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Yes, your friend had no hospitalization. We don't count people who see a doctor a few times and have long term side-effects as hospitalized from COVID, so in an apples-to-apples comparison the example of your friend should not go into that column. Here is the source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737 : > A total of 76% of cases of myocarditis were described as mild and 22% as intermediate; 1 case wa…
In that case, I'm wondering how valuable the hospitalization metric is. Someone can be incidentally hospitalized, and discharged with no serious long term issues, the ER is the only option for many non insured in the USA, while a life altering long term side effect may never result in hospitalization, but is something that should go into the risk profile of either catching covid or an adverse reaction to the vaccine.…
And if you show up to the ER they don't send you to a hospital bed, they don't have hospital beds to give out like candy these days. Even if you have a suspected heart attack (based on cardiac enzymes in your blood not just clutching at your chest acting like you're in a stage play) then you're still going to be waiting hours for a bed to open up. Someone with the sniffles isn't ever getting close to a bed.