This is a good story on many levels—but they used a Kaiser source so they didn’t get the full story on how Kaiser is handling the mask shortage:
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3102444/4
“All the cases so far have remained mild, thankfully, although I suspect most are early in the disease process. Ages range from 20-80+. Can’t rely on the chief complaint to be the typical viral syndrome, as I have had one who came in for abdominal pain and another was an older gentleman with altered mental status. Many of them don’t have fever. Several of them have pretty unremarkable lab work, although many have several of the typical lab or imaging abnormalities. Many of these patients are being seen by healthcare workers w/o proper PPE due to atypical complaints. One of the confirmed patients was brought in by EMS without any PPE on whatsoever, although I don’t think they realized that this patient was at risk for having it. Unfortunately, after talking with some of my local EMS friends, they are getting absolutely no education regarding ways to protect themselves, and who they should suspect this in, at least according to them.