Perhaps the Vax Is Causing It: Blood Clots? Check. Heart Issues? Check. Immune system damage?
Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms (Delays cause blood clots? Umm…how about, god forbid, an experimental mRNA vax?) Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among others.
“We are hearing from members in every part of the country,” says Dr. Lisa Moreno, president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). “The Midwest, the South, the Northeast, the West … they are seeing this exact same phenomenon.”
Although the number of ER visits returned to pre-coronavirus levels this past summer, admission rates, from the ER to the hospital’s inpatient floors, are still almost 20% higher. That’s according to the most recent analysis by the Epic Health Research Network, which pulls data from more than 120 million patients across the country.
“It’s an early indicator that what’s happening in the ED is that we’re seeing more acute cases than we were pre-pandemic,” says Caleb Cox, a data scientist at Epic.