Mortality displacement means some survivor displacement from hospital to primary care.
It seems that everyone we know is either sick, was recently sick, or has family who is ill. The headline-grabbing worry is that hospitals will again be overrun, a real potential in a world where simple public health measures are seen as infringements on our rights; where vaccine uptake is pathetically low; and where it is as easy to be exposed to misinformation as it is to contract a respiratory-borne illness.None of us ever want to see a return to the nightmare days of lines of waiting ambulances and refrigerator trucks laden with the dead outside our hospitals. At Northwell, we had more than 3,400 hospitalized patients with COVID at the height of the pandemic in April 2020. Today, while it’s higher than it’s been for a while, it’s at a more manageable number, just below 500. However, there is a real crisis: Primary care is buckling under the strain of this season of illness.
Pandemic Reasoning: “We are obviously in a different place and a much better place.“
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Mortality displacement means some survivor displacement from hospital to primary care.
