Hospital discharge rate

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Looking at Brazos County in particular hospital discharge rate seems to be 20% approximately 7 of 30 discharged today and been many discharged prior to that over the last week. Even back in April with 15 hospitalizations discharge of 10% or 1-2 a day was rare. What are the causes?

Better treatments?
People going into hospital sooner with less symptoms?
Strand less severe?
Something else?

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In reply to billydean05 • 1:26p, 6/23/20

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The demographics of the patients is likely the biggest factor.

In April the hospitalized tended to be older and more ill. Today the hospitalized are reportedly less skewed

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3:51p, 6/23/20

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Not in Brazos county, but I can confirm in my hospital we are seeing far fewer very old people and nursing home patients. Seems like at least where I live the nursing home folks who are going to get it have already gotten it and the relatively younger people are only staying in the hospital a few days on average. We still have two relatively young people on vents but in the overall scope of things that's a good thing.

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In reply to Not a Bot • 4:30p, 6/23/20

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Thank you for sharing your experience. It's so valuable to all of us to hear what the medical community is experiencing.

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In reply to billydean05 • 5:52p, 6/23/20

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billydean05 said:
Looking at Brazos County in particular hospital discharge rate seems to be 20% approximately 7 of 30 discharged today and been many discharged prior to that over the last week. Even back in April with 15 hospitalizations discharge of 10% or 1-2 a day was rare. What are the causes?

Better treatments?
People going into hospital sooner with less symptoms?
Strand less severe?
Something else?

We do know that there are people being admitted to the hospital for something unrelated to CoVID who are then being tested and counted as a hospitalized CoVID patient if found positive. Since they weren't being hospitalized for CoVID to begin with, stands to reason that they might be getting discharged quicker since most elective surgeries aren't going to he hospitalized too long. With a small sample size like you're talking about, just a couple of those would skew the discharge numbers.