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Post by Tennesseer on May 19, 2020 20:44:35 GMT -5
Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut and U.S. senator John Glenn, died earlier today from complications of the Covid-19. She was 100 years old.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 20, 2020 18:32:47 GMT -5
Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut and U.S. senator John Glenn, died earlier today from complications of the Covid-19. She was 100 years old. John Glenn is my avatar.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2020 19:28:39 GMT -5
One of my brothers has been hospitalized since last Friday after waiting a week for results that "got lost." He's on a ventilator and has heart problems. Discovered today that he also has a staph infection. He's five years younger than I am. SIL finally got the positive results of her test on Monday, hospitalized on Tuesday, has pneumonia, too. SIL's DD and her DH also positive but at home.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 20, 2020 19:42:59 GMT -5
One of my brothers has been hospitalized since last Friday after waiting a week for results that "got lost." He's on a ventilator and has heart problems. Discovered today that he also has a staph infection. He's five years younger than I am. SIL finally got the positive results of her test on Monday, hospitalized on Tuesday, has pneumonia, too. SIL's DD and her DH also positive but at home. When it rains it pours. Sorry to hear all that, missrigby.
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Post by ners on May 20, 2020 19:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by mollyanna58 on May 20, 2020 19:55:07 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your brother, @missrigby I hope he recovers quickly.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on May 20, 2020 20:04:49 GMT -5
@missrigby hope they recover soon.
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Post by mollyanna58 on May 20, 2020 21:55:10 GMT -5
The brother of one of my clients is in the hospital due to COVID-19. He has been on a ventilator. She says they are going to transfer him to a larger hospital, take him off the ventilator and perform a tracheotomy, and also put in a feeding tube. His wife also had it but has recovered. They are both in their 80s.
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Post by mmhmm on May 21, 2020 11:43:11 GMT -5
So sorry, @missrigby. I hope all infected recover without residual effects.
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Post by thyme4change on May 21, 2020 15:40:02 GMT -5
One of my brothers has been hospitalized since last Friday after waiting a week for results that "got lost." He's on a ventilator and has heart problems. Discovered today that he also has a staph infection. He's five years younger than I am. SIL finally got the positive results of her test on Monday, hospitalized on Tuesday, has pneumonia, too. SIL's DD and her DH also positive but at home. Ugh. I'm so sorry to hear that. If you are quarantined with family, it is likely to rip through the whole family, which is especially devastating. I read an article by a woman whose husband was sick with Covid and she said the first thing she did was try to figure out where her daughter could go to be away from them if she was also struck. What a nightmare.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 26, 2020 9:30:20 GMT -5
A nice story. One of survival. A 96-Year-Old Veteran Was Near Death. Then He Met His Social Worker.The outlook for the patient assigned to Capt. Eric Dungan on May 1 was bleak: George Crouch, 96, seemed to have given up on life. His beloved wife had died of Covid-19, and Mr. Crouch was also battling the illness in the hospital. Since his wife’s death in late April, he was refusing medical care and would not eat. Captain Dungan, a trained social worker in the U.S. Army Reserves, had been deployed from Indiana to New York City to help hospitals counsel the sick during the coronavirus crisis. Many of his patients at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx had already died of the illness, and given Mr. Crouch’s age, condition and temperament, Captain Dungan braced for the worst. A nurse stopped him on his way to visit Mr. Crouch for the first time. Did Captain Dungan know, the nurse asked, that Mr. Crouch was a veteran of World War II? “I always see World War II vets as national treasures,” Captain Dungan said. “He did not disappoint.” The soldiers’ disparate paths had collided at that hospital bedside. Mr. Crouch was decades out of the Army; Captain Dungan, 46, had only just signed up for the reserves, driven to enlist after the death of his own father, a veteran. Mr. Crouch had lived in New York City for most of his life. Captain Dungan, from Muncie, Ind., had never been to the city. His deployment to Jacobi was his first ever in uniform, part of the same military-backed effort that brought the U.S.N.S. Comfort hospital ship to the Hudson River. But bonded by their time in the service, the two men connected. Through their friendship, Mr. Crouch found something to live for, his family believes. Complete article here. May be behind a paywall for some. A 96-Year-Old Veteran Was Near Death. Then He Met His Social Worker.
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Post by azucena on Jun 8, 2020 14:16:36 GMT -5
A family at our school has been told to isolate. They were likely exposed because the husband is a pharmacist who has been working. The wife, kid2, and kid3 have symptoms that the wife says are mild but not pleasant. The husband and kid1 don't have symptoms. They are attempting to stay separated upstairs vs downstairs in their house and seem to be in good spirits and well-prepared as the wife who was/is also a pharmacist figured they would get it at some point so prepared essentials including frozen meals. It's going to take 5-7 days for their test results to be back. I guess I figured we were at instant testing at this point. What makes it take so long?
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Post by oped on Jun 8, 2020 14:42:17 GMT -5
Rapid testing requires materials to process that have been limited supply... and I hear they aren’t as accurate?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 8, 2020 15:15:30 GMT -5
Capacity is limited. We do inpatients at the hospital, 3-6 hour turnaround time depending on time of day. Outpatients sent out. 3-4 days usually. Reagents, swabs, machines all in short supply. Wait from r a rapid testing machine is weeks to months. Reliability of rapid tests also an issue
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Post by busymom on Jun 16, 2020 11:26:56 GMT -5
Republican Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina. Apparently, his wife & son got it, too...
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 16, 2020 11:53:04 GMT -5
Republican Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina. Apparently, his wife & son got it, too... Just several weeks ago he publicly refused to wear a face mask.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 16, 2020 12:24:21 GMT -5
Republican Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina. Apparently, his wife & son got it, too... Just several weeks ago he publicly refused to wear a face mask. Karma
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Post by busymom on Jun 16, 2020 12:48:53 GMT -5
Just curious, pulmonarymd...what do you think Trump's chances are of catching COVID at the big rally in Tulsa, that is coming up soon? I'll guess the odds of those sitting in the stands are pretty good, but what about the speakers who plan to attend?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 16, 2020 13:01:21 GMT -5
Just curious, pulmonarymd...what do you think Trump's chances are of catching COVID at the big rally in Tulsa, that is coming up soon? I'll guess the odds of those sitting in the stands are pretty good, but what about the speakers who plan to attend? Risk is proportional to dose of the virus and its prevalence. That is the reason that keeping the number of people down is important. Doesn’t take many different people to get a large exposure group. Just think of the 6 degrees of separation, how small a group needs to be to have exposure to a large group of people, and the chance you are exposed to someone sick. Then it gets to dose, which is a function of proximity and length of exposure. Reason why 6 feet of separation is important. Finally, there is your health; underlying conditions, age , and function of your immune system. At any single event, his risk is not likely high. But as the number of events increases, his probability of being exposed to an ill person, be exposed to a large enough dose of the virus, and be in a state where his immune system is not able to protect him, the higher his risk goes. Do enough if these events, and he has a higher chance of becoming ill.
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