Realistically if hospitals kept in everyone who could be discharged but they have covid they’ll run out of beds very soon.
It’s not clear, but is this suggesting that before now patients who didn’t need to be in hospital but were testing positive, were being kept in?
It doesn’t state it in the article but I assume they are talking about people in hospital for other reasons who incidentally test positive for corona. I guess they have protocols in place that make it administratively awkward to discharge them and it has snowballed with the omicron wave. All pretty daft as to actually get admitted into hospital ~~with~~ for covid, you need to be at death’s door.
Sounds like this ‘storm’ is being caused by them keeping people with a mild case of a covid in hospital for no particular reason. I’d have assumed it was obvious that if you’re well enough you should leave and free up space for the next person.
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Realistically if hospitals kept in everyone who could be discharged but they have covid they’ll run out of beds very soon.
It’s not clear, but is this suggesting that before now patients who didn’t need to be in hospital but were testing positive, were being kept in?
It doesn’t state it in the article but I assume they are talking about people in hospital for other reasons who incidentally test positive for corona. I guess they have protocols in place that make it administratively awkward to discharge them and it has snowballed with the omicron wave. All pretty daft as to actually get admitted into hospital ~~with~~ for covid, you need to be at death’s door.
Sounds like this ‘storm’ is being caused by them keeping people with a mild case of a covid in hospital for no particular reason. I’d have assumed it was obvious that if you’re well enough you should leave and free up space for the next person.