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To: sockmonkey

Students - self quarantine. What could go wrong?


305 posted on 03/03/2020 4:52:13 PM PST by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

NC positive guy..

.... The Wake County patient traveled through Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Feb. 22, airport officials said.

The patient was not experiencing symptoms at the time, and “there was no identifiable risk from this case to other travelers,” officials said....

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Unreal.

No identifiable risk. Got it.


310 posted on 03/03/2020 4:58:27 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: LilFarmer

UK

Interesting read, and can apply to the US as well:

“I work as a doctor in an intensive care unit (ICU). It is a speciality (like anaesthesia its parent speciality) which most of the public have little understanding of unless they have required our services. What is in no doubt is that ICU sits at the centre of all that is necessary for keeping alive what may be a very large number of patients who will develop severe Covid-19.

ICU treats patients whose lives are at risk or whose organs have failed. Severe Covid-19 leads mostly to lung failure but also causes kidney and cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) failure. All these are rapidly fatal without intense and prompt treatments only available in ICU. In simple terms, treatments include a ventilator taking over the patient’s breathing while the patient is anaesthetised (placed in an induced coma), a dialysis machine cleaning the blood and drugs or machines supporting the heart and blood pressure. The reality of care is, of course, considerably more complex and highly intensive...

More at link

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/icu-doctor-nhs-coronavirus-pandemic-hospitals?CMP=share_btn_tw


311 posted on 03/03/2020 4:58:33 PM PST by LilFarmer
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