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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Last month, my youngest in Brooklyn had a friend return from Japan. He got sick and a week later she had a fever, massive headache and malaise that lasted 3-4 days. As she was on the upswing, she got laid off.

I sent her the link for the Mt Sinai ???plasma/serum??? study they’re doing and she hopes she can help but that means riding the train into Manhattan, which is putting her off.
 
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 was sicker than a dog the first full week of December. Stayed home 3.5 days, something I never do. Full body aches, chills/sweats, severe vaginitis, and a hacking cough. My wife, who gets sick when the cat farts, didn't get sick at all. I know other people who were also sick the first half of December, but there were lots of different symptoms. I even remember commenting on how weird a flu season it was, what with so many people having so many different symptoms.

I think this means I am now immune to the coronavirus.
 
White House Covid Presser 4/6/2020 (Starts at 1:12:08)

@ 2:38:10 POTUS talk about the letter incident caused by the Captain of USS Roosevelt, he even talks about Crozier's service record and rise to command.

Add on: I've set these videos to start as POTUS and company take the podium. If that doesn't work, the time the presser starts at will be listed above the video.

Correction: Mistook the Roosevelt for the Ford. Apologies.
 
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NC stats: 3,251 cases, 354 hospitalized, 53 deaths.

My institution (as of 0500 today): tested more than 3,854 patients, with 281 positive results; have also tested more than 1,700 health team members with 67 positive.

My institution's cracks: we are getting PPE from different vendors, and not all if it looks the same, so staff are freaking out. We are rounding trying to put out fires and re-educate. Also, guidelines of use/re-use based on availability changes every other day, so we are constantly teaching new procedures for cleaning, storing, what gets tossed, what gets saved. Another huge crack: we have a command center, but have not instituted a HICS plan, so we have a bunch of chiefs sending out contradictory info. My boss asked me to not go back to the command center because I showed my ass about unity of command and failure of communications.

We've all been burning the midnight oil putting in 60, 70, and 80 hour weeks, so my department is going to start rotating staff to 'work from home' (i.e., take care of yourself, hand off assignments, etc) and being at work.
 
Devildoc said:
We've all been burning the midnight oil putting in 60, 70, and 80 hour weeks, so my department is going to start rotating staff to 'work from home' (i.e., take care of yourself, hand off assignments, etc) and being at work.
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That's good to hear. Worn out bodies equals diminished ability to fight.

Take care of yourself, Brother....
 
Devildoc said:
My institution (as of 0500 today): tested more than 3,854 patients, with 281 positive results; have also tested more than 1,700 health team members with 67 positive.
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Are you seeing any correlations between risk factor, age, lifestyle, etc and hospitalizations?

Separately, this thread is an interesting read of a coupl’s experience with COVID.

Thread by @MaggieAstor: My husband and I are recovering from COVID-19. We’re getting better. But it’s taken more than two weeks to say that, and that was with the “…
 
lindy said:
Are you seeing any correlations between risk factor, age, lifestyle, etc and hospitalizations?

Separately, this thread is an interesting read of a coupl’s experience with COVID.

Thread by @MaggieAstor: My husband and I are recovering from COVID-19. We’re getting better. But it’s taken more than two weeks to say that, and that was with the “…
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Back in the early days I knew one of our docs who had it; he said he thought it was "just allergies" until he got a "mild" fever, which you don't get with allergies. He was fine in 4 or 5 days, back at work. He is the anomaly. Most people I have seen, talked to, or followed, it's kicking their asses.

As for hospitalizations, definitely older and with (usually) respiratory or cardiac disease. I think we have around 20 hospitalized. None of the staff have had to be hospitalized.
 
Reports are out that China was cremating live people during the pandemic. Ashes given to the grieving also mismatched, lends credibilty to the rumors that bodies were being stacked on top of each other.

China Mourns Dead as Wuhan Families Deal With Mass Cremations

Add on: WTF!? Watch the reaction of the cab driver and the vehicle behind him, when the bombshell hits. Also check out the lady's rising inflection when asked if there was was anything that could have been done to save the other patients.

(Edit: Added youtube link instead of facebook and a second article)
Chinese woman describes Wuhan virus patients ... | Taiwan News
 
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