Thread by @YossiGestetner

The rest deaths may have come in large part from the panicked reaction to the virus where lives were turned upside down in name of saving them. Covid-19 was here months earlier than thought. Why weren’t there massive deaths in the weeks before panicked policies were implemented?

https://twitter.com/drsanjaygupta/status/1404847569252098056

.@drsanjaygupta Coronavirus was here 8-10 weeks earlier than the mid-March 2020 moment that deaths started to rise. Why didn’t those early cases spread Covid like crazy due to no masks and no distancing with negative consequences felt within weeks? It took 2.5 months. Why?

.@drsanjaygupta We operated under the thinking that an infected person could spread the virus in a room hours after leaving it and it infect thousands who enter the same room. With this scale of spread and deaths happening within 2 weeks, why didn’t mass deaths start in Dec-Jan?

.@drsanjaygupta The more panic that was spread, the less access people had to doctors (due to lockdowns), so things that could have been addressed with medication (once the virus turned into something worse) ended up not being cared for which caused people to rush into hospitals.

You had a rush on hospitals by people that should have been cared for by local doctors a week or two earlier and a rush by panicked people who thought they can’t breathe but it was just panic from all the freak-meisters that scared everyone into thinking that everyone is dying.

.@drsanjaygupta The consequences of the rush at hospitals were compounded by the fact that many senior staff were out because, you know, everyone will get COVID-19 by simply being in the same building as an infected person, and a huge percent of elders will die. This left

patients in the hands of more junior staff who had less experience which is an issue on its own but they were so panicked that they left Coronavirus patients alone in their rooms for 12 hours or for a full day. Literally! Go speak with people who suffered this! I almost forgot:

.@drsanjaygupta Due to the panic, families were locked out of senior homes and hospitals. So in addition to staff letting patients alone for 12-24 hours or more, families were not at hand to help with non-medical items or to give comfort or to alert medical staff when needed.

If we close doctors offices every Oct-Nov; panic everyone into thinking that they are dying and causing a rush at understaffed hospitals with no access for family, the annual flu death count in the US could easily triple or worse. The reaction to COVID-19 caused many deaths!

.@drsanjaygupta Someone with 30 years active work in the medical field told me last year March, the one protocol that he would keep is not to change protocols! You can’t take 50-100 years of medical concepts and dump it because “there is so much we don’t know about COVID-19.”