I just sent a guy back to the hospital who spent a month there. Nonsmoker, 50 year old healthy male. He spent a month in the hospital with COVID Pneumonia. His lungs are trashed, he was sent home on 5L of Oxygen. When he saw me I diagnosed him with a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). He had to go back to the hospital and be readmitted to the ICU. This was caused by COVID.
He never got vaccinated.
Another guy wanted me to prescribe him hydroxychloroquine even though he has COVID with very mild symptoms (sniffles, sore throat, etc). I said that that medicine is useless and I'm not in the business of treating people with garbage. I told him that if he wanted to do something meaningful, he should have gotten vaccinated. He said he will "never" get vaccinated. I could read his political stripes just through this interaction.
There are morons everywhere. But the vaccine is the single most important thing we have. The people who are still scared after vaccination and boosting are equally moronic. They need to be shaken from this mass delusion as well.
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