This has been bothering me for a week now.
Customer calls,needs work done to his car at his house. Tells me hes got alot going on cuz his mother in law is coming home to die. She went in for a heart surgery. They found white spots on her lungs and asked if she had covid. She said she had a couple months ago. They told her they cant operate because she had covid and sent her home to die. Unfortunately she didnt even make it home to go with dignity and family.
Anybody heard of this? Why would having recovered from covid prevent a life saving surgery??
It was an article in my local paper this morning about an international study, 116 countries participated. Up to two weeks after Covid risk of dying was 4,1%, normal is 1,5%. After that the risk decresed.
It had to do with less lung capacity. Unfortunately there were no good search words in the article, like who conducted it.
It's true. Perioperative death rates are higher if one has COVID. American College of Surgeons recommends holding off elective surgeries until after the infection passes. The studies we looked at last summer when they made the recommendations were Chinese and some Korean ones (I think)