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Nzoner's Game Room>***NON-POLITICAL COVID-19 Discussion Thread***
JakeF 10:28 PM 02-26-2020
A couple of reminders...

Originally Posted by Bwana:
Once again, don't come in this thread with some kind of political agenda, or you will be shown the door. If you want to go that route, there is a thread about this in DC.
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
People, there is a lot of good information in this thread, let's try to keep the petty bickering to a minimum.

We all have varying opinions about the impact of this, the numbers, etc. We will all never agree with each other. But we can all keep it civil.

Thanks!

Click here for the original OP:

Spoiler!

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Strongside 07:27 PM 03-08-2020
Well, my mom works as a nurse at Menorah (not in the unit the patient was diagnosed) and never gets sick. She’s been down with a low grade fever and dry cough since Friday morning. If she doesn’t feel better in the AM, she’s going in to get tested.

She’s only in her mid 50’s and is in excellent health, but this is scary shit nonetheless.
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eDave 07:29 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Strongside:
Well, my mom works as a nurse at Menorah (not in the unit the patient was diagnosed) and never gets sick. She’s been down with a low grade fever and dry cough since Friday morning. If she doesn’t feel better in the AM, she’s going in to get tested.

She’s only in her mid 50’s and is in excellent health, but this is scary shit nonetheless.
Now it hits close to home. Damn man. Will be thinking of and wishing for the best.
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TLO 07:46 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Strongside:
Well, my mom works as a nurse at Menorah (not in the unit the patient was diagnosed) and never gets sick. She’s been down with a low grade fever and dry cough since Friday morning. If she doesn’t feel better in the AM, she’s going in to get tested.

She’s only in her mid 50’s and is in excellent health, but this is scary shit nonetheless.
Don't let it overwhelm you. Low grade fever and dry cough could be a myriad of things. I'm sure she'll be just fine.

Keep us updated! Best wishes that it's nothing more than a cold
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suzzer99 09:02 PM 03-08-2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus...ergamo_in_the/

Originally Posted by :
I still remember my night shift a week ago spent without any rest, waiting for a call from the microbiology department. I was waiting for the results of a swab taken from the first suspect case in our hospital, thinking about what consequences it would have for us and the hospital. If I think about it, my agitation for one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I have seen what is happening. Well, the situation is now nothing short of dramatic. No other words come to mind. The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. One after the other, these unfortunate people come to the emergency room. They have far from the complications of a flu. Let's stop saying it's a bad flu. In my two years working in Bergamo, I have learned that the people here do not come to the emergency room for no reason. They did well this time too. They followed all the recommendations given: a week or ten days at home with a fever without going out to prevent contagion, but now they can't take it anymore. They don't breathe enough, they need oxygen. Drug therapies for this virus are few.
Originally Posted by :
Because that's the difference (now I get a little technical): in classical flu, besides that it infects much less population over several months, cases are complicated less frequently: only when the virus has destroyed the protective barriers of our airways and as such it allows bacteria (which normally resident in the upper airways) to invade the bronchi and lungs, causing a more serious disease. Covid 19 causes a banal flu in many young people, but in many elderly people (and not only) a real SARS because it invades the alveoli of the lungs directly, and it infects them making them unable to perform their function. The resulting respiratory failure is often serious and after a few days of hospitalization, the simple oxygen that can be administered in a ward may not be enough. Sorry, but to me, as a doctor, it's not reassuring that the most serious are mainly elderly people with other pathologies. The elderly population is the most represented in our country and it is difficult to find someone who, above 65 years of age, does not take at least a pill for high blood pressure or diabetes.

I can also assure you that when you see young people who end up intubated in the ICU, pronated or worse, in ECMO (a machine for the worst cases, which extracts the blood, re-oxygenates it and returns it to the body, waiting for the lungs to hopefully heal), all this confidence for your young age goes away. And while there are still people on social media who boast of not being afraid by ignoring the recommendations, protesting that their normal lifestyle habits have "temporarily" halted, the epidemiological disaster is taking place. And there are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopedists, we are only doctors who suddenly become part of a single team to face this tsunami that has overwhelmed us.
3 weeks ago Italy had 3 confirmed cases. Now they're overwhelmed.
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Reerun_KC 09:04 PM 03-08-2020
How many dead world wide so far?
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Fat Elvis 09:12 PM 03-08-2020
These people typify why we are about to enter a giant storm in the US....

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...67LViIQ7eyBCtU
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Eleazar 09:14 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis:
These people typify why we are about to enter a giant storm in the US....

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...67LViIQ7eyBCtU
Good lord. Morons
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cdcox 09:14 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis:
These people typify why we are about to enter a giant storm in the US....

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...67LViIQ7eyBCtU
This is within the realm of expected behaviors within a population of thousands. Policies need to account for this.
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RINGLEADER 09:15 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Reerun_KC:
How many dead world wide so far?
3,830, up from 3600 yesterday.

Still want to see how China has stunted the cases and deaths. There is no evidence that sequestering does much good at this point but I guess hauling people away in boxes might do the trick...
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cdcox 09:18 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by RINGLEADER:
3,830, up from 3600 yesterday.

Still want to see how China has stunted the cases and deaths. There is no evidence that sequestering does much good at this point but I guess hauling people away in boxes might do the trick...
They are either fudging the data or fudging the data and imposing police state tactics.
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eDave 09:18 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis:
These people typify why we are about to enter a giant storm in the US....

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...67LViIQ7eyBCtU
Is a answering a survey before I can read an article becoming a thing?
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suzzer99 09:22 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by RINGLEADER:
3,830, up from 3600 yesterday.

Still want to see how China has stunted the cases and deaths. There is no evidence that sequestering does much good at this point but I guess hauling people away in boxes might do the trick...
They put all of Hubei province on lockdown with orders to shoot if anyone is out on the street.
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Eleazar 09:23 PM 03-08-2020
The chances that China is honestly reporting the number of cases is zero
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Reerun_KC 09:24 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by RINGLEADER:
3,830, up from 3600 yesterday.

Still want to see how China has stunted the cases and deaths. There is no evidence that sequestering does much good at this point but I guess hauling people away in boxes might do the trick...
With 7.7 billion people worldwide wide. At what point do you become concerned?
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BigRedChief 09:26 PM 03-08-2020
Originally Posted by Strongside:
Well, my mom works as a nurse at Menorah (not in the unit the patient was diagnosed) and never gets sick. She’s been down with a low grade fever and dry cough since Friday morning. If she doesn’t feel better in the AM, she’s going in to get tested.

She’s only in her mid 50’s and is in excellent health, but this is scary shit nonetheless.
your going to worry. So will she. Just try to focus in on the facts. This is just a new version of the flu. She’s in excellent health. It will run its course like every other flu she or you have ever had. No one in excellent health before catching the virus has been hospitalized in the USA.

What’s not normal is how it’s spread. Remember SARS a few years ago? It caused symptoms right away. This virus can remain dormant for 10 days without symptoms. That’s why it’s a pandemic risk to all of us. But, again, don’t focus on a worse case scenerio, keep telling yourself this over and over, she’s in excellent health to tolerate a case of the flu.
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