'It could happen to anybody': Kenner lawyer, 45, in critical care with coronavirus, wife says

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[TigerClaws]

45. Good health before this.

[Berlin_Freeper]

taly: Veneto region to test everybody, outside supermarkets and in the streets.

[TigerClaws]

Send this link to medical folks you know.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammatory-drugs-may-aggravate-coronavirus-infection

This was done to this patient.

[Spktyr]

“But it’s just like the flu, why should middle aged people worry?” /s

[napscoordinator]

Are we sure? Where is this anyway? Doesn’t say.

[riverdawg]

“Are we sure? Where is this anyway? Doesn’t say.”

New Orleans, as was clear from the article.

[Hot Tabasco]

According to the report, from 1994 to 2011, there were just over 2,300 new cases of leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease -- diagnosed in the United States.

It could happen to anybody.......

[Theoria]

If he's on a ventilator the odds are really going against him.

[livius]

People have been buying Tylenol around here...it’s the American name for paracetamol, which is safer than ibuprofen, etc. It doesn’t work as fast, unfortunately, IMHO, but it works and does less harm to the body.

[TigerClaws]

Look at Italy.

Stop denying reality. People you know and possibly you will get this at some point.

Denying it is putting others at risk.

[TigerClaws]

The average patient for COVID19 is on e ventilator 18 days.

There are only 100,000 ventilators in all the U. S.

[Balding_Eagle]

“But it’s just like the flu, why should middle aged people worry?” /s

Because they might loose their jobs if people panic?

[PghBaldy]

He tested negative for influenza, but the quacks acted like he just had the flu... Not too smart, especially when the patient is a lawyer.

[dfwgator]

There are two things to control: the virus and the panic.

[null and void]

But but but but this is Boomer Remover! He's not a boomer!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Spktyr]

I’m not mocking those saying people should take reasonable precautions a bit over and above normal flu precautions - I’m one of them - but I’m mocking the people saying that this is nothing but the flu, nothing to see here, move on, don’t worry about it, only old people will die, etc., etc. Lots of them here on FR.

[TigerClaws]

New Orleans area.

He may have been at Mardi Gras parades. Don’t know.

I can tell you from experience that patients that had not visited China, Italy, or other hotspots weee denied testing for several weeks.

We have no idea how many cases are out there.

Four teenagers in Pennsylvania have been diagnosed with it. Not sure of the impact on them.

A cardiologist at Children’s in Philly has died from it.

[Bonemaker]

“It could happen to anybody”

What makes people think it couldn’t happen to them?

[TaxPayer2000]

“But it’s just like the flu, why should middle aged people worry?” /s

Sarcasm like this is so helpful during a crisis...Be sure and celebrate each and every infection and death with your awesome sarcasm, it's so helpful. /s

[DannyTN]

Boris Johnson ordered UK manufacturing to start producing ventilators.