My Doctor husband came home crying yesterday

[Anonymous]

God bless your husband and all the healthcare workers.There has been an unpardonable delay in getting equipment but I still believe it will be coming. Hold tight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, would they be able to use the N95 masks? Amazon has them, I can donate some.

They now might be able to use them, but before the past few days, they were prohibited from using those masks per Federal law.

Link?

And this was the NYT spin on it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/masks-china-coronavirus.html

[Anonymous]

The Hopkins coronavirus map shows 71 positive cases in the district and another 107 in Maryland and 105 in Virginia. Are we really overwhelmed already?

[Anonymous]

My spouse is a nursing home administrator. Every day we talk about the precautions and the incredible fear that Covid-19 will hit their residents. I hear how families are mistreating staff when they are told of the new visiting policies (end of life patients only can have visitors and even that is quite limited). I hear how they are trying to come up with ways to store bodies if they start to experience deaths as a result. I hear how they are terrified of cross contamination from staff that take shifts in other facilities. And, probably like your husband, OP, they have been preparing long before anyone even admitted there would be a crisis.

At this point, we've separated. I have the kids and we are not staying together. At least that way, we aren't risking being responsible for sharing the virus. Even with social distancing, there are risks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, would they be able to use the N95 masks? Amazon has them, I can donate some.

They now might be able to use them, but before the past few days, they were prohibited from using those masks per Federal law.

People can change lows. Gift from God.

[Anonymous]

Saw an interview on MSNBC / Rachel Maddow show last night Make sure your husband is putting clothes in laundry (his clothes can be washed with families), showering etc before greeting family to prevent it from being spread to family when he gets home per expert in virology

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday my co-worker said his wife, a nurse at a hospital in Fairfax County, said she said nothing is happening there yet.

Still calm before the storm at Hospital where my dh works as well. I suspect op is one of the dcum trolls trying to whip up hysteria.

For every story like OP’s, you can find one where another doctor thinks it’s not too bad. It is what it is.

False.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Hopkins coronavirus map shows 71 positive cases in the district and another 107 in Maryland and 105 in Virginia. Are we really overwhelmed already?

Because we can't test!! The true estimate is probably 100x times that.

[Anonymous]

OP it sounds like your DH is exhausted and overworked - and is therefore reacting more severely to what he anticipates is going to happen. Your title was a bit misleading. I was expecting for you to say that the dead are beginning to pile up, which is not the case YET.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw an interview on MSNBC / Rachel Maddow show last night Make sure your husband is putting clothes in laundry (his clothes can be washed with families), showering etc before greeting family to prevent it from being spread to family when he gets home per expert in virology

OP here. Yes, we have been doing the following routine for the last 2 weeks:

1) Dr. spouse comes home, takes off clothes in mudroom. Clothes go into trash bag to go right into washer on hot water, only wash spouse's clothes by themselves, two washes.
2) Spouse washes hands
3) Spouse showers
4) Spouse puts on clean clothes and surgical mask
5) Spouse wears mask and stays 6 feet away from all of us
6) Spouse sleeps in own room/has own bathroom
7) Spouse goes to bed for the night at 8 pm because he's so stressed and exhausted these days

[Anonymous]

Why do people refuse to believe doctors?!

They are not the enemy here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like your DH is exhausted and overworked - and is therefore reacting more severely to what he anticipates is going to happen. Your title was a bit misleading. I was expecting for you to say that the dead are beginning to pile up, which is not the case YET.

Why is her title misleading? Her DH came home distressed and crying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like your DH is exhausted and overworked - and is therefore reacting more severely to what he anticipates is going to happen. Your title was a bit misleading. I was expecting for you to say that the dead are beginning to pile up, which is not the case YET.

Oh fck off

-another spouse of a dr

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Hopkins coronavirus map shows 71 positive cases in the district and another 107 in Maryland and 105 in Virginia. Are we really overwhelmed already?

Because we can't test!! The true estimate is probably 100x times that.

Hopkins has its own test. Maryland is testing about 400 people a day, give or take at this point. And 90 percent of the tests are negative, so no, it isn’t 100x that,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Hopkins coronavirus map shows 71 positive cases in the district and another 107 in Maryland and 105 in Virginia. Are we really overwhelmed already?

Because we can't test!! The true estimate is probably 100x times that.

Hopkins has its own test. Maryland is testing about 400 people a day, give or take at this point. And 90 percent of the tests are negative, so no, it isn’t 100x that,

Source? 400 tests per day is not what I’ve heard