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Along with holiday travel, we might expect a bump in the numbers of illnesses due to COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. While cases are relatively low at the moment, Michael Hoerger, director of the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative , estimates through modeling that about 1 in 118 people in the U.S. are actively infectious with Covid. Travel will spread infections widely.“If gathering with 10 people for the holiday, know there's about an 8% chance at least one person would have Covid if no testing/isolation,” Hoerger tweeted.Surviving a hospital stay is increasingly difficult, given staffing cuts and changes in practice patterns over recent years. I wrote about this some years ago and felt a need to update this based on recent months acting as a patient advocate for two of my dear friends.

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DF1 developed fatigue, shortness of breath, and weakness. She is in a managed care system, which presents unique problems. Many companies have such systems, including Highmark Health, UPMC, Intermountain Health, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, and Kaiser Permanente. These vast corporations share one thing in common. They all work by giving patients a primary care doctor who acts as a gatekeeper for access to specialists and some expensive testing.

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