This thing needs more than ‘gowned up with masks’. That protocol did nothing to protect the health care workers in China before they knew what this was.
In the case of the ICU being the isolation ward...it’s not just for infectious stuff. My dad was in there after a heart attack. There was no ‘isolation’ for him. All the ICU rooms were connected via sliding door to a central desk.
It only takes one case and everybody else in the ICU will have this, shared air supply like that ship.
Oman - 2 cases.
So now we have cases in Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq (suspected) and Afghanistan
Oman reports first two cases of coronavirus - TV
Reuters
February 24, 2020
9:12 AM EST
Yes the Iranians figured that one out fast... the first day it was regular hospital garb, the second was the hazmat type suits.
Double gloved, full face mask over the n95.
I think they are doing well.
And if you are in podunk Vermont, in a 50 bed hospital on the Canadian border...the ICU has like six beds.
You cannot possibly believe they are going to have a negative pressure isolation room do you? Most ERs with isolation rooms just have them on the other side of the ED—and most of the time they are occupied by psych patients.
This is my experience.
If they really needed to be isolated in the rural areas they were air transported to Dartmouth Hitchcock.
If you go to larger cities larger hospitals they are more used to dealing with the nasty stuff. But that places are going to be filled up with time of year.