My Doctor husband came home crying yesterday

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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.

+1000

This is the attitude causing mass hysteria. People in modern times cannot handle any sort of novel virus. That combined with SOCIAL MEDIA and the unprecedented HATRED towards our president has fueled this over the top reaction! Right away they think of bubonic plague wiping out half the human race. Currently the death rate in China from this virus is 0.000203% of their population! And has come to a screeching halt pretty much with the precautions taken now. I believe rational thinking is deteriorating more and more everyday.

Disagree with both of you. The media is reporting numbers of diagnoses, but not giving us a play-by-play of what is actually happening in hospitals. Testing is so f-up that the numbers media reports are much lower, leading to a false sense of security. OP is providing a public service, giving people the truth that will hopefully change behavior. There is no "mass hysteria" just people like you in denial because you don't understand the science of infections.

Also, there is unprecedented hatred for our president because we've never had one so despicable. The media reports truthfully on his word, action, and deed. Those of us with a moral compass make our own judgements. I'm sorry you have none.

Here we go.. Thank you for making my point ..

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It is funny but sad to watch people clinging to bits of hope. “But the numbers are low...this other doctor said the opposite...”

You guys have no idea what is happening, or what is about to happen.

Take care of each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an update from my brother who’s a hospitalist in Brooklyn. Really, really bleak. Plus lots of young patients really sick.

What exactly did he say that is so bleak? You didn't give any actual information.

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Meanwhile, we do know that after confidential briefings a number of congresspeople-who outwardly downplayed the virus--dumped a lot of stock. THat's leadership for you!

America at its finest.

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Gosh, I feel SO sorry for medical folks. I’m stressed out trying to figure out if my mail is contaminated and how best to open it. My deepest, humble appreciation goes out to all medical folks. And their families, who must wonder every day if COVID is coming home.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an update from my brother who’s a hospitalist in Brooklyn. Really, really bleak. Plus lots of young patients really sick.

What exactly did he say that is so bleak? You didn't give any actual information.

Large orthodox community who were also community spreaders of measles in Brooklyn. Doesn't surprise me that there's probably a surge of younger patients from this demographic.

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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.

Although, with disease spread, the explonential curve tapers off as more people have been infected because the virus needs virgin immune systems to attack, so the multiplier is tamped down once you hit some percentage of people already exposed. Too long didn't I've done that kind of math, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been monitoring ER wait times at the inova hospitals in NOVA (https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times) for the past two weeks and they've remained consistent. My assumption is that the system is still working fine if ERs are moving people in and out. Is that not the case?

I don't know about that one, but there was an ER wait time tracker I was following a few weeks ago, until I realized that the times were identical day after day. Not actually tracking isht.

DP. Confirming: these wait times haven't changed in weeks https://www.hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/Washington-DC-Metro.htm

Hospital - Total Wait Times
Sibley Memorial Hospital 3h 4m
George Washington Univ Hospital 3h 31m
Georgetown University Hospital 3h 50m
Washington Hospital Center 4h 16m
Howard University Hospital 4h 23m
Providence Hospital 5h 8m
United Medical Center 5h 44m
Children's Hospital Nmc N/A

Wow. Is that average wait time? Over 5 hours?

Thankful for doctors/nurses/techs who are so busy. I was expecting them to have spiked to 10 -12 hours at this point.

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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.

Although, with disease spread, the explonential curve tapers off as more people have been infected because the virus needs virgin immune systems to attack, so the multiplier is tamped down once you hit some percentage of people already exposed. Too long didn't I've done that kind of math, though.

Yep. And the more vulnerable people get protection through herd immunity. That is the way that viruses work.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been monitoring ER wait times at the inova hospitals in NOVA (https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times) for the past two weeks and they've remained consistent. My assumption is that the system is still working fine if ERs are moving people in and out. Is that not the case?

I don't know about that one, but there was an ER wait time tracker I was following a few weeks ago, until I realized that the times were identical day after day. Not actually tracking isht.

DP. Confirming: these wait times haven't changed in weeks https://www.hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/Washington-DC-Metro.htm

Hospital - Total Wait Times
Sibley Memorial Hospital 3h 4m
George Washington Univ Hospital 3h 31m
Georgetown University Hospital 3h 50m
Washington Hospital Center 4h 16m
Howard University Hospital 4h 23m
Providence Hospital 5h 8m
United Medical Center 5h 44m
Children's Hospital Nmc N/A

Wow. Is that average wait time? Over 5 hours?

Thankful for doctors/nurses/techs who are so busy. I was expecting them to have spiked to 10 -12 hours at this point.

Lol. Those look like non-emergency "I need to see if this cough is caused by the Coronavirus" waits. Those idiots probably will get sick sitting around the ER.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received an update from my brother who’s a hospitalist in Brooklyn. Really, really bleak. Plus lots of young patients really sick.

What exactly did he say that is so bleak? You didn't give any actual information.

Large orthodox community who were also community spreaders of measles in Brooklyn. Doesn't surprise me that there's probably a surge of younger patients from this demographic.

This is the group that had huge weddings this weekend in defiance of the "no large gatherings" rule. The fire department had to break up the weddings and the orthodox community was pissed and claiming they were being unfairly persecuted. This orthodox group kept their private schools open (the same ones that refused to comply with state requests for vaccination records) until a day or two ago when the disease was so widespread that teachers were all out side.

Then they overwhelmed the clinics yesterday because tons of people from the weddings and community had the virus.

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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.

Even in the hardest-hit parts of Wuhan and among people with high social contact (healthcare, essential retail, etc.) there was a significant chunk of people that never tested positive.

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My husband is a doctor with a foreign MD who cannot practice here. He’s an infectious disease specialist and saw the writing on the wall in January.

Wishing strength to all medical personnel on the front lines!!!! This is WAR.

Are people looking at ways people like your DH can be of help? Last night when I heard about elective procedures, including dental, being halted part of the story on the news was to help make providers who work in those areas available to the rest of the healthcare system.

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https://www.miemssalert.com/chats/Default.aspx?hdRegion=5&hdtab=Hospitals

MD hospitals are fine, still.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been monitoring ER wait times at the inova hospitals in NOVA (https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times) for the past two weeks and they've remained consistent. My assumption is that the system is still working fine if ERs are moving people in and out. Is that not the case?

I don't know about that one, but there was an ER wait time tracker I was following a few weeks ago, until I realized that the times were identical day after day. Not actually tracking isht.

DP. Confirming: these wait times haven't changed in weeks https://www.hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/Washington-DC-Metro.htm

Hospital - Total Wait Times
Sibley Memorial Hospital 3h 4m
George Washington Univ Hospital 3h 31m
Georgetown University Hospital 3h 50m
Washington Hospital Center 4h 16m
Howard University Hospital 4h 23m
Providence Hospital 5h 8m
United Medical Center 5h 44m
Children's Hospital Nmc N/A

Wow. Is that average wait time? Over 5 hours?

If those wait times are accurate everyone should go to Inova in fairfax county. Wait times are like 15 minutes consistently.

The website says 3 hours for INOVA Fairfax.

Not commenting on the overall seriousness of the situation or the accuracy of the hospital data but that’t true - it says 15 minutes now and has definitely not said today that it was three hours.