tcudoc
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In our place, the test is done preop for screening for elective surgeries. If positive, they are sent back home, having never entered the hospital, and asked to quarantine and the surgery is rescheduled for much later.I’m not an expert on the subject but I think part of the rise in hospitalizations can be attributed to the resumption of previously scheduled operations.. ie, patient comes in for a knee replacement, gets tested for covid while they’re there, tests positive, then gets counted as a hospitalized covid patient.
It seems the number of tests being done are greatly increased, but the positivity rate is also slightly increased. Still, many of the positive patients are asymptomatic or mildly sick. Hopefully, the surviving strains of the virus are now less virulent, as some have suggested.
I just read in the mainstream news that a survivor of COVID in Chicago ( I think) had terrible lung damage and just got a lung transplant. Supposedly, it went well.