The many stories about people getting sick made me do a quick data-gathering.
It is really difficult to get dependable and actual data about sickness levels, but I think I found an indicator that is valuable. The Netherlands has a website with the waiting times for healthcare (https://www.zorgkaartnederland.nl/wachttijden). The data are actualized almost daily. They are published since August 2021 and regularly I download them and put them in a spreadsheet so I can compare and see the trends.
I added todays waiting times in my document and these are the findings: - The latest data show that the waitingtimes are rising all across the board. - For medical specialists the waiting times are at all time highs for specialists in children, eyes and rheumatism. - For diagnostic research (CT-scan, MRI, X-ray etc) the waitingtimes are for nearly ALL of them at all time high. - For ablation (heart arrythmia) the waitingtimes are rising again. This is strange as earlier this year (till end of March) the waitingtimes were trending down. Dotting and cardiac catheterization are also rising.
Especially the third finding concerns me. There are apparently a lot of people who are not well.
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branchandroot
Sickness prevalence
Date: 2023-05-24 09:58 pm (UTC)It is really difficult to get dependable and actual data about sickness levels, but I think I found an indicator that is valuable. The Netherlands has a website with the waiting times for healthcare (https://www.zorgkaartnederland.nl/wachttijden). The data are actualized almost daily. They are published since August 2021 and regularly I download them and put them in a spreadsheet so I can compare and see the trends.
I added todays waiting times in my document and these are the findings:
- The latest data show that the waitingtimes are rising all across the board.
- For medical specialists the waiting times are at all time highs for specialists in children, eyes and rheumatism.
- For diagnostic research (CT-scan, MRI, X-ray etc) the waitingtimes are for nearly ALL of them at all time high.
- For ablation (heart arrythmia) the waitingtimes are rising again. This is strange as earlier this year (till end of March) the waitingtimes were trending down. Dotting and cardiac catheterization are also rising.
Especially the third finding concerns me. There are apparently a lot of people who are not well.