Perhaps this article can shed some light on why the New York postive test percentage is 3 times higher than any other state. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bu...-new-york-city-hospital-nurse-covid-19-deaths As of Saturday night in New York City, 672 people are known to have died from COVID-19 since the coronavirus outbreak began, with well over 30,000 known to be infected. Hospitals around the city are stretched to the limit, handling a constant influx of patients while running dangerously low on personal protective equipment like masks and gowns for doctors and nurses. The nurse described a horrific Catch-22. “If we are covid positive, we are expected to work for as long as we are asymptomatic. However we cannot get tested unless we are symptomatic,” he said. “They don’t want to test us because, at the rates we are exposed, we are likely all sick and we don’t know it. “We are rationed personal protective equipment to absurdity,” the nurse said. He said they were given “one disposable mask and one disposable gown that we must sign out for, that is expected to be used for five 12-hour shifts before they will be replaced.” ------ This is going to start happening more and more across the country. And soon. I know of people already being rationed one N95 for the indefinite future. This is why you DO NOT just go to the hospital if you have symptoms. Only go if you absolutely have to. If you show up to this ER without coronavirus, you're leaving with it, because it is all over that PPE. Click the article, by the way, to see the quoted nurse's harrowing photo of about 20 bodies in the back of a refrigerated truck (in body bags) from deaths from his hospital.
High tropical temperature does slow it down, very likely. Where does it say this would completely kill the virus?
Ima have to go re read the original , but it was just about putting something in a humidifier .... like you can go to another room if you need to breathe . Bleach is like one of the worst substances to ingest .
I really hope no one follows chemical advice being given here as a joke. I mean I'm sure not, but people get desparate and this went morbid pretty quickly. https://cen.acs.org/safety/consumer-safety/Accidental-mix-bleach-acid-kills/97/i45 Unfortunately some don't have a lot of experience with chemical reactions... And this still happens today
We started implementing ways to prolong n95 masks by using cheap surgical mask over them, nonmedical peeps can use a bandana to put over and disinfect that after every grocery trip. Protocol is to store the n95 mask in a paper bag because it can breathe and never in plastic. You can also buy those plastic painters mask that sell at the hardware store. Get you some eye protection too like safety glasses. Ground glass opacity and or patches of pneumonia in imaging are covid signs. We intubated a patient that couldn't stay above 90 oxygen and started rapidly declining. We were all scared for our life but this is what we do.
@Houstunna, @snowconeman22 In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundreds March 27, 2020 The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus. The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran. Iranian media report nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Islamic Republic, where drinking alcohol is banned and where those who do rely on bootleggers. An Iranian doctor helping the country’s Health Ministry told The Associated Press on Friday the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people sickened. The poisonings come as fake remedies spread across social media in Iran, where people remain deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the crisis for days before it overwhelmed the country. .... That fear of the virus, coupled with poor education and internet rumors, saw dozens sickened by drinking bootleg alcohol containing methanol in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province and its southern city of Shiraz. Videos aired by Iranian media showed patients with IVs stuck in their arms, laying on beds otherwise needed for the fight against the coronavirus, including the intubated 5-year-old boy. Iranian media also reported cases in the cities of Karaj and Yazd.
Florida sticks out like a flaccid, disease ridden broken penis. Seriously the rates in Florida, Mississippi and Georgia will end up being terrible.
New Orleans projected to exceed capacity starting next week. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_r...cle_368520c0-71c4-11ea-b3a3-bbe4aa1963f8.html Edwards said the New Orleans area, Louisiana’s coronavirus epicenter, is on track to run out of ventilators by April 4th and hospital beds by April 10th, dates that have shifted slightly in recent days. In the past couple weeks, Louisiana has requested 12,000 ventilators from various sources and only procured 192, Edwards said. Last week, the governor said he had asked for 5,000 ventilators from the federal stockpile and received zero. Edwards said the state has not received assurances from the Trump administration that its needs will be met, but he said he continues to press the case and hopes to land ventilators from the federal government. Now state officials are exploring the possibility of retrofitting other types of breathing devices to act as ventilators, using EMT ventilators not typically used in hospitals and putting two patients on one ventilator, depending on the acuity levels of the patients, the governor said.
Based on the actions already done... middle of road estimate. But it could change... The nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and member of the White House's coronavirus task force says the pandemic could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans and infect millions. Dr. Anthony Fauci said based on modeling of the current pace of the coronavirus' spread in the U.S., "between 100,000 and 200,000" people may die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Holy ****, this is awful! I was using a small example, but this is very bad. I really hope people are more careful. Just sad to see this, that's absolutely devastating. I
