This is ridiculous. It mentions that the woman was in a Special Olympics event, and from what little I can learn, it appears to me that she may have had Downs Syndrome. This is a condition that predisposes people to various respiratory problems, and once upon a time few people with this condition lived much beyond their twenties.
Even so, whether the patient has other conditions or not, sealing her up in a plastic bag is ridiculous. This is not a disease from outer space or even an ugly hemorrhagic fever like Ebola or yellow fever. The common cold is a corona virus.
“The common cold is a corona virus.” Sigh.
I havent been keeping up with this story. She could have been a coach or staff. She was also at the VFW
Perhaps part of this is that I dont think people really know what they are dealing with..so perhaps that containment is a precaution
“As for staff coming and going day-by-day, KOMO News is told they’re following infection control protocol. “We’ve learned that the virus is volatile, unpredictable,” Killian said. Patients have gone from showing no symptoms to being rushed to the hospital in an hour”
The hospital has fancy toys, so they want to show off. It is the same with the police and fire departments when they get new toys.
There is a big difference between SARS-COV-II aka as Novel Coronavirus and one of the common cold coronaviruses.
You need to educate your self.
Go to youtube and watch the MedCram video titled “How Coronavirus Kills”.
If you want to get an idea of how quickly this thing spreads and what percent end up in the hospital and what percent die, and the threats to our healthcare system, then watch youtube videos put out by Peak Perforance.
This is ridiculous. It mentions that the woman was in a Special Olympics event, and from what little I can learn, it appears to me that she may have had Downs Syndrome. This is a condition that predisposes people to various respiratory problems, and once upon a time few people with this condition lived much beyond their twenties.
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Don’t confuse them with facts. Respiratory problems including acute respiratory distress syndrome are indeed by far the most frequent cause of hospital admissions as well as the leading cause of death of persons with Down Syndrome. The HYSTERIA on these boards is becoming palpable.
You may be right. On the other hand, health workers need as much protection as possible, and peace of mind, to work effectively. And it’s good preparation just in case the virus rapidly mutates to something much worse.
Naturally occurring coronavirus do not:
-Encapsulate and survive on inorganic surfaces for 14-28 days
-Cause pneumonia
-Survive in feces
-Survive in dead bodies after the temperature of the body drops below 86 °F
-Make the host contagious prior to the host becoming symptomatic
However, pneumonia viruses, such as the hanta viruses do all of the above.
It's way past time to stop pretending that COVID-19 is a naturally occurring coronavirus.
It is probably a man-are combination of a coronavirus found in horseshoe bats and a hanta virus from a rodent common to China.
No, it is not a bio-weapon. At least not yet, as the PRC has not, or could not develop a vaccine for it.
Nor, was it deliberately released. The release is probably due to a mistake by a "clumsy insider."
The R-naught for COVID-19 has been documented on at least three occasions as 7 or higher (7, 10, and 14). Given 3660 deaths to date and 59,866 recovered patients, the death rate [=deaths/(recovered+deaths) = 3660/(59,866 + 3600)] is 5.8%.
Because it encapsulates, and based on the results from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Taiwan where it is already warm and humid, COVID-19 is NOT going to "go away in May" as do naturally occurring coronaviruses.
COVID-19 is NOT the Zombie Apocalypse, nor is it The End of The World As We Know It, BUT, it is NOT "business as usual," either.
A webinar conducted in February by the American Hospital Association predicts that there could be as many as 96 million cases, 4.9 million people hospitalized, and 480,000 deaths from COVID-19 before it runs its course.
Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV).
This woman isn’t a Nebraskan, she’s from the UK. She knew she was sick and she was told to quarantine herself, instead she chose to try to infect as many people as possible.