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Stressed by the numerous asymptomatic hypochondriacs you mean? [1]

I have no idea what these asymptomatic folks are wasting hospital resources for

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-covid-cases-t...

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The major hospitals in my (Top 10 American) metro area are currently doing patient "diversion." In practice, this means that they are not accepting most trauma patients, elective surgeries like cancer removals are being delayed, and patient care for non-Covid conditions is being impacted. This is primarily due to the hospitals being at/over capacity. These hospitals are not admitting hypochondriacs, the folks taking up the beds are sick and need to be hospitalized.

Which in turn is most likely due to bad policy rather than severe disease, e.g.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

I wonder if an irrational fear of COVID makes people lose all critical thinking skills.

Much of that article is about places with high vaccination rates. The experts quoted repeat that caveat a few times.

I do not live in a state or metro with high vaccination rates.

It's not "asymptomatic hypochondriacs". "Hospitalized with no symptoms" mean they're in the hospital for other reasons and just happened to test positive.

Although, even vaccinated people hospitalized "for covid" at the moment are mostly there for things like dehydration, similar to the flu.

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