Covid-19

AWP said:
Talking to my wife last night, she reminded me that our daughter, who works at a resort in CO, was really sick back around Nov/ Dec. (I think late Nov.). Fever, sore throat, cough, etc...docs tested for strep, flu, pneumonia...everything. They sent her home with an "undetermined flu" or something similar. This "flu" swept through her resort in a week, two max.

Dec., a friend of ours who works at Disney had her family down from NYC. The aunt is an ER nurse. Several of them had an "undetermined" flu though not everyone in the family seemed to be affected despite being in close proximity.

As this shit rages through NYC our friend's aunt is fine, the ER nurse with the undetrmined flu back in Dec.

We will never know when this really started in the US and any numbers we see in the upcoming years will be guesses.
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Similar situation here. Around Christmas / New Year just about every at the office plus their kids were sick with same symptoms. We actually went to fist-bumps instead of handshakes because of it. No telling if it was the beginning of this current strain or not.
 
AWP said:
Talking to my wife last night, she reminded me that our daughter, who works at a resort in CO, was really sick back around Nov/ Dec. (I think late Nov.). Fever, sore throat, cough, etc...docs tested for strep, flu, pneumonia...everything. They sent her home with an "undetermined flu" or something similar. This "flu" swept through her resort in a week, two max.

Dec., a friend of ours who works at Disney had her family down from NYC. The aunt is an ER nurse. Several of them had an "undetermined" flu though not everyone in the family seemed to be affected despite being in close proximity.

As this shit rages through NYC our friend's aunt is fine, the ER nurse with the undetrmined flu back in Dec.

We will never know when this really started in the US and any numbers we see in the upcoming years will be guesses.
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I've posted about it earlier in the thread. But it is likely that the actual "patient" zero was walking around Wuhan in October, and given how contagious we've seen this thing be, and the interconnectivity between Wuhan and a lot of the West via air travel it is likely this virus hit our shores at Thanksgiving or just after.

Cheap meds from China isn't our only source...Cheap meds from India. India has banned export of Hydroxychloroquine. We're going to need to force Big Pharma to have a significant but scalable capacity to product drugs here.
 
AWP said:
Talking to my wife last night, she reminded me that our daughter, who works at a resort in CO, was really sick back around Nov/ Dec. (I think late Nov.). Fever, sore throat, cough, etc...docs tested for strep, flu, pneumonia...everything. They sent her home with an "undetermined flu" or something similar. This "flu" swept through her resort in a week, two max.

Dec., a friend of ours who works at Disney had her family down from NYC. The aunt is an ER nurse. Several of them had an "undetermined" flu though not everyone in the family seemed to be affected despite being in close proximity.

As this shit rages through NYC our friend's aunt is fine, the ER nurse with the undetrmined flu back in Dec.

We will never know when this really started in the US and any numbers we see in the upcoming years will be guesses.
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Same same. We had four? Maybe five people in my department out of work mid-January for "influenza-like illness", who swabbed negative for flu and strep. Almost same symptoms as this.
 
Totentanz said:
Can't say this forum doesn't look out for one another.
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Age is an inevitably foregone conclusion. At least for those of us on this side of the dirt.

Notice I admirably refrained from defining his gender for him? I may be a boomer but I'm woke that way...

LL
 
Devildoc said:
We have 40-something staff out with it, and many times over on quarantine as PUI.

Our own in-house data-crunchers predicting our peak April 24-May 4. We are getting fuller with positives, but nowhere near full yet.
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Yesterday I was talking to a doc friend about the impact at his hospital. The actual virus impact here is pretty negligible in terms of infected, etc. He says this is pretty true for all hospitals in our area.

However, economic impact is huge. Hospitals make most of their money on elective procedures/surgeries, which are cancelled. Overall visits are way down. ER is quiet. The hospitals are hemorrhaging money.

Result? He's having to look at temporarily laying off 20% of his staff (and his is not elective based stuff). The problem is these aren't necessarily immediate rebound type activities for them..and it doesn't solve the funding flaw in their operating model.
 
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