Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: 'Mass casualty incident' (statistics, school)
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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the "national shutdown" aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."
The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse, and increases in financial instability that could lead to "[p]overty and financial uncertainty," which "is closely linked to poor health."
"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the doctors say in their letter. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."
600 actual doctors-but I'm sure the media will tell us not to listen to doctors and believe the bureaucrats instead.
You know, I wonder of my dance sisters who are pushing safety over the economy think about the rise in domestic violence in certain regions.
Unfortunately, I can't ask them that because in those forums, I am suppose to be the flighty one, concerned only with her cats, unicorns, and wildlife.
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Of course this is causing problems elsewhere!
How many people with special needs aren't able to visit their doctors and therapists? How many disabled people can't get the hands-on physical therapy that they NEED? Cancer patients going without screenings? Routine physical exams being shelved in favor of e-visits which may not find the kinds of stuff hands-on examinations may?
How many doctors are furloughed? Hospital beds sitting empty? Surgeries not being undertaken?
But it's OK. They can sacrifice for the 80 year olds. Much easier to shut down the whole country than just have the 80 year olds and chronic condition types STAY HOME.
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