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kimchifreeze t1_j1tcc33 wrote

Reply to comment by Intrepid_Objective28 in Beijing to distribute Pfizer antiviral drug as Covid wave strains health system by web_explorer

Part of the appeal of TCM is that it actually gets Chinese people to come in for health checks early about anything that's wrong with them.

Headache? They go to TCM and have it checked out.

If it's serious, they'll get referred to actual medicine. So in away, it's a cheap way to funnel people to where they need to be. Don't have to take expensive tests when all the patient needs is to drink plenty of fluids and take a nice placebo.

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Midziu t1_j1tyjzi wrote

This is an issue in some places where hospitals get crowded with people who have the flu. Doctors can't really help much, stay in bed is their diagnosis. But all those people who go to the hospital cause they have a runny nose just increase the wait times for everyone else...

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