"Why were all the hospitals empty?" Now we know--and more dying from fear of the virus than from...
Say, ya know that "law of unintended consequences" I keep talking about? Here's yet another example:
Back in early April when the fear of the chinese virus and the lockdowns were ramping up to Peak Panic, doctors all over the country started noticing something...odd. And one, from a northeast state, had the gall to write an article about it.
The title was "Where have all the heart attacks gone?" The doc (and many others) had noticed that at a time when the Narrative should have had hospitals overwhelmed with virus patients, hospitals were nearly empty.
The huge field hospital set up in Central Park by Samaritan's Purse treated something like 20 patients. The Navy hospital ship docked in NY treated even fewer.
Why were the hospitals so nearly empty? The doc explained that part of it was that in fear of the virus, hospitals had cancelled all their elective procedures, which account for most of any hospital's revenue. But then he found something else: His hospital was getting almost no heart attack or stroke patients.
The trend wasn't a small one either: In a poll of heart specialists almost half of the respondents reported that they were seeing a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in admissions for heart attacks; about 20 percent reported more than a 60 percent reduction. (This is significant because supporters of The Narrative always explain away small effects as being due to random chance.)
The author was puzzled: What was causing the virtual absence of these patients?
Liberals/Democrats/Fauci had several possible explanations ready:
But the author of the Times piece had a worrisome theory: He thought it likely that people with serious heart problems or signs of stroke might be choosing to stay home and suffer rather than risk coming to the hospital--for fear of being infected with dread chinese virus.
Well now a new study from Denver confirms the earlier theory, with two remarkable conclusions: First was that more people may have died at home from untreated heart attacks or strokes rather than going to hospitals, because of fear of getting the virus.
But the second conclusion was even more stunning: The study found that due to more people choosing to stay home when they should have been going to the hospital, there were now more deaths from untreated heart attacks and strokes than from the virus!
A group of doctors at Denver Health Medical Center led by Brian Stauffer realized there was an easy way to track the number of people admitted to all area hospitals for heart attack or stroke, because there is only one ambulance service in the area. They found that the number of such calls to the EMS plummeted by almost half during the lockdown between March 29 and April 11. On the other hand, the number of reported cardiac deaths at home were 2.2 times higher in 2020 compared with averaged historical controls over the same two-week period (92 in this year versus 51 in the same period in 2019).
Someone--actually lots of people--noted that lockdowns would be hugely harmful, but your rulers knew better. "The Science is Settled," they bellowed. And now we have hard statistical data showing more people are dying by fear of catching the virus than by the virus.
Hey, it's the gift that keeps on giving, eh?
Back in early April when the fear of the chinese virus and the lockdowns were ramping up to Peak Panic, doctors all over the country started noticing something...odd. And one, from a northeast state, had the gall to write an article about it.
The title was "Where have all the heart attacks gone?" The doc (and many others) had noticed that at a time when the Narrative should have had hospitals overwhelmed with virus patients, hospitals were nearly empty.
The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for virus patients.I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are missing from our hospitals.
The huge field hospital set up in Central Park by Samaritan's Purse treated something like 20 patients. The Navy hospital ship docked in NY treated even fewer.
Why were the hospitals so nearly empty? The doc explained that part of it was that in fear of the virus, hospitals had cancelled all their elective procedures, which account for most of any hospital's revenue. But then he found something else: His hospital was getting almost no heart attack or stroke patients.
The trend wasn't a small one either: In a poll of heart specialists almost half of the respondents reported that they were seeing a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in admissions for heart attacks; about 20 percent reported more than a 60 percent reduction. (This is significant because supporters of The Narrative always explain away small effects as being due to random chance.)
The author was puzzled: What was causing the virtual absence of these patients?
Liberals/Democrats/Fauci had several possible explanations ready:
- "Why are you asking questions like this? The Science is Settled! So stop asking!
- "Say, you know that huge research grant you applied for? It'd be a shame if after you went to all that work, someone lost the paperwork, eh?"
- "Easy: The virus prevents heart attacks and strokes."
But the author of the Times piece had a worrisome theory: He thought it likely that people with serious heart problems or signs of stroke might be choosing to stay home and suffer rather than risk coming to the hospital--for fear of being infected with dread chinese virus.
Well now a new study from Denver confirms the earlier theory, with two remarkable conclusions: First was that more people may have died at home from untreated heart attacks or strokes rather than going to hospitals, because of fear of getting the virus.
But the second conclusion was even more stunning: The study found that due to more people choosing to stay home when they should have been going to the hospital, there were now more deaths from untreated heart attacks and strokes than from the virus!
A group of doctors at Denver Health Medical Center led by Brian Stauffer realized there was an easy way to track the number of people admitted to all area hospitals for heart attack or stroke, because there is only one ambulance service in the area. They found that the number of such calls to the EMS plummeted by almost half during the lockdown between March 29 and April 11. On the other hand, the number of reported cardiac deaths at home were 2.2 times higher in 2020 compared with averaged historical controls over the same two-week period (92 in this year versus 51 in the same period in 2019).
Someone--actually lots of people--noted that lockdowns would be hugely harmful, but your rulers knew better. "The Science is Settled," they bellowed. And now we have hard statistical data showing more people are dying by fear of catching the virus than by the virus.
Hey, it's the gift that keeps on giving, eh?
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