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Gerd Eysser
COVID is not a hoax. There are health, political and financial aspects to it though. If you look at COVID in totality through that prism, you’lll see it exhibited with focus on the different aspects at different times.
Having worked in the clinical documentation, infection control and antimicrobial stewardship for the last 12 years before retirement, I see that all those components come into play with this pandemic.
COVID in it’s currrent form will mutate over time. As much as we try to kill those microbes off, they will mutate to survive. They are a living organism wishing to live. Even the common flu hasn’t been eradicated.
When COVID was first identified and introduced, the pendulum was clearly focused on the health aspect. It didn’t take long for politics to enter. One side blamed China, the other side, the president. Blue states were more inclined to shut down their states, the red states not so much. College football took a hiatus in blue states, blaming it on Trump. Red states carried on. All using the same data to back them up.
Then the hospital financial component entered. Hospitals are largely reimbursed based on inpatient “diagnostic related groups’ , with or without ‘comorbidities and complications (CC’s)’. That can make a difference of 50% additional reimbursement. Add the additional 20% that the feds added to that reimbursement because of COVID and you can see how it all adds up. The CDC used the terms ‘suspected’ or ‘probable’ in order for hospitals to bump non-CC to CC diagnostic codes.
Contact tracing is one of those things you shake your head at. So if you are within 6 feet of someone who was tested positive, for 15 minutes, you need to quarantine for 14 days. So if you were only with that person for 10 minutes, you don’t?
So, in the meantime, wear a mask where requested and wash your hands often. You should be just fine.
On a side note, in a normal year, the mortality rate in nursing homes is 31%. They are definitely high risk. Even patients that were on hospice, that had tested for COVID we classified as COVID deaths.
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HERES ONE FOR THE BOOKS THIS GUY HAD A FULL SIZED SKELTON SITTING ON A CHAIR ON HIS FRONT PORCH. WITH A SIGN AROUND HIS NECK. SAYING PLEASE WEAR YOUR MASK, SO YOU DONT END UP LIKE I DID!!
I WAS TALKING TO MY DAUGHTER IN LAW THE OTHER DAY. SHE IS A NE Q NURSE. EVERY ONE SEEMS TO THINK (WHO SHE HAS TALKED TO) THAT C-V-19 IS A HOAX AND IT WILL DISAPPEAR AFTER THE ELECTION!!!!! WONDER WHY IT IS STILL AROUND?
