I see a lot of people just claiming covid literally is made up. That it doesn’t even exist. I understand that cases and deaths are greatly overstated. But one can’t deny that hospitals are quite overwhelmed right now.. how do you explain that? I know multiple hospital workers who all say the same thing, they are getting ransacked with covid patients
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I know something is odd about this latest influx of covid 19. As a medical professional working in the Emergency Department prior to the onset of the pandemic/through the pandemic/delta in three different counties in Florida, I can say this. At the end of June 2021, the number of covid cases that we were seeing daily in the ER was very low and sporadic. However, at the beginning of July 2021 something changed and out of nowhere covid was back with a vengeance! There was now a larger amount of covid patients coming to the ER and they seemed to be mostly of a younger age. When the pandemic first started last year mainly older adults were coming to the ER sick with covid. I do not know if this is true in all the counties of Florida. The surge is true in the counties I live in! But what changed? What’s causing it? The vaccines, the tests, or both?
But the real question is... did you see a lot of COVID patients before the VAX was given?
And do you see MORE since the VAX was given?
In the counties that I work in, the covid cases had been pretty steady since June 2020 up until earlier this year. That was essentially before the vaccines. However in Florida many people are moving here and also vacationing here since some of the country remained closed. I think this essentially kept the cases higher in Florida. After the vaccines were given to most people who wanted them, there was definitely a decrease in covid 19 patients coming to the ERs I work in. It was then sporadic. However there was a surge at the beginning of July 2021 and it continues and this is obviously still post vaccine. There are likely multiple factors responsible for the increase, but I believe it is something to do with the vaccine. Whether the vaccines don’t work at all, whether the immunity the vaccine gives you wears off, or whether the people who got the vaccine are mutating it and passing it to others or some combo of these I don’t know. Testing tents have closed around Florida and this is definitely bringing patients to the ER who now test positive for covid in the ER who normally would not have come to the ER!
Lastly, most of the people coming to the ER that have been admitted for covid-19 have not been vaccinated and are younger in general.