> people said they wouldnt visit hospital if they were having a heart attack or stroke because they were afraid of covid
People avoiding hospitals because of COVID is an effect of COVID.
People avoiding hospitals because of COVID is an effect of COVID.
No, its not. It’s an effect of the perception that hospitals provide an elevated risk of catching COVID plus some desire to avoid hospitalization given the COVID control measures in hospitals. (There's also some effect that isn't avoidance but some services actually cancelled at hospitals due to actual or anticipated COVID caseload or as part of control measures.)
> COVID is still with us
True.
> and people have stopped avoiding the hospitals
No, they haven't, though that's dropped from the peak and widespread use and awareness of telehealth services (which stabilized at a nearly 40× the pre-pandemic utilization rate) may mean that less of that avoidance of hospitals and other medical facilities is avoidance of medical services entirely.
I'll be very brutally honest here though. This covid stuff, I see a lot of people dying and a lot of money changing hands and a lot of... unclear things happening very fast all around us. It rather bothers me. Whenever this USA nation has a crisis the opportunists seem to rise out of nowhere to exploit it, and the common man suffers.
I laughed with her then. I don't anymore.