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Dennis D.'s avatar

Doctors are just people who went to medical school, and often that was a long time ago. Like in all walks of life, some people are lifelong learners and others aren't. From personal experience, many doctors know less about the latest research on COVID effects and treatments than avid lay readers do. I was just told "don't bother with Paxlovid unless your symptoms are severe".

Hospitals are susceptible to lawsuits for hospital-acquired infections, but ONLY if it can be shown that they ignored protocols. That is the biggest driver behind several related realities:

* Reluctance of public health organizations to acknowledge airborne transmission and efficacy of masking

* Refusal of the CDC to create masking, air filtration, and isolation protocols that would open medical providers to liability if not followed

* Halting of COVID testing at hospital admission, where a negative test at admission would be damning evidence of HAI in court. Without it, plausible deniability.

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Lee Roberts's avatar

While I didn't work in health care, I was a teacher (mostly) from 1991 until 2019. Everything you say about hospitals applies equally or more so to schools. God only knows what struggling schools did with their air-quality mitigation money from the federal government. They probably bought cleaning supplies and paid teachers a smidgen more. None that I know of actually addressed HVAC problems.

COVID19 was the nail in the coffin of my career, not because I'm immunocompromised, because I have congenital hypertension and am not willing to jeopardize the uncommonly physically active life I enjoy in the out of doors when I'm not in classrooms. Selfish? You bet.

Thank you for saying so much so well. I'm only sorry that my early retirement budget for subscriptions is spent and it does not allow me to support your work directly right now.

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