Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

This looks like one of those "which image is different" questions.

 

Agree.

 

I was on a conference call yesterday when this quote flashed on the news. We had some gems on the phone call.

No more pregnancy tests means no more pregnancies!
No more school testing means no more dummies!

 

Well we know that he directs all of his words to his base, so you're probably right.

 

Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19

 

Very interesting.

 

Seemed like Texas was doing a decent job early on but they have been struggling lately.

Texas hits new high for coroanvirus cases, hospitalizations

 

Agreed

 

I wonder how many of the people who need to read this actually will.

 

This part right here should be a mic drop but sadly you'll still have those that insist they are fine and actually prefer others don't wear masks

 

And how many who actually read it will reject it because it doesn't tell them what they want to hear?

 

COVID-19 spikes in Arizona, Texas and Florida; church linked to Oregon outbreak

 

Yeah, I wish they'd publish a prelim paper of their results so I have a little more information to work with. As it stands, I just started a COVID presumptive patient on dexamethasone today as a result of the study. She needs steroids for COPD exacerbation anyway, I just decided to use the specific steroid type and dosing the Brits used.

Here in California, we're seeing an uptick in cases, and we're feeling it in our hospital as well. Increased testing seems to be straining our testing capacity as well. Before we had gotten the turnaround time for inpatients to a few hours, now it's 48 hours. That's gonna be a lot of PPEs wasted on results pending patients who don't end up turning positive.

But, it seems like we're gonna proceed with opening up anyway. I'm not happy with how things are turning out, but I'm resigned to the fact that we just can't do a lockdown properly and a half-assed lockdown will probably do more harm than good.

 

Lingering symptoms months after being diagnosed in young people. Death isn't the only way that covid is impacting people, even young and healthy people.

90 days after coronavirus diagnosis, 32-year-old still has symptoms: 'So frustrating'

The World Health Organization estimates about 16% of people with COVID-19 never develop symptoms (but can still infect others). While others, like 32-year-old Melanie Montano, feel sick for weeks or even months after they test positive. Montano shared her story with Al Roker on TODAY's 3rd Hour.

Montano first noticed her COVID-19 symptoms in late February. In mid-March, she tested positive. More than 90 days after that, she still has trouble breathing, loss of taste and smell and fatigue, which comes "in waves," she said.

Answering Al's question about how doctors recommend she treat her symptoms, she said, "The problem is there really is not a recommendation ... It's so new that we don't really know how to intercept what's going on."

 

I know this kind of thing first hand. In the early 90s, I had something called coxsackievirus, which sucked in and of itself. But as I was recovering from it, I descended into a chronic fatigue condition that lasted a couple of years. I was out of work for 6 months, too tired to get off the couch. All sorts of other weird neurological symptoms too (dizziness, vision, and taste in particular). I saw numerous doctors at first, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. None were able to help much. It wasn't until many years later that I found out it is not uncommon for those who had this type of virus to develop chronic fatigue. And my main fear about catching covid-19 is that something like that could happen again. I'm not worried about being sick for a couple of weeks. That sucks but it ends. But I do worry about having another bout of CFS. I never want to go through that again.

 

My wife's ICU is full up now and cases are stacking up in the ER. It's getting real.

 

This is so obvious, it is stunning that any person still wants to try and argue this.

 

Almost 4K cases in a day with a 17% positive test rate for the day in Texas. I hope it was a one-off...

 

That kind of positive rate seems like the Tracers must have found a "hot spot". No way that is just from random testing....