re: Hospitals around the nation are seeing a 41% increase in non-covid mortality

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Sounds like the patients themselves are choosing to put off treatment because they're scared of infection. Seems like you're trying to make it sound like a poilicy was created that denied treatment to non-COVID patients.

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Likely this. Of course, I'm supposed to have another hernia surgery in my stomach because of past surgeries (this one is 2 inches above the naval); this will be my fifth one in six years. I'll just wait until it becomes strangulated, then I can blame COVID-19. As far as cancer treatments are concerned, I'm not sure what I would do. Of course, with my history, they could force me to stay in the hospital. When I had leukemia, I had to stay in the hospital during my entire chemotherapy treatment, but I'm not sure how viable that would be, and I really don't know how much safer it is. I still got infections and pneumonia, which extended my treatments (as in, delayed them, which extended my hospital stay). I missed all of second semester of school, and the summer, before finally returning to school in OCtober!