Noneduck
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Um, no. Emergency physician here in New Mexico. I worked last night and we admitted several critically ill Covid patients. We have admitted many many patients under 49, intubated some, and unfortunately some quite young patients have died in my hospital. We have doubled our ICU census, and the emergency department is getting close to pre Covid numbers.There little to zero risk of hospitalization for the 49 and under crowd, let alone death. Isolate the at risk, distance rationally, and open back up in a tiered fashion. No bars or restaurant level congregation til vaccine/herd immunity/etc. What's the problem?
Overall volume lower because elective surgeries were cancelled and people have been avoiding the ER like the plague, which is understandable, since it is riskier to be in a hospital for anyone right now. We are seeing the consequences of delayed care now, with ruptured appendicitis and people sicker than they otherwise might have been ore pandemic. But arguing that there is no problem because hospitals are not super busy is simply wrong. New Mexico had the highest number of daily confirmed positives yesterday, and that is with some of the strongest measures taken early by any state.