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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the weekend there was an article that mentioned many of the rising covid hospitalizations here in AZ were not because of covid, but rather the people happened to have covid.  The people are asymptomatic, but testing positive when going in for the months long postponed non-emergency surgeries.

So yes, the person has a hospital bed.  And yes, they have covid.  But they're not in that bed because of covid.  I reached out to a couple of nurse friends to get the scoop and they both said they're busy, because there is a nurse shortage here, but it's not covid keeping them busy - I think NW hospital only has 3 covid patients total.  [/quote]

Here's that article:  https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-new-panic-lie-increased-coronavirus-hospitalizations-cases-southwest/?fbclid=IwAR3DSCbs8i-_8J5eP9echfBEUdhGoxzCUHz8ZbtcZYdg8eHY6hu9S3yG9yA

Will someone smarter than me read this and see if it's valid or makes sense?  [/quote]

I’m not an expert, but a healthcare worker on another thread said that 43% of the coronavirus patients in her covid ward were asymptomatic patients in for other procedures. Not sure where she is located. [/quote]

Doctors are evaluated on the outcome of patients after a procedure.  Why would a physician proceed with an elective procedure if the person might become more ill after the procedure due to COVID19 and result in bad outcome for both theatre t and measure of outcome that reflects badly on doctor due to death or long hospital stay. They woukdn’t so people screened positive are not having elective procedures. [/quote]

This sounds right to me. I know hospitals were in quite dire financial straits in many areas and had a lot of staff sitting around - would they make exceptions for that reason after a waiting period or similar to see if symptoms appear?  I have no idea.

However, I wonder how many of these are pregnant women (in for delivery), or injuries that require an immediate hospital stay? And labor and delivery has high patient  turnover- seems to me that could bump covid positive numbers up a fair amount at certain hospitals. And if the healthcare worker said 43% asymptomatic it seems PG women would be the age demographic this would be more likely..[/quote]

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