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Presumably severe includes some people who don’t need hospitalization. Some high risk patients can get new monoclonal antibody treatments that may prevent them from needing hospitalization. Some people are sent home from the ED with oximeters and told to come back if their oxygen saturation drops below a certain threshold and a doctor calls them everyday. Hospitals in hard-hit area have to be very judicious about only admitting patients who really need it so there may be some severe/high risk cases that are just closely followed as an outpatient.

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My grandma got severe covid and was sent home with oxygen tanks and other stuff. She's made it through thankfully.

Rural USA area hit hard.