Posted on 04/11/2020 1:20:27 PM PDT by McGruff
A Charlotte woman hasn’t left her house in more than three weeks, yet still tested positive for COVID-19 late Thursday.
“I’m absolutely terrified,” Rachel Brummert, who already has an autoimmune disorder, said. “This is the sickest I’ve ever been and it’s the most scared I’ve ever been. From what I’m hearing about ventilators, it’s scary stuff. I’m really hoping I can wait this out at home.”
At a higher risk for complications due to her underlying condition, Brummert said she listened to the health experts. Other than a trip to the pharmacy more than three weeks ago, she hasn’t left her house once.
“I really thought I was doing everything right,” she said.
Brummert said aside from the pharmacist and her husband, who grocery shops but is temporarily living in a separate room, the only other person she’s come into contact with is a woman who volunteered to drop off groceries at her doorstep once. Brummert said the woman later tested positive for COVID-19.
“I barely had any contact,” she said. “I didn’t even touch her.”
Brummert said she gets the mail every few days, but always wears gloves. However, she didn’t think to wear gloves when bringing in packages from her front porch. In addition, she said she hasn’t eaten takeout.
Brummert has experienced many of the symptoms associated with COVID-19, including cough, fever, headache and trouble breathing, but even so, she said it took several days to meet the criteria to be tested.
Regardless of the source of the infection in her case, Brummert knows her diagnosis is just another reminder that COVID-19 is easy to get and often hard to trace.
“I’ve never had anything like this before,” she said. “I’ve had the flu. This is not the flu. It’s a whole nother monster.”
Bingo.
Yeah she will just think those UV lightboxes will cause cancer LOL she wont touch it..I checked my temp its normal, heck its below normal(97.6) hers is the same. With me I get achy bones but I think its due to the Vitamin D 50,000 that I take once a week(Im Vitamin D deficient) with my Mom its ALL paranoia, she did everything right but she still thinks she will get it from the mail. I told her next time just take the mail and burn it
LOL My gay uncle once visited our house on the farm driving his brand new 1965 forest green Mustang. He got out of the car and my sister exclaimed, "he cloroxed his hair."
He did not "come out" until many decades later but my Mom said later on before she passed away that there had been tells a couple of other times when he was younger.
This just proves that mail and package delivery should not be ignored as a source to contract this virus. Of course that part about her husband is little bit unclear as well. But if he does not have the virus then he can probably be excluded.
Living in fear is very bad for someone’s immune system—and makes them much more vulnerable to any type of illness.
A little courage goes a long way!
on her grocieries
on her mail
on her packages
door handles
or from her pharmacy trip
husband, toilet seat?
Counting on the heat and UVs to do their worst.
You’re absolutely right about the not-quite-alive status of viruses. Sometimes, I’m overly picky about technically-precise terminology — and sometimes, I lean too far toward the vernacular. My H.S. biology teacher would have made me take a remedial lesson.
You’re probably right about the not-quite-life-span on cardboard & paper too. I probably read that somewhere, and it stuck with me. I’m pretty sure that the estimate is 3 days on plastic (e.g. shopping bags). I just gas everything to be sure.
Who is "they"? The doctors?
In 2007, the Spanish Flu was found in a corpse that had been buried in permafrost in Alaska — 90 years after the contagion.
She needs medical help.
I got CNBC to correct an article about finding live viruses on the cruise ship 14 days after it was evacuated. They responded within an hour with an email thanking me.
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Doctors Puzzle Over COVID-19 Lung Problems
WebMD ^ | April 7, 2020 | Brenda Goodman, MA
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““This is the sickest I’ve ever been and it’s the most scared I’ve ever been. I’m really hoping I can wait this out at home.”
not a good idea, lady. if you’re THAT sick you need treatment, and the treatment of choice right now is hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin/zinc for five days, and you need to hustle to a good doctor and get it before you take a sudden turn for the worse and keel over dead ...
If someone is significantly hypoxic a ventilator is the only option
That’s probably a very good idea — AFAIK, the heat is very effective at reducing the not-quite-alive-span of the virus.
The UVs probably help too — but, windows block a lot of UV. Also, you’re only getting UV-A or UV-B from sunlight — the ozone layer completely blocks UV-C. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as the old saying goes — but, you need UV-C to completely sterilize things.
I was out today...Lowe’s, Home Depot, Bojangles...I saw a lot of frightened people out there. (CLT)
It 8s not 30% of patients that reach the point of lung failure as you stated. It is 30% of all patients. Your source:
According to Gattinoni, about 30% of COVID-19 patients who come to the hospital have more classic symptoms of ARDS.
Gattinoni says doctors need to pay attention to how COVID-19 has affected the lungs and breathing of each patient they’re treating before deciding on treatment.
Patients with more classic ARDS-type COVID-19 often need mechanical ventilation right away, which forces air into the lungs to increase oxygen.
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