Discussion about this post

User's avatar
D Zich, MD's avatar

I am an internist in Chicago. I am getting more Covid-positive calls in my practice than at any other time in the pandemic. I am somewhat surprised that this wave is not getting more attention, though I completely agree with your reasons why. Most of my patients are confirming their Covid status with home testing only so there is no good way to keep track of the numbers. Does it really matter what the numbers are? Because of Long-Covid and the yet-unknown potential for long-term disability, sadly, I think they do.

Expand full comment
Holli's avatar

We are basically living in two realities. One is in which life has returned to "normal" and COVID is seen as more of a catching a bad flu. Talking with friends, they are seeing in their local groups/lives people testing positive and getting out and about because they don't feel that bad, so the whole "quarantine" at home is out the window as well. The other is that in which people are proactively looking at numbers and making decisions on masking etc.

What is concerning is the long covid issues. There insurance companies were already reporting higher disability claims last year. The number of infections is so large, that long covid that impacts every day life will be relatively large and that is going to impact everything from employment to health care, to government benefits, to insurance rates increasing.

Expand full comment
58 more comments...

No posts