People will die from overcrowded hospitals

But there will be fewer, because tens of thousands of Americans who could have been saved will die, writes the American magazine Atlantic.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that one of the worst fears of a pandemic is coming true: that hospitals will flood and cause unnecessary deaths. Americans dying from COVID-19 today would have survived if they had fallen ill a month ago.

Last Wednesday, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, there were 100,000 patients with Covid-19 in American hospitals. The nona mora pandemic, the shooting of the national hospital and the health system, reappeared after the first wave when the number of hospitalized was 60,000, according to the magazine.

Hospitals have become overcrowded, forcing them to be restrictive about who they receive and this has led to more Americans dying unnecessarily.

The current surge in hospitalizations began in late September and hospitals have been struggling for weeks with unprecedented demand for medical services.

The number of hospitalized patients is increasing almost daily. Since November 1, the number of covid-19 patients in hospitals has doubled and since October 1 it has tripled.

During that time, health workers worried that hospitals would soon become overcrowded. “The health care system in Iowa will certainly collapse,” an infectologist told the Atlantic in early November.

The following week, an intensive care physician in Nebraska warned, “The assumption that we will always have a hospital bed is wrong for you.”

This catastrophe appears to be on the horizon not only in Iowa and Nebraska but throughout the United States. The national collapse of the hospital system can now also be seen in the coronavirus data. For weeks, the number of people hospitalized with kovid-19 was about 3.5 percent of the total number of cases in the previous week. However, the number of cases in the total number of hospitalizations is now declining, the magazine states.

An average American with Covid-19 was admitted to the hospital today, probably sicker than someone with Covid-19 at the end of the summer. This is not because doctors and nurses have become more cruel, the Atlantic, but simply because they are running out of hospital beds and because the criteria for hospital admission must be stricter.

At the same time, the virus appears to have killed a higher net percentage of people diagnosed with Covid-19. Using a method that takes into account the decrease in data on the number of infected and dead, it was shown that in most of October and November, about 1.7 percent of infected people died. But in mid-November, that number jumped to more than 1.8 percent. While this change may seem small, it represents hundreds of deaths as more people get sick every day.

so the virus appears to be killing more people. And that makes sense. Many medical victories over the virus are the result of better care for Covid-19 patients. However, today a smaller proportion of people receive this more professional and conscientious care.

The first doses of the vaccine are expected to almost certainly reach Boi. Tens of millions of Americans could have immunity in eight weeks, and by the end of February, about 100 million Americans will be immune.

However, the quality of medical care will deteriorate in advance and patients who need patient beds for any other reason (a heart attack or a broken leg) will have a difficult time reaching them. Many people will suffer and die unnecessarily, warns Atlantic magazine.