Ah, facts and accurate terminology are pesky. I wonder if the author of the article:
- Is a doctor
- With a PhD ontop of the medical degree
- Who works in an ER setting
- and is able to specifically know and understand what the word pandemic means
... In the context of a blog post about ER throughput.
Let me just check for a second and, oh look at that: the author is all of those four points.
It is very much still a pandemic, if for some reason you do not believe that.
Otherwise I have to assume you are rejecting the entire article because you do agree it's still a pandemic, but for some reason can't picture why long term effects of COVID may have a relationship to hospital presentations and complexity of cases.
- Is a doctor - With a PhD ontop of the medical degree - Who works in an ER setting - and is able to specifically know and understand what the word pandemic means
... In the context of a blog post about ER throughput.
Let me just check for a second and, oh look at that: the author is all of those four points.
COVID infected huge numbers of people, and variants of it continue to reinfect. Long term problems exist in a significant number of people - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
COVID has not magically vanished: https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-networ...
It is very much still a pandemic, if for some reason you do not believe that.
Otherwise I have to assume you are rejecting the entire article because you do agree it's still a pandemic, but for some reason can't picture why long term effects of COVID may have a relationship to hospital presentations and complexity of cases.