While I don't disagree with you
it is really, really hard to establish a set of guidelines and have hospitals, doctors, etc. follow it to a T. Completely unrelated but apt example. My children were born at 28 weeks and we knew they were not going to make it to term, we had our pick of Loudoun County, Reston, or Fairfax hospitals. One of those hospitals has a whole wing dedicated to high risk pregnancies, over 120 NICU beds dedicated to premature birth. The other two no where near that kind of experience or capacity.
I can guarantee if you compared whatever metric you wanted to use in deliveries across just those 3 hospitals your numbers would vary wildly.
Point being yes I fundamentally agree with you the metrics could be better, but I also don't think the metrics are that far off, especially in the south where patients are being turned away and going 100s of miles to get a hospital bed or just outright dying.
At the end of the day the metrics due show vaccinated even if hospitalized are overall having mild symptoms and surviving. Those un-vaccinated best case scenario seems to be mild treatment in the hospital but significant increase in chances of ICU stay and/or death.
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Posted: 09/15/2021 at 11:31AM