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@ghostofuga1 I love the way you think!
County and City shut us down today, we go back to work on April 13th.
As mentioned before, I’m in IS for a large hospital organization in Georgia. About the only time I have to worry about the virus itself and the economy is when I’m off work, which by the way is becoming less and less by the day. The largest hospital that I am closest to (in proximity), we are dedicating one complete floor for confirmed cases and those “heavily considered” but not confirmed. That means a ton of moving people – computers, phones, printers, print ques, switch vlans, etc… I am so busy at work, I’m completely exhausted at the end of each day.
I know this is a tough crowd at times, but I can promise you the numbers of positive infections and deaths due to the virus are not very accurate. We received an email today saying we had one confirmed case who had just passed. It was explained that the patient passed away, then we received the results of patient’s test as being positive, but that was early this morning – still shows no confirmed and no deaths for this particular hospital on any maps (with numbers). DV me for this portion if you choose, just being honest. This is an extremely serious situation.
Please, please, everyone do their parts to stay healthy and help the community. God bless all!
We had a suspected case pass away today. Still waiting on the results to come back. If it's positive it will be our first confirmed death as well. I'm kind of 50/50 on the patient, but leaning towards a positive case.
My story sounds very similar to yours @amjadawgs . Dedicated wing for the non critical Corona patients, and the critical ones go into negative pressure rooms in the regular ICU. And they're starting to fill up too. I got a feeling it's about to get real busy.
Where is the balance of trying to restore the country vs keeping everyone away and slowing the progression of a disease during a pandemic? There's some tough questions to answer coming real soon. And sure to be plenty of finger pointing too sadly.
Finger pointing will happen. But not on here. Already had to ban someone today on his "finger pointing" views. So let's just keep it out of the discussion.....😉
Today I learned that both my personal physician and my mother’s personal physician have tested positive. They are self quarantined at home and have not had any complications yet. They are the first people I know personally With the corona virus.
Please keep them and all health care providers in your prayers.
BTW... If any of you know an RN on LPN who works in ICU at ANY hospital, please take the time to tell them, "Thank you!"
One way to show support for healthcare workers is to tie a white ribbon in your trees. We have a niece who is a nurse, and have several white ribbons in our front yard. It is catching on in our ‘hood near Emory.
That's a good idea.
Pls spread the word in your neighborhood, Facebook, and Nextdoor. Mention me If you get on Good Morning America!
I do. My good friend is out in the hospital parking out swabbing noses. Like in the hazmat suit, sweating his nuts off taking samples. I was hanging out with him tonight. Says they are having about a 7% positive rate (compared to the 40-80% the media is predicting). Man, he's got some funny stories.
Will do.
That probably means they've had to deal with the viral load of many infected patients.
The only reports I have seen is that by the time this is all done, infection rates could be as high as 56% of California and that was said by our governor. That is not 40-80% of people who are going to get tested having it. That is not 40-80% of people today have it, that high number is how much of our population could get it in 2020 if we do not contain it. Let's not conflate numbers. If 7% of folks who are going to get tested have it, that is a great number and our collective hope is that this number goes down rather than up. I think the info out there is that generally this is not fatal, but it has awful symptoms for the most part and it is fairly easy to transmit.
This is something shared with me by email. It's long, but an informative read from someone who has a very knowledgable view.
“As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we are seeing from a transmission dynamic perspective and how they apply to the social distancing measures. Specifically, I want to make two aspects of these measures very clear and unambiguous.
First, we are in the very infancy of this epidemic’s trajectory. That means even with these measures we will see cases and deaths continue to rise globally, nationally, and in our own communities in the coming weeks. Our hospitals will be overwhelmed, and people will die that didn’t have to. This may lead some people to think that the social distancing measures are not working. They are. They may feel futile. They aren’t. You will feel discouraged. You should. This is normal in chaos. This enemy that we are facing is very good at what it does; we are not failing. We need everyone to hold the line as the epidemic inevitably gets worse. This is not my opinion; this is the unforgiving math of epidemics for which I and my colleagues have dedicated our lives to understanding with great nuance, and this disease is no exception. We know what will happen; I want to help the community brace for this impact. Stay strong and with solidarity knowing with absolute certainty that what you are doing is saving lives, even as people begin getting sick and dying around you. You may feel like giving in. Don’t.
Second, although social distancing measures have been (at least temporarily) well-received, there is an obvious-but-overlooked phenomenon when considering groups (i.e. families) in transmission dynamics. While social distancing decreases contact with members of society, it of course increases your contacts with group (i.e.. family) members. This small and obvious fact has surprisingly profound implications on disease transmission dynamics. Study after study demonstrates that even if there is only a little bit of connection between groups (i.e. social dinners, playdates/playgrounds, etc.), the epidemic trajectory isn’t much different than if there was no measure in place. The same underlying fundamentals of disease transmission apply, and the result is that the community is left with all of the social and economic disruption but very little public health benefit. You should perceive your entire family to function as a single individual unit; if one person puts themselves at risk, everyone in the unit is at risk. Seemingly small social chains get large and complex with alarming speed. If your son visits his girlfriend, and you later sneak over for coffee with a neighbor, your neighbor is now connected to the infected office worker that your son’s girlfriend’s mother shook hands with. This sounds silly, it’s not. This is not a joke or a hypothetical. We as epidemiologists see it borne out in the data time and time again and no one listens. Conversely, any break in that chain breaks disease transmission along that chain.
In contrast to hand-washing and other personal measures, social distancing measures are not about individuals, they are about societies working in unison. These measures also take a long time to see the results. It is hard (even for me) to conceptualize how ‘one quick little get together’ can undermine the entire framework of a public health intervention, but it does. I promise you it does. I promise. I promise. I promise. You can’t cheat it.. People are already itching to cheat on the social distancing precautions just a “little”- a playdate, a haircut, or picking up a needless item at the store, etc. From a transmission dynamics standpoint, this very quickly recreates a highly connected social network that undermines all of the work the community has done so far.
Until we get a viable vaccine this unprecedented outbreak will not be overcome in grand, sweeping gesture, rather only by the collection of individual choices our community makes in the coming months. This virus is unforgiving to unwise choices. My goal in writing this is to prevent communities from getting ‘sucker-punched’ by what the epidemiological community knows will happen in the coming weeks. It will be easy to be drawn to the idea that what we are doing isn’t working and become paralyzed by fear, or to ‘cheat’ a little bit in the coming weeks. By knowing what to expect, and knowing the importance of maintaining these measures, my hope is to encourage continued community spirit, strategizing, and action to persevere in this time of uncertainty.”