How healthcare failed to treat patients appropriately during covid
I am going to start with this graph. It shows the number of people who allegedly died of covid at the hospital, and who died at home. The graph also includes people who died of “all causes” at home, ER, and in the hospital. What you will notice here is that hospital deaths from covid were much greater than in any other setting. But look at how many people died of ALL CAUSE both in the hospital, in the ER, and at home?
These data points are from January 2020-April 2022. So they span the entire pandemic. First, I want you to note the number of ALL cause deaths versus covid deaths. All cause is SIGNIFICANTLY higher. From this data, we can reasonable extrapolate that if you died “on arrival”, that is highly likely death due to accident, overdose, homicide. That patient was typically coding in the ambulance or the medical chopper. Or they were found dead somewhere not in their home. Most people die in hospitals. That is expected for a multitude of reasons. Covid and otherwise. The numbers of deaths from nursing homes and hospice were fairly reasonable. The data points of most concern here are the number of people who died at home. There were more overall deaths AT HOME than at the hospital!!!!
I have a couple of possible hypotheses for that. First, the woefullly horrible way we treated covid when someone was sick in the first few days. Below is a discharge paper from the ER for a patient who went TO the ER with covid illness.
The “caution zone” and the “seek care” criteria here are scary. This discharge paper, simply put, tells people to stay home unless they are in great risk of going to the ICU or dying. Period. The caution zone does NOT tell people to seek care! Caution zone is “oh hey stay at home and keep monitoring”. There are a few things in the caution zone that *could* warrant staying at home and monitoring, such as fever over 100 (with a caveat that it does go down with ibuprofen or Tylenol) and feeling tired/no energy. BUT THE REST OF THOSE SYMPTOMS?!?!?! Those are “you better scoot your butt to the ER/Urgent care ASAP because you are NOT ok. Tachycardic? Dark cloudy urine and painful to “go”? Uh, that is severely dehydrated, UTI, urosepsis…….. trouble breathing and short of breath with pain to breathe? THAT is NOT a wait at home with “caution” moment. EVER!!!!!!
The “seek care” criteria are a patient who is in big big trouble. Chest pain, short of breath, confused, lips and nails turning blue?? Dear lord, those are call 911 level of problems! Those symptoms are ICU admit level of illness, and had they ALREADY been in the hospital when the “caution zone” symptoms happened, the “seek care” level could have been avoided, or they would have already been IN THE HOSPITAL being monitored for decompensation and we could have intervened much earlier.
Translating that ER paperwork to the graph above, it is no wonder so many people died of all causes at home. The level of “seek care” illnesses do not happen on day 1, 2, 3 of covid. Those happen day 7-14. Sometimes even later. A lot of times they happen after the body already CLEARS the covid virus itself and one would test negative.
The other thing to consider here with at home deaths is how many people died at home, of a sudden unexpected health event such as their spouse woke up and found them deceased in bed during their sleep. Or on the sofa during a nap. Or collapsed in the hallway and unable to resuscitate? Why did THOSE people die at home? Had they recently been vaccinated?
Healthcare has to be held accountable for why they set these deplorable standards and guides for when a patient should seek medical care for covid. There are multiple ways to treat covid in the early onset days, and there always has been. The medical community ignored it to make a profit off the fancy drugs the FDA and pharma told them to use. Sickening.