Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

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Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

So strange they did not immediately shut down visitation and new patients.

I read where a family member of a resident at the facility said that they had called them to tell them their dad was symptomatic and asked the family member not to come visit him.

It's possible that the facility has gone from recommending that no one come visit to outright shutting down visitation and new patients.

The idea that 19 of those firefighters are experiencing symptoms actually freaks me out a little. It also makes me positive that there is zero way to contain this.

Limiting visitors isn’t as easy as it seems. My parents are both in facilities - dad in nursing home mom in assisted living - and we do a lot of care for my dad who has dementia. If we stopped coming he would get agitated and start falling out of bed, etc. So while stopping visits makes good sense from the virus point of view it would be just terrible for patient care. I guess that’s the kind of trade off many facilities will have to make. ?

I honestly don't know the answer to that. They may need to isolate the patients to their rooms and handle visitors on a case by case basis. I don't know the solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

Wonder who Typhoid Mary is and whether or not she kept her travels (or her family's) to herself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

Good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

And can we test them yet? Still waiting on more tests?

Are Chinese vendors selling them on Amazon yet?

Lol! I saw what you did there.

[Anonymous]

Sorry if this has already been covered in this thread, I didn't see it in the last couple of pages. So we have about 100 known cases in the US, and six deaths? That's, um, very troubling.

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Anonymous wrote:For people who have autoimmune illnesses and are concerned about their risk, I recommend the reddit thread below.

This is the only thing I have seen on this aspect, but unfortunately the end answer seems to be no one really knows. Interestingly, Plaquenil, a drug people with some types of autoimmune take, has been experimented with in China as a treatment for COVID-19.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fbk41g/any_peerreviewed_sources_suggest_that_people_with/

Pre-existing conditions
Pre-existing illnesses that put patients at higher risk:
cardiovascular disease
diabetes
chronic respiratory disease
hypertension




https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

That was on the basis of the Chinese studies. They did not note those with autoimmune disease. There was something like 2 out of 1500 or so noted with immunodeficiencies, not exactly the same thing. So this remains an unstudied area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

They also lied about why they were wearing masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has already been covered in this thread, I didn't see it in the last couple of pages. So we have about 100 known cases in the US, and six deaths? That's, um, very troubling.

I would say not really. Washington State was unfortunate in having this break out early in a facility for already fragile elderly people. All but five of the deaths are from this cluster. We know deaths are much higher in adults and higher still in those with pre-existing conditions, which is no doubt the case for those from the facility who died.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

And can we test them yet? Still waiting on more tests?

Are Chinese vendors selling them on Amazon yet?

Lol! I saw what you did there.

Hey if they can make them and they actually work I’ll buy some!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

Wonder who Typhoid Mary is and whether or not she kept her travels (or her family's) to herself.

This is exactly why people don’t want to come forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has already been covered in this thread, I didn't see it in the last couple of pages. So we have about 100 known cases in the US, and six deaths? That's, um, very troubling.

To self soothe, some people will say we have many more undetected cases. Our only hope is warm weather getting here soon and having an effect on the lipid envelope of the virus. Scientists don’t know — some say, yes, that may happen, but others say, no idea. If it doesn’t ... we’re in trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19 firefighters who responded to the Life Care nursing home in Washington are showing symptoms. Nineteen.

Also, Life Care FINALLY stopped accepting visitors and new patients this afternoon.

Wonder who Typhoid Mary is and whether or not she kept her travels (or her family's) to herself.

This is exactly why people don’t want to come forward.

Fear of lawsuits?

[Anonymous]

We need help in this country. Can we bring in Chinese experts?

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Anonymous wrote:Praying for an early spring and warm, sunny weather.

We are supposed to have a warmer than normal spring.

Good.

Does warm weather really slow the spread? Or is this one of those myths?