I’d like to use some #popculture to highlight a truly awful, but yet-unmeasured impact of the current #COVID19 pandemic in the U.S.: restrictions on visitors to hospitals.
I’m currently reading Becoming by @MichelleObama. It’s fantastic.
Finished chapter 10 and...
...I couldn’t help but think of the countless people who've been robbed of this type of moment in their own lives because of COVID-19’s effect on hospital visitor policies. Perhaps it is just another unquantifiable tragedy in the midst of many in this pandemic...
...but I think it’s worth highlighting that the human costs of COVID-19 have and will go far beyond the mortality statistics, lost QALYs, etc. COVID-19 will also leave scars on many who never directly encountered the virus.
Just imagine if chapters 9 & 10 of #BecomingMichelle...
...instead finished with, “and s/he went into the hospital. Visitors weren’t allowed at that time due to the pandemic, so we tried to talk to on the phone, but s/he was too sick to talk. S/he never made it home.”
It's a heartbreaking scenario to even contemplate...
...but it's happening all across our nation today because we have thus far failed to fully contain and control COVID-19.
We must work together to #beatCOVID19 so we can put an end this and all the other uncounted COVID collateral damage.
#HumanismInMedicine
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