Thank you. I posted something eerily similar (without the links, of course). I want you to know that I'm not parroting you.
Emergency room overloads have been explained away in other parts of the world as consisting of people who had been putting off medical examinations due to advice to postpone because of overloaded conditions during COVID-19 waves. The idea is that emergency rooms are where lots of people are going to get their symptoms diagnosed, but that doesn't make any sense, as that isn't where you go with a medical concern that isn't an emergency. Another idea is that the delays led to postponed diagnosis and treatment which caused an uptick in cases serious enough to require an ER visit. (This idea won't get much (or any) news coverage for obvious political reasons.)
Thank you. I posted something eerily similar (without the links, of course). I want you to know that I'm not parroting you.
Emergency room overloads have been explained away in other parts of the world as consisting of people who had been putting off medical examinations due to advice to postpone because of overloaded conditions during COVID-19 waves. The idea is that emergency rooms are where lots of people are going to get their symptoms diagnosed, but that doesn't make any sense, as that isn't where you go with a medical concern that isn't an emergency. Another idea is that the delays led to postponed diagnosis and treatment which caused an uptick in cases serious enough to require an ER visit. (This idea won't get much (or any) news coverage for obvious political reasons.)