COVID risk if caregiver spent 3 hours in ER

[Anonymous]

More info is definitely needed. I went to children’s national for a covid test (full disclosure I’m 20, DCUM is my guilty pleasure) with symptoms and they had me in the main ER waiting room just seated far away from everyone else. Definitely ask if it was crowded!

[Anonymous]

Depends on how many people she was around. She's not going to get it from touching something in that environment (because they clean often and because she seems cautious). So it would be a matter of, was she in a crowded room with others with symptoms?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a similar situation. My understanding is that the risk of COVID was very small BECAUSE people are wearing masks, practicing certain protocol in a strict sense. That is v different than what you might see in a bar.

It's funny that you think sick, elderly people are more compliant with masks than drunk young people. They're not. They think they need to pull down the masks to talk, which is obviously the exact opposite of what you should be doing.

OMG - why do they all do this? I see this all the time!

I saw someone at the grocery store the other day pull their mask down to peer at an item on the shelf, almost like the mask was sunglasses?!?

I have some masks (w/out nose wire) that hit just below my eyes so that I look down it's hard to see. So if I happen to have pulled one of those out of the mask basket by the door I have to pull it down slightly to be able to see. But still well above my nose of course.