As cases climb in the U.S., focus remains on the sickest and the nation's overstretched hospitals and health care workers, but many others are suffering at home and discovering mild COVID to be a major disruptor.
"If you're not sick enough to go to the hospital, there is a tendency to fill some of those roles," he added."The majority of the treatment of mild to moderate COVID is aimed at relieving symptoms," added Bhatt, an internist and geriatrician.Elderly people or anyone with existing conditions -- diabetes, obesity, asthma, heart failure, chronic lung disease and HIV among them -- should contact their physicians immediately upon having even mild symptoms, Bhatt said"Those are things that then put people in the hospital," Bhatt warned