I’m here in AZ. Don’t know anyone infected.
As of two days ago, our infection rate was about 60, one death (over 50 with a lot of conditions). Wal-Mart has water, soft drinks, meat (though not tons), milk, Kleenex, still not TP or paper towels. Traffic in the store was quite normal. Later had to go to Fry’s for some picante sauce. Normal traffic. Same scenario. Most concerning thing was the canned soups/veggie aisles were pretty well picked over. Suggests to me Americans forgot how to cook. News report today said Papago Peak and other hiking trails were overrun (saw a photo: yep!). No parking to get on the hiking trails.
One think is certain: when this is over people will be a lot more fit. Oh, and TX shut down the abortion clinics, so it is “POSSIBLE” that the net impact of the China Virus is to save lives.
Wife knows an 80 yr old woman that got it a few weeks ago, she was hospitalized. Since released and is fine. Tacoma WA, there are no dead bodies on the street, I don’t see ambulances, hearses or military vehicles about...
I am spending time alone and need a puppy.
Buffalo, Erie County NY-87 cases and a few in hospital no deaths that I know of.
Niagara County 10 cases all in quarantine. No deaths that I know of.
I hope you get it
I didn’t believe it from the outset. Have a look at wherearethebodies.com
Ohio order, stay home. (Except to go out and check the hospital???)
Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, GA is overwhelmed. Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta is overwhelmed. These are the best hospital choices in N. Atlanta and they are overwhelmed with critical patients.
Your forgetting that the efforts taken in the past weeks are to ‘prevent’ the very things in your post. To prevent hospitals being overrun and the spread....
In this area we’ve had ‘time’ for our Medical facilities to prepare...and they are indeed prepared. Up until Sat we had ‘zero’ cases...... Our Population is about 13,500 people.
Testing ‘just from that location’ at Hospital Drive-Up began last week.... we now have 4 confirmed cases ‘in less then a week’ and not all test results are back yet. It’s just begun here... In fact you need to consider the US has not yet felt the impact...just in the beginnings.....
What we want is our facilities to be able to handle whatever arrives and spreads here.
FD/EMS/Ambulance. We have not run a -known- case yet as of when I left last shift.
I do believe CV has been out there since before the first of the year. It would explain some of what we have seen and experienced. I work less than a 30 minute drive from DFW Airport TX.
The panic has managed to weed out most of the “my arm has been hurting for 2 weeks and I must go to the hospital by ambulance even though it is 0230” type calls.
South Texas.
County south of here has a few(Matagorda).
We believe a large wave of CCP-19 has passed through this part of Texas and Houston between mid-November and end of January as the symptoms all matched but folks would get test for flu and it didn’t show on normal tests. Co-workers had been back and forth to China ALL YEAR up until the end of December 2019. Had my first illness in 10 years(flu symptoms, throat on fire for 2 weeks, coughing for 3 weeks). About 60% of our office had similar. Doc said it was viral, no flu test b/c only slight fever was had but I take 8 to 10 grams of Vit C daily for years even now. A Dr. Cheng(youtube) has indicated that high dose Vit C can be a preventative for some folks. Hospitals in our area are not flooded locally, they’re all waiting with empty beds for the “massive spike” predicted by the “EXPERTS” and MSM.
WAITING for the antibody test as I’ll get it to verify if I had CCP-19 or not.
NOTE: the more folks that test and have antibodies, the larger the denominator gets and the lower the death rate gets. Put another way, the longer the are no antibody tests the longer the death rate is falsely elevated from reality.
Wife and I are both high risk, wife more so. We are not invincible youngsters with SUPERMAN or SUPERWOMAN on our chests.
Friend in top management for bigger hospital here talked with me about securing more vents, doing more with what they have.
Ordering more test kits, problems with fda approval and error rate.
Planning to segregate corona treatment from main hospital completely. That they consider the scenerio of a significant percent of their staff getting infected.
The surprising part of the discussion to me was hearing that while the doctors were stepping up to the task, a lot of nurses were giving pushback, evading, saying this isn’t what they signed up for, etc.. That while they’re not all like that, it was a big enough percent to be a really major problem and worry as things heat up. That some may just bail and go home.
I didn’t get a sense from him of whether we are underestimating or underestimating the problem, only that they are contingency planning for worse scenerios and worried about vent and testing limits.
He said he wondered why India wasn’t more of a mess, that maybe it’s a sign heat/moisture hampers transmission and that this thing might fade off with the weather. I don’t know if that’s just his thinking or if others in management are thinking similarly.