I caught a bit of N-TV news (commercial news in Germany) today. So the topic came around to a discussion by AOK (a major German insurance company) on Covid-19 people who've entered the hospital....wrapped up their stay, and statistical data.
AOK says (no reason to doubt them)....a quarter of the ICU folks who are successfully released (meaning of the total group who survived the visit)....ended up at a later time back in the hospital for a second visit.
Some of the second visits were for neurological reasons....some were for breathing issues.
So, here to a statistic which is a bit unsettling....roughly 30-percent of the folks got taken into the hospital....if you counted first visits, second visits, or just time after the first release....ended up dead.
Then you get to the 80 or older crowd....their survival rate ended up being 50-percent (if you count both the hospital visit and the period after discharge.....going up to six months).
This coming from hospitals? No....from the health insurance companies themselves....who have to collect statistical data to project cost, and pay for services.
I will note this....German hospitals don't usually discharge you until you are 100-percent ready to go home....so these people who were given the green light weren't marginally healthy and just relapsed a day or two later. You can probably expect that they were in pretty good condition to make it on their own at home.
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