CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEW MEGA THREAD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop with the testing complaints. We will have millions of tests available in the next 1-2 weeks.

Stop with the reality denial.

We have test rationing right now.

If we had tests in Feb, as the Ebola czar was calling for, and as the CDC normally would do if not muzzled,
we’d have avoided the worst of the lockdowns.

You’re here at home today because our government failed.

You can get tested. You have to be aggressive. A YOUNG friend was denied testing at a Virginia hospital because they said her fever was "too low". She was aggressive about it and got tested. She has it.

out of curiosity, was she admitted to the hospital or discharged to recover at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a coronavirus. It has a mortality rate of at least 1%.
MERS is a coronavirus. It has a mortality rate of 20-30%.
SARS is a coronavirus. It has a mortality rate of 15%.

This is not a flu. A flu is the influenza virus.
The seasonal flu has a mortality rate of 0.1%.
The 1918 pandemic flu had a mortality rate of 2%.

Left is a coronavirus (CoV) spike protein. Middle is an influenza spike protein.

These are different viruses. This is a coronavirus.

Also worth mentioning -- the current coronavirus has an R0 of 2-2.5, which means it is much more contagious than flu. And, because it is so contagious, it infects more people, which means, more hospitalizations, which can overwhelm the hospital care system, and when this happens the mortality rate can be significantly higher. In addition, about 20% of coronavirus patients end up hospitalized which is about 10 times more than the flu where typically only 1-2% of the cases end up hospitalized.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/20/815408287/how-the-novel-coronavirus-and-the-flu-are-alike-and-different

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop with the testing complaints. We will have millions of tests available in the next 1-2 weeks.

"Stop complaining about the lack of body armor and weapons as you are being attacked by the enemy!

As we have been telling you every week for the past 4 weeks, there will be lots and lots of body armor and weapons available to you next week!"

[Anonymous]

This will fill our hospitals.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/new-york-coronavirus-cases-surge-38percent-overnight-to-20875.html

Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop with the testing complaints. We will have millions of tests available in the next 1-2 weeks.

Stop with the reality denial.

We have test rationing right now.

If we had tests in Feb, as the Ebola czar was calling for, and as the CDC normally would do if not muzzled,
we’d have avoided the worst of the lockdowns.

You’re here at home today because our government failed.

You can get tested. You have to be aggressive. A YOUNG friend was denied testing at a Virginia hospital because they said her fever was "too low". She was aggressive about it and got tested. She has it.

Really? I'm in California, and I've been pretty aggressive, and I can't get tested. They are rationing to those who need to be hospitalized and to healthcare workers, so that they don't needlessly blow through PPE.

We are on 2 weeks of self-quarantine now. DH and I are both still sick, and kids still have mild fevers. I monitor my own pulse-ox, which has dropped to borderline levels. No, there is not enough testing.

[Anonymous]

I am a nurse and while I haven't been in the profession in about 5 years, I have a couple friends still in it and what they describe is terrifying. Nothing that we haven't already read, that they have to reuse the same mask forever and if it gets soiled, too bad.

I'm wondering what happens in 2-3 weeks when all these healthcare workers come down simultenously with COVID, who is going to be caring for the patients? That could be more of an issue than lack of ventilators and not one that I have seen discussed...

Also, one wrote MRSA and VRE are no longer considered "isolation" at her non DC hospital so expect hospital aquired infections/deaths to skyrocket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a nurse and while I haven't been in the profession in about 5 years, I have a couple friends still in it and what they describe is terrifying. Nothing that we haven't already read, that they have to reuse the same mask forever and if it gets soiled, too bad.

I'm wondering what happens in 2-3 weeks when all these healthcare workers come down simultenously with COVID, who is going to be caring for the patients? That could be more of an issue than lack of ventilators and not one that I have seen discussed...

Also, one wrote MRSA and VRE are no longer considered "isolation" at her non DC hospital so expect hospital aquired infections/deaths to skyrocket.

God bless you. Thank you for what you do!

[Anonymous]

Which hospitals in the DMV are best equipped to handle coronavirus patients? I read that VHC is quite small and will be overwhelmed soon, so curious about which ones have the most capacity.

[Anonymous]

Reinfection is not possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q4P91VrfPGw

[Anonymous]

Timeline of China's coverup:

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop with the testing complaints. We will have millions of tests available in the next 1-2 weeks.

"Stop complaining about the lack of body armor and weapons as you are being attacked by the enemy!

As we have been telling you every week for the past 4 weeks, there will be lots and lots of body armor and weapons available to you next week!"

NP here.

And this is why we have the stay-at-home orders. There are tests out there, but there are a couple of thousand and not 30K-50K. So they are having people stay home, decrease the infection rate and rationing the tests for those people who are not only sick, but really sick. Test kits started ramping up production and delivery about 1-2 weeks ago and those test kits are going to be hitting the hospitals and testing sites this week and next. Yes, the administration fumbled the ball starting 1-2 weeks ago instead of 4-6 weeks ago as they should have, but the ramp up started a week or two ago and will continue. Ranting now about not having tests is not productive. All it is doing is increasing the noise to signal ratio. Now, complaining about the poor administration of the problem in not addressing this situation is valid, but that's not something that needs to be addressed now. That ship has sailed; late, but it sailed. At this point, focus on the lobbying that will actually get action that still needs to happen started. Now we should be pressing forwarding with making voices heard that the military needs to work on activating the DPA manufacturing to produce PPE, masks, ventillators, and other equipment needed to address the huge influx of people who will become ill enough to require hospitalizations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a nurse and while I haven't been in the profession in about 5 years, I have a couple friends still in it and what they describe is terrifying. Nothing that we haven't already read, that they have to reuse the same mask forever and if it gets soiled, too bad.

I'm wondering what happens in 2-3 weeks when all these healthcare workers come down simultenously with COVID, who is going to be caring for the patients? That could be more of an issue than lack of ventilators and not one that I have seen discussed...

Also, one wrote MRSA and VRE are no longer considered "isolation" at her non DC hospital so expect hospital aquired infections/deaths to skyrocket.

Yup. This is systemic. The system is going to fall apart because its individual components are not being taken care of. JFC.

[Anonymous]

India locking down 1.3 billion for 21 days

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/asia/india-lockdown-coronavirus-intl/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a nurse and while I haven't been in the profession in about 5 years, I have a couple friends still in it and what they describe is terrifying. Nothing that we haven't already read, that they have to reuse the same mask forever and if it gets soiled, too bad.

I'm wondering what happens in 2-3 weeks when all these healthcare workers come down simultenously with COVID, who is going to be caring for the patients? That could be more of an issue than lack of ventilators and not one that I have seen discussed...

Also, one wrote MRSA and VRE are no longer considered "isolation" at her non DC hospital so expect hospital aquired infections/deaths to skyrocket.

Would you consider going back? My friend in Florida just pulled her retirement papers so she can help out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:India locking down 1.3 billion for 21 days

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/asia/india-lockdown-coronavirus-intl/index.html

Smart