There’s another problem not mentioned: the labs are laying off staff because there are not enough covid tests to justify the normal staffing levels.
My son is a medical courier and he told me 2 months ago how this was going to shake out. Many of us think that the high cost of an emergency visit to the ER is what funds the hospital, but we have it exactly backwards. It is everything else that hospitals do, that fund the emergency rooms.
Due to “non essential” medical being thwarted, it means these labs are not processing test for diabetes, meningitis, CANCER, heart problems, auto immune issues and all the rest. Hence the layoffs.
It may not matter how many tests you have, if there is no staff in the pipeline to run them.
My son is a medical courier and he told me 2 months ago how this was going to shake out. Many of us think that the high cost of an emergency visit to the ER is what funds the hospital, but we have it exactly backwards. It is everything else that hospitals do, that fund the emergency rooms.
Due to “non essential” medical being thwarted, it means these labs are not processing test for diabetes, meningitis, CANCER, heart problems, auto immune issues and all the rest. Hence the layoffs.
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Important info we’re *never* going to hear on the MSM as Dem Herr Governors virtue signal each other as to how long they can micromanage their states into an economic grave.
I have a friend who does IT works for a lab company. Same story. They let go most of the staff. However, they shifted over to COVID testing, which as he told me was not an easy proposition.