Also, something I am not sure they are talking about on the news, since I am not watching it much, but this virus is unlike anything many of us in medicine have ever seen. Patients do not stay in the CCU on life support for 14 days with influenza. So you not only have all the current COVID (and other) patients, but new cases pouring in daily. Many in Oklahoma have to come to OKC or Tulsa because our rural hospitals do not have the knowledge/specialist/resources to handle these patients.
COVID is causing damage to multiple organ systems. Liver enzymes are elevating to extreme levels, cardiac enzymes are also shooting up, some patients are having bizarre rashes and of course the severe respiratory symptoms. We do not have any long term data to show what the long term health consequences of this virus are yet. We are learning so much every day, but the cases are coming in so rapidly, we are just doing our best to deal with treating the acute issue at hand.
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