Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by nradov on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:22PM
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You're still not making any sense. The symptoms you describe wouldn't meet hospital admission criteria unless the patient had serious risk factors other than being unvaccinated. Hospital admission is primarily based on respiratory distress or blood oxygen saturation under 94%. A mild fever and cough can be managed on an outpatient basis. Ageusia is clinically irrelevant.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by listenallyall on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:34PM
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Perhaps, although that's assuming every doctor in every ER at every hospital in the country has the same minimum criteria. Somehow, I doubt that is the case.
Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by nradov on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:38PM
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What's your point? You might be able to find a few doctors who fail to follow the protocol but that has no measurable impact on the healthcare system.
It seems like you don't have any actual knowledge of how healthcare works in the real world and are just making things up.
Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by listenallyall on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:11AM
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Point is doctors are not robots, they enjoy a significant amount of autonomy, and I still believe that all other things being equal, many doctors are more likely to admit an unvaxxed Covid-positive patient than a vaxxed Covid-positive, because they believe that the unvaxxed patient has a higher risk of more serious symptoms.
Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by nradov on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:10AM
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So you have a belief, but no actual data or even anecdotes to back it up.
Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by listenallyall on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:24PM
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Nearly half of Omicron admissions released a day later. Did they magically recover overnight, or were they admitted with mild symptoms in the first place, just as a precautionary measure?
Early data from France suggests omicron patients leave hospital far more quickly - including 43 per cent in less than a day
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
(at Kaiser Permanente Southern California) Among 154 Omicron variant-infected patients who completed hospitalization by January 1, 2022, 129 (83.8%) were discharged in ≤2 days
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v...