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The beach crowds at Spring Break (whose partiers brought back Covid - 19 to their colleges)
The crowds on Bourbon Street during the St. Patrick's Day block long alcohol-hazed night.
The oblivious crowds at D.C.'s Cherry Blossom Festival ...
American young people seem blissfully ambling into the arms of our most recent plague.
Last check before my weekend hospital gauntlet,
Louisiana was reporting 479 confirmed cases of COVID-19, one of the
highest numbers in the country.
Ten people had died.
The majority of
cases are in New Orleans, which now has one confirmed case for every
1,000 residents.
New Orleans had held Mardi Gras celebrations just two
weeks before its first patient, with more than a million revelers on its
streets.
A respiratory therapist there told a shuddering story to a reporter.
Many of his patients are relatively young, in their 40s and 50s,
and have minimal, if
any, preexisting conditions in their charts.
He is overwhelmed, stunned
by the manifestation of the infection, both its speed and intensity.
" This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people.
Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then
all of a sudden,
they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down
and can’t breathe at all.”
“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus
patient go bad.
I was like, ‘Holy shit, this is not the flu.’
Watching
this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions
coming out of his tube and out of his mouth.
"The coronavirus patients have been having a lot of secretions
that are actually pink
because they’re filled with blood cells that are
leaking into their airways.
They are essentially drowning in their own
blood and fluids because their lungs are so full.
So we’re constantly
having to suction out the secretions every time we go into their rooms.”
“Before this, we were all joking. It was grim hospital humor.
If you are exposed to
the virus and test positive and go on quarantine, you get paid.
We were
all joking: I want to get the coronavirus because then I get a paid
vacation from work.
But once I saw these patients with it, I was like,
‘Holy shit, I do not want to catch this and I don’t want anyone I know
to catch this.’
New CDC data reveals that 40% of those hospitalized with the coronavirus
were from age 2o to 54.
This is a novel (brand new) virus ...
There is NO TEXTBOOK for it.
Researchers and physicians are learning as they go,
while the virus seems to be changing the rules as it mutates.
Do what you can to stay well. Be vigilant, be prudent, be safe.
NO ONE IS IMMUNE
They all got together and had no idea.
ReplyDeleteAll events have been shut down in my state for two weeks. No movie theaters, no churches.
Lucky for us God is with us wherever we are ... no church needed.
DeleteI have always believed in physical media, so Midnight is groaning that he will have re-watch Tremors, the first one, for the 10th time! :-)
Hi Roland - well that was graphic and I'm sure what's like for the health workers on the inside - I knew it would be nasty ... and guessed that in January, when I saw China erecting hospitals and putting in ventilating machines - the writing was on the wall ... just we've taken longer to realise the severity of the situation.
ReplyDeleteTake very good care of you ... with thoughts - Hilary
Sometimes it takes graphic to make some younger folk to take notice and make changes. You take very good care of yourself! :-)
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