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by cogman10 1766 days ago
> What is a covid patient? One that tested positive and is in the hospital for something else? Or one that is actually sick from covid? Because absolutely none of these articles I read clarify that tidbit and it is very important.

The stories on the reddits I suggested are all pretty much the same. Patient comes in struggling to breath, tests positive for covid, ends up with blood clots or pneumonia which pushes them into the ICU.

Here's just one of many stories of burnout [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/p9ps06/the_burn_ou...

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Those are anecdotes not data.
Clearly.

> So, the anecdotal evidence would be...

I'm not trying to represent it as anything other than that.