Hospitals are often very full, long before all of this. Both my son and I have had to spend up to 48 hours waiting in the halls before being admitted or taken to another hospital. My son was once triaged in the ER waiting area with a severe head injury and barely able to walk and was sent home. He has epilepsy and several brain injuries, so new head injuries are especially dangerous. He had to give his Social Security number and other private info with people all around who could hear everything.
Those of us who are chronically and/or terminally ill have been avoiding all hospitals, doctors, tests, labs, etc. I have a patient's org so I know thousands of ill/disabled people. We usually only go to the hospital if we're very near death. I have a ton of MRIs, labs, tests, specialists, etc., I need to do/see, but am postponing as long as possible.
That poor paralyzed guy in the article, he could die from infection. My last hospital stay was awful, I could hear people screaming and crying all night. Welcome to 3rd world health 'care'.
You think so? I don't. The majority of us who are chronically and/or terminally ill have stayed home. It's very unlikely the author would've found people who DIDN'T go to the hospital. Many of us have progressive conditions, which also worsen with aging. We want to stay alive and aren't going to go anywhere near a hospital filled with covid patients.
Down vote me, but covid is very real, regardless of where/who it came from. No other flu leaves people with chronic and serious conditions, especially with the unusual ones of long covid. My sister, who was extremely active and fit, got covid in Feb, 2020, in Seattle, before it hit the nursing home here in March. She coughed and was very sick for 3 weeks. I kept telling her she had it.
When she and her boyfriend (who had it, too) were tested, it showed no antibodies, so I'm not a believer that antibodies are a deterrent or long lasting. People have gotten covid more than once, without being vaccinated. She has long covid and had to quit a job she loved.