Warning, this turned out to be a rant.
And you'd be correct. I dont recall the number of young healthy people I saw that died. Id guesstimate it to be around 5-10, probably closer to 5.
This week has been a weird week. Its been relatively quiet for us lately on the covid front, butI've seen two postpartum mothers in their 30's go on life support within 24 hours of delivery. Both were unvaxxed and tested positive for covid. In fairness, I've seen women end up on life support post delivery before covid existed. I dont know if having covid or being unvaxxed played a role in their deteriorating condition. Postpartum cardiomyopathy existed long before covid came around.
I also saw a pretty healthy man in his 40's with a large clot in his heart. He was covid positive but vaxxed months ago. We know that any virus, but especially covid, has pro-thrombogenic effects in our bodies. So Im fairly certain the clot was related to his covid but again, he was vaxxed.
And I think the vaccines worked well for keeping people out of ICU's and alive. Butt Im not a statistician. Its hard to control for variables and account for co-morbidities when determining efficacy.
Especially in my shoes. All my opinions are skewed by what I see with my own eyes. I work at a large academic hospital that takes on the sickest patients in the Bay Area, so what I see will always be the worst. Maybe what I see is representative of the bigger picture, or maybe I see the 1-off cases that are rqrely seen anywhere else. I just dont know.
We've been operating at over 100% capacity for > than a year now, and I see it every night I go to work. Yet some yahoo went to 3 hospitals in San Diego and they weren't "any busier than normal"??? So I guess he went in, counted beds, counted patients in every untlit, knows their acuity levels as well as number of staff available to care for these patients. When determining % capacity, we actually use the limiting factor to determine what 100% is, sometimes its bed, other times its nursing staff.
After saying all that, I agree with a lot of what you're saying MM. I know you're well educated and well studied. We will disagree to some extent on whether vaccines worked or not but we both agree Im sure that neither of wants anymore covid vaccines, booster, etc.... I dont even want a flu vaccine. I want to enjoy watching my daughters group up in a semi-normal world where their biggest concern isnt putting a mask on every time they leave the house.
And you'd be correct. I dont recall the number of young healthy people I saw that died. Id guesstimate it to be around 5-10, probably closer to 5.
This week has been a weird week. Its been relatively quiet for us lately on the covid front, butI've seen two postpartum mothers in their 30's go on life support within 24 hours of delivery. Both were unvaxxed and tested positive for covid. In fairness, I've seen women end up on life support post delivery before covid existed. I dont know if having covid or being unvaxxed played a role in their deteriorating condition. Postpartum cardiomyopathy existed long before covid came around.
I also saw a pretty healthy man in his 40's with a large clot in his heart. He was covid positive but vaxxed months ago. We know that any virus, but especially covid, has pro-thrombogenic effects in our bodies. So Im fairly certain the clot was related to his covid but again, he was vaxxed.
And I think the vaccines worked well for keeping people out of ICU's and alive. Butt Im not a statistician. Its hard to control for variables and account for co-morbidities when determining efficacy.
Especially in my shoes. All my opinions are skewed by what I see with my own eyes. I work at a large academic hospital that takes on the sickest patients in the Bay Area, so what I see will always be the worst. Maybe what I see is representative of the bigger picture, or maybe I see the 1-off cases that are rqrely seen anywhere else. I just dont know.
We've been operating at over 100% capacity for > than a year now, and I see it every night I go to work. Yet some yahoo went to 3 hospitals in San Diego and they weren't "any busier than normal"??? So I guess he went in, counted beds, counted patients in every untlit, knows their acuity levels as well as number of staff available to care for these patients. When determining % capacity, we actually use the limiting factor to determine what 100% is, sometimes its bed, other times its nursing staff.
After saying all that, I agree with a lot of what you're saying MM. I know you're well educated and well studied. We will disagree to some extent on whether vaccines worked or not but we both agree Im sure that neither of wants anymore covid vaccines, booster, etc.... I dont even want a flu vaccine. I want to enjoy watching my daughters group up in a semi-normal world where their biggest concern isnt putting a mask on every time they leave the house.