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This really comes down to an ethical question, and this will likely be debated in ethics classes hundreds of years from now about the Covid Pandemic. What is an acceptable loss of life vs complete disruption of global society/economy? The issue is that in this case we just don’t know how many...

Thats what you don’t understand. The country would not just move on. The reason that having 500k die from cancer or 66k from drunk driving or whatever current disease you pick is an acceptable loss is because we know within a reasonable margin of error how many we have every year. For that...

We aren’t even allowed to test in my hospital if you are flu negative unless you have significant symptoms and a significant travel history or known contact. Otherwise we just say go home and self quarantine for 14 days.

That is great!!! We live in the dark ages here in rural KY. The state takes 4 days. We are investigating maybe using LabCorp or possibly Mayo as they can supposedly get us results in 1-2 days. Still after that before it can be confirmed you have to send another sample to the state for final...

I never stated a vaccine was a quick fix. And I think 12 months is pretty agressive in getting one out. Actually, because this virus spreads easily and is relatively mild in 80 percent of the cases, this is actually a perfect disease to gain innate immunity. A truly virulent disease is...

Yes this is a possibility, or it mutates. However, at some point there will be some degree of immunity in the community. This will significantly slow the spread of the virus. The flu shot mutates every year, andwe do our best guess to figure out what to put in the vaccine. That could...

The end game is immunity. if this does not slow down or abate by itself, it becomes an endemic disease, just like HIV, Hep B, Flu, the common cold, etc. Eventually either the virus runs out of people to infect or we gain immunity via vaccination. How long this will take is anybody’s guess, but...

China was also more aggressive in testing, quarantining people, and eventually locking down parts of the country. We have done none of those things.

that is a smart move. I see almost zero chance they will be open come April 1. France is a hotbed and hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down thus far. I suspect Disney is giving end dates for it’s parks to prevent mass panic. Much better headline of “suspending till xxx” than “suspending...

This was a Medicaid patient. Someone with a $250 copay and conisirance on the ambulance would never do that. We actually said to him nearly that exact same line. Said you could have cost someone their life.

And that is why I no longer get on Facebook. Forums can get pretty heated at times and there is pretty rampant misinformation but Facebook is truly the worst for misinformation. I found that on Facebook you can get ganged up on pretty quickly if you have an unpopular opinion by someone’s...

When healthcare is free that’s what people do. I once had a patient sign into the ED, get triaged to the end of the line because it was a cold. Then go home, call EMS, come in via ambulance because they thought it would be faster. They still went to the back of the line. It is incredibly...

She should be sued by the AAP. The amount of man hours that I and many other healthcare providers have wasted on vaccine education because of her cannot be understated. That being said Lost amid the Corona chaos is the most infectious disease known to man, the measles. By WHO estimates, in...

In our hospital, all our hand sanitizer and masks are being stolen. We now have them at the nurses station only as we are also running very low on PPE supplies.

I work exclusively in an ICU taking care of critically ill patients. There are days when I am out of vents (ventilators) and CPAPs and High flow nasal canulas and forcing people who may have benefited from another day of higher level therapy, but have had to bump them off a little early and...

She is my public enemy number one. She has caused me so much heartache and time regarding vaccine education.

If you look at my posts, albeit I never posted the “It’s just the flu” on here, as I didn’t join but a couple weeks ago, but fully acknowledge I was dead wrong. my wife will definitely State that I was harping that. Back when we cancelled our trip to Asia due to the Coronavirus in January she...

I doubt they would shoot people as a first line option if ever. Tear gas would be more likely if force was used at all. Also they would only be brought in if people were repeatedly violating quarantine, but if no one listens and continues to endanger the health of a country, I believe they...

I am well aware of what happened in Wuhan. I was following this since mid Jan. As we HAD (sadly cancelled) a trip to Shanghai, Beijing, HK, and Tokyo to hit up Disney and the Great Wall that has since been cancelled. Back then I said no way this happens in the US. We are so much better than...

It fails of the small percent of people are sick. You can threaten with execution like China did or invoke hefty fines or jail time to keep people in line. Is this Marshall law at this point. Yep, but it may be what it takes to prevent this from killing thousands upon thousands on the US.