inference that infinite booster injections are superior to natural immunity function

- The changing of official definitions, such as to the word vaccine

You may not agree, but moving the discussion forward to only being about mandates or not, ignores these other, more foundational concerns.


73 posted on 12/26/2021 9:55:42 AM PST by Golden Eagle (What's in YOUR injection?)
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To: Hojczyk

Make the sniveling bastards wait…and wait…in the ER until they get tired of waiting and go home.


74 posted on 12/26/2021 9:55:57 AM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: Walrus

Good strategy—if you make them line up outside in the cold...

Of course then they would really get sick!


75 posted on 12/26/2021 9:59:45 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: Golden Eagle

Inoculations (which the mRNA is) is not a vaccine

If you would dump Trump because he had a hand in making the inoculations available is certainly your right. Enjoy what the dems give you


76 posted on 12/26/2021 10:02:35 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

All I suggested was that you speak about your doc

You can say what you want. My experience with health care professionals is far different than yours. They have a job to do according to local protocols. Their license and livelihood depends on it. The health care professionals I know are very compassionate. Families of sick patients demand many times unreasonable things


77 posted on 12/26/2021 10:05:44 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

If they’re not sick, why are they even testing themselves?


78 posted on 12/26/2021 10:09:35 AM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: Hojczyk

These people are not sick at all, so they should go about their business and avoid emergency rooms.


79 posted on 12/26/2021 10:12:15 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Hojczyk

Why go to the er if you have zero cold symptoms? Thanks for the mass hysteria media/governmet.


80 posted on 12/26/2021 10:13:46 AM PST by Trillian
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