My daughter is a nurse at a hospital east of San Francisco Bay Area. The number of H1N1 cases have increased over the past couple of weeks. Because of a significant exposure to the virus, she is now on a course of Tamiflu.
Two deaths recently - pneumonia complications.
It’s not over.
its barely even started. Hope your daughter stays healthy. Tamiflu should do the trick.
Hospital Inundated with Potential Flu Cases Palomar Medical Center sees rush of patients complaining of flu-like symptoms
By R. STICKNEY
Updated 1:42 PM PDT, Thu, Jun 18, 2009
AP
A health worker checks a woman at a health post in Mexico City, April 2009.
So many people have shown up at Palomar Medical Center complaining of flu-like symptoms, that hospital staff has set up a triage outside the main building.
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An unusually high number of patients have arrived to the hospital complaining of flu-like symptoms.
Hospital administrators decided they didn’t want the potential flu patients to mix with the other patients in the emergency room according to hospital spokesperson Andy Hoang.
In the span of 6 hours Wednesday, the hospital treated 80 people in their ER. Sixty of those patients complained of flu-like symptoms. On a normal day, the hospital’s ER treats approximately 160 people. On Wednesday, they saw more than 200 patients.
The triage should be operating after 2 p.m. Thursday.
San Diego County’s first fatality from the swine flu was treated at the hospital late last week.
Adela Chevalier, 20, died Monday after having symptoms for just a few days, according to doctors at Palomar Medical Center.
Chevalier felt ill last Friday and gradually got worse throughout the weekend, doctors said. On Monday, her mother took her to the ER at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido where she had to be put into a wheelchair because she was too weak to walk.
“She had various symptoms, low grade fever, history of cough, severe muscle pains.”said Dr. Don Herip.
About an hour and a half later, preliminary tests showed that Adela had the H1N1 virus. By mid afternoon she was dead.
Chevalier’s death is the seventh swine-flu death in California; 44 people have died around the United States. Most of those victims were less than 50 years of age.
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Hospital Erects Triage Tents To Handle Rush of Flu Victims
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Hospital Erects Triage Tents To Handle Rush of Flu Victims
Palomar Hospital is inundated with patients complaining of flu-like symptoms following death of Escondido woman.
The fear and concerns surrounding the swine flu related death of an Escondido woman Monday night is affecting emergency operations at Palomar Hospital. So a triage tent was set up outside of the emergency room entrance of the hospital to accomodate people suffering from flu-like symptoms. In a span of six hours Wednesday night...eighty people came into Palomar Hospital’s emergency room...75-percent of them complaining of flu like symptoms. Hospital spokesman, Andy Hahn, says this severely strains the hospital’s medical resources so they’re taking this extraordinary measure. People will be screened away from the general population of the hospital. Hospital officials say the triage tent will remain up for as long as the demand for medical care from flu like symptoms persists.