Dr. Dan Erickson of Accelerated Health Care talks about the impact of the coronavirus on Kern County.
Now that some actual data is available, better conclusions can be made. These doctors discuss:
-Review of COVID data: test results, recovery and death rates for their county (Kern Co, CA), NY state, US, Sweden, and Norway.
-Conclusion is that COVID is similar to flu and continued sheltering-in-place isn’t necessary. The virus is widespread, but the death rate is extremely small (less than 1%) and those dying have co-morbidities
-There are risk associated with sheltering-in-place that are significant: abuse, alcoholism, suicide, unemployment, etc. Many medical personnel are furloughed.
-They review how the immune system works; sheltering-in-place weakens the immune system
-Was the initial response reasonable? Yes, given it was a new virus. Now that the data is available, continued sheltering-in-place isn’t good.
-People’s immune systems will now be weakened so there will be illness once our society is opened up again. Accept it and move forward. Learn from this situation and know that sheltering-in-place isn’t the appropriate response.
-Quarantine the sick and protect those at risk (elderly, sick, and immune compromised).
Via Herschel
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