curious feature of this pandemic that hospital emergency departments are unusually empty. An uptick in the number of pneumonia admissions has been more than balanced out by an enormous fall in the number of people coming in with other problems. “It is eerily quiet,” reports one emergency doctor. “You almost want it to be busy, so you feel all those preparations are useful.”NHS
, save lives”. But the message is intended for healthy folk, so that they should not transmit the virus, not for those who need treatment for non-covid illnesses. Doctors are concerned that people are staying away from hospitals so as not to add to the pressure on the health service or because they fear catching the virus.
This is not entirely bad. For one thing, the quiet has made reorganisation easier. And it is likely that some of the drop-off reflects a genuine decline in need. Many of the so-called “worried well” are now probably more worried by a trip to hospital than by their supposed illness. With more handwashing, it is little surprise that admissions for gastrointestinal illnesses have dropped. With pubs closed and roads empty, there are fewer accidents.
Yet the scale of the drop in admissions has alarmed medics. Before the crisis, the health service estimated that just one in ten emergency attendances were “non-urgent”, meaning treatment could have been provided by a general practitioner outside of hospital. Emergency departments are not just seeing fewer stomach bugs. There has been a sharp fall in the number of emergency admissions with cardiac problems. Forthcoming data will show that referrals for cancer diagnosis have plunged.
Could one, partial, explanation be that due to the fact that because pubs, bars and clubs are closed people are not going out to drink at the weekends and therefore not getting ill and having accidents? It has, in the past, been identified as a problem for A and E departments.
Many A&E depts are normally full of non emergency cases because they can't get GP appointments.
Same in most european countries.
They’re filling out forms online and on hold with some government bureaucrats somewhere
Wow! I thought they inundated with Eccono virus patients.
Virus danger keeps people safe, less injuries and less people gets other deceases. Always something positive in the bad!
StayHomeSaveLives looking more like the knee-jerk dumb soundbyte it always was huh? Like I said, when this is all over and proper accounting of what lockdown cost happens, will be lots of embarrassed quiet faces across the country. May even have an NHS left if we're lucky!
The country should provide more protective suits and masks for NHS staffs !
Sack chrislockwd NOW!!!! What a disgrace of a man he is!!!!
Tbf, less work related stress might explain fewer heart attacks, many commuters have just found they have an extra 2 hours a day to get ready for work on their laptops at home.
They are healthy because they are not out there getting infected and infecting others
The next world wide census will be interesting.
So many hospital ER's throughout the UK rooms have been empty for weeks now, people are being left to die at home from things other than this virus.
Interesting.. virus cases drop but heart attacks have extremely increased.
Everyone staying home means less likely to do activities which will uncover a cardiac issues. People not getting enough exercise will lead to more cardiac problems in the future. This isn't really a mystery...
Less pollution = better health Air pollution (AAP) and particulate matters (PM) have been closely associated with adverse health effects such as respiratory disease and cardiovascular diseases.
Less work, less stress. Makes sense really.
People dying at home? 🤔
Sodium phosphate. Dehydration. Lungs shut down. Hydrate your mussels Hy Dro Oximine, you have to ween off. Then go to a Monohydrate level like Creatine. Your have to repair the mussels moving. Hydration does that.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s because everyone is sitting on their couch?! Or... too afraid to go to hospital to wait 65 hours for a bed and possible catch The Rona. 🤷🏼♀️
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Yup. Feel on the ice 17 days ago. Finally went to ER yesterday for xrays. Tiny fracture on the elbow, small bone chip on the wrist. ‘Tis but a scratch. Requested no cast so I could keep washing my hands. In and out: 47 minutes.
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