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03-05-2020, 04:04 PM | #781 |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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03-05-2020, 04:05 PM | #782 |
The Seated Villain
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03-05-2020, 04:07 PM | #783 |
The Seated Villain
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03-05-2020, 04:21 PM | #784 | |
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The USA had 10K ventilators and ancillary supplies to run them in reserve. The plan is to use hotel rooms and portable oxygen for the ventilators for the more stable patients. The issue will be RT’s to run them. An RT runs 3-5 ventilators and manages the patents. One nurse can possibly do 3-4X times that many patients. But, your going to have 3000 licensed RT’s that are not already employed by hospitals. And then 10K sounds like a lot of reserve but when you do the math it’s going to get dicey in an pandemic. |
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03-05-2020, 04:24 PM | #785 |
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215 now. Up from 168 this morning.
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03-05-2020, 04:52 PM | #786 |
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Well now I'm terrified again. Does the flu have these kinds of complications for serious cases? |
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03-05-2020, 05:07 PM | #787 |
"Think BOOM!"
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Pretty fascinating comparison to MERS and SARS here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...mbers-n1150321 |
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03-05-2020, 05:10 PM | #788 | |
Life is changing..
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03-05-2020, 05:11 PM | #789 |
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Scottsdale firefighters, ambulance crew in isolation after treating coronavirus patient
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03-05-2020, 05:13 PM | #790 |
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I feel like people would voluntarily take a lot more steps that would aid containment if they had the proper info. There is still not widespread testing and we have known about this thing for more than a month. Federal officials are still trying to downplay it rather than simply getting the info out.
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03-05-2020, 05:30 PM | #791 | |
Life is changing..
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03-05-2020, 05:34 PM | #792 |
Cheat Death
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SARS + AIDS? Chiefsplanetvirus
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03-05-2020, 05:40 PM | #793 |
Forever Royal
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What is it exactly people think the tests are supposed to do? Is treatment different if you have it versus having a different strand of flu? Doesn’t really seem like it from anything I’ve seen. If you have a cold or something worse and feel the need to go to the doctor and they say you are having flu like symptoms and might have a strand of flu, the treatment is still go home and avoid people and treat the symptoms. It’s not like they say they can’t test you so you can resume activities as normal.
And if anyone with a sniffle could get tested for it then you would have way too many people taking advantage of that anyways and then truly over whelming the healthcare system. |
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03-05-2020, 05:48 PM | #794 |
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03-05-2020, 05:48 PM | #795 | |
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