My Doctor husband came home crying yesterday

[Anonymous]

My sister is a war vet and ICU nurse at the hospital where MD just had its first corona death. She was there when he died on Wednesday and called to tell me how shaken up she was. She said they're not overwhelmed yet, but they are already rationing masks and gear and having to reuse masks multiple times. They have canceled all elective surgeries to conserve ventilators. She is so pissed at all of these fools still out and about. It's not about us contracting the virus and surviving, it's about not overwhelming an already crippled healthcare system with cases that could easily have been avoided if healthy people had just stayed the f*ck home for a few weeks so that hospitals can focus their time and resources on critical care patients.

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH physician has been mostly sitting at home and helping out with the home schooling. His hospital has no covid but is emptying and cancelling as they don't know what to expect. I wish there was a way to back fill the overworked physicians with the specialty ones whose business is now dead.

This is more the norm on our area. Really wish people wouldn’t put much stock in anonymous people on the internet with an agenda.

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Say it with me now: BECAUSE THEY ARE TESTING MORE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH physician has been mostly sitting at home and helping out with the home schooling. His hospital has no covid but is emptying and cancelling as they don't know what to expect. I wish there was a way to back fill the overworked physicians with the specialty ones whose business is now dead.

This is more the norm on our area. Really wish people wouldn’t put much stock in anonymous people on the internet with an agenda.

Pp is not anonymous?

[Anonymous]

The “good news” story in NY is that they are testing. Expect CA to jump in numbers soon. I live here and know sick (and healthy) people who would like to be tested but we can’t yet. Until you see the numbers jump dramatically the data won’t be accurate.

[Anonymous]

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.

+1. Best friend is an ER nurse in Fairfax County. Said they are still just on standby.

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Say it with me now: BECAUSE THEY ARE TESTING MORE.

Yep, they ordered 40,000 kits for NYC and set up testing checkpoints, especailly in hard-hit areas (for example, the Orthodox Jewish community where they kept holding weddings this weekend)

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

If we estimate the dmv population at 6 million, then 0.7% is 42,000 deaths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of those families in the DMV who are seeing a very dire reality, can any come forward publicly?
Do you remember the Wuhan doctor who blew the whistle? It's way late in the game here, but if we still have people out there who don't believe the risk, it would help a lot.

A dr from nyc was on the today show or something weeks ago.

And we still have selfish idiots on this website trying to say things are not so bad from the safety of their homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

If we estimate the dmv population at 6 million, then 0.7% is 42,000 deaths.

No model assumes 100 percent of population will get virus.

[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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Say it with me now: BECAUSE THEY ARE TESTING MORE.

But estimates are that an infected individual infects 2.5 people, so that’s where the exponential growth estimates come from. If you have social distancing, individuals will infect fewer people. So that’s at play as well.

[Anonymous]

I love - no, rather I hate and wail about - how 2 months ago, people were shrugging at Wuhan's situation, and pointing out the lack of transparency, the lack of PPE, and using those are the basis of their confidence that we'll be alright. We're doing so much worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

If we estimate the dmv population at 6 million, then 0.7% is 42,000 deaths.

No model assumes 100 percent of population will get virus.

And no model suggests that you have correctly identified the mortality rate.