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  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 19,108 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited March 2020

    No, haven't been back to Athens since we left in 2007. I would love to go back for a home game. I used to love working field security for home games. Being in the stands is cool...being on the sidelines is unreal!

  • BobcatGradBobcatGrad Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Your son might enjoy the Peyton Manning commencement speech, actually pretty entertaining for anyone.


  • CTDawgCTDawg Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I believe I read that cytokine storms were a driving force behind the large death rate among young, healthy people during the 1918 influenza outbreak.

  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I'm doing alright in Vinings. Have plenty of food but my main issue is that I don’t have a thermometer and they are sold out everywhere that I’ve tried. I have allergies/sinus issues that bug me pretty much year round so I’ve been stuffed up for weeks...being a hypochondriac I’d like to be able to take my temp. Hopefully my amazon delivery shows up Thursday.

  • AnotherDawgAnotherDawg Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    You're welcome to borrow my electronic thermometer, and I'm happy to run it out to you! 😷

  • deutcshland_dawgdeutcshland_dawg Posts: 1,595 mod

    Day 2: Still kickin' out in Germany. Haven't heard of a huge out break yet in the local area. Only odd thing other then schools being closed is how empty the base is. Ramstein is pretty much the only place to get a lot of services and stuff you need for everyday life and is always packed with huge lines daily. Its pretty much a ghost town now. Its like living in a zombie movie.

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  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yes. Many of the therapies aren't anti-virals but rather immune modulators meant to cool down the fire within your lungs and keep you from going into respiratory failure.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Do you know how much of those biologics are available at any given time? Would a hospital potentially run out?

  • SoFL_DawgSoFL_Dawg Posts: 11,082 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited March 2020

    Not RX, but absolutely. Based on need, small community hospitals could absolutely have a shortage.

    Editing this post to add more color: Hospitals and like facilities rely on reimbursements to make money. Even non profit institutions follow this model. The reimbursements come from Medicare. Hospitals are eligible to be reimbursed up to 6% of their gross income annually. The avg. hospital in major US cities generates ~1M in revenue daily. A third of that 6% comes from what is called Value based purchasing, which is a fancy way of saying keep your costs down.

    Hospitals no longer stock pile materials/meds as a way to navigate a declining reimbursement market. As a result, an localized outbreak could easily cause a shortage of supplies.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Update:

    1st patient is still critical, on life support, but not really worse. Hopeful they will come around eventually.

    2nd positive pt reported last night. Doing well with mild symptoms. So it's reassuring to see a true case that isn't critical with my own eyes.

    Both either had significant travel recently or had an occupation that put them in close physical contact with many people.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yes we could run out. The main one is Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) . It's an older and cheaper med that's been around for a long time, most commonly used for lupus or malaria. It's in good supply. But... just like TP, a massive rush for it nation wide will wipe out the stock. We ordered 10 bottles yesterday and got 5.

    There are some others. But this is the one with the most promise so far.

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