On the Front Line (1 Viewer)

[Dezbelief]

Anybody here in the trenches coming into contact with known cases of Corona Virus? Any FBGs work in essential services that will likely come into contact with CV in the near future? Anybody have friends or family infected? Please share your stories and worries.

 

[Dezbelief]

I am a prescription courier in a town of a little over 100,000 in North Texas. We had our city leaders publicly confirm our first case yesterday. There had been whispers for over a week that there was a case in our town. There are whispers that there are a couple more likely positives in our local hospital awaiting results. 

 

[Cjw_55106]

There is a major Health care company in MN that used the slogan "Make it OK" when talking about mental health. I think the same should be applied here. No reason for whispers of anything. Information should be free flowing and people certainly shouldn't be ashamed if they are positive for the virus. 

 

[ghostguy123]

Registered nurse in the Cleveland are.  Little different than most nurses since I work in adult psychiatry with very sick (mentally) patients.

I am assured to catch this virus at work soon (though might be a few weeks since my vacation started yesterday, though our plans were cancelled).  We have already had a couple scares where we thought patients may have had it, and we were not allowed to transfer the patient to any other part of the hospital system.  NOBODY wants a symptomatic patient who is agitated, aggressive, chasing up a storm, throwing things around the rooms, and doesnt comply with anything whatsoever.

We don't have nearly enough personal protective equipment available, and we have a housekeeping shortage which has forced us to do much of the cleaning ourselves.  

One of the guys I worked with a couple days ago told me two of his coworkers at his other job tested positive.  

Good times

 

[Dezbelief]

Registered nurse in the Cleveland are.  Little different than most nurses since I work in adult psychiatry with very sick (mentally) patients.

I am assured to catch this virus at work soon (though might be a few weeks since my vacation started yesterday, though our plans were cancelled).  We have already had a couple scares where we thought patients may have had it, and we were not allowed to transfer the patient to any other part of the hospital system.  NOBODY wants a symptomatic patient who is agitated, aggressive, chasing up a storm, throwing things around the rooms, and doesnt comply with anything whatsoever.

We don't have nearly enough personal protective equipment available, and we have a housekeeping shortage which has forced us to do much of the cleaning ourselves.  

One of the guys I worked with a couple days ago told me two of his coworkers at his other job tested positive.  

Good times

My wife is a nurse at the state psychiatric hospital most of the patients are homeless or transfers from jail, a few are self admitted. Good Luck Ghostguy!

 

[ghostguy123]

My wife is a nurse at the state psychiatric hospital most of the patients are homeless or transfers from jail

Yep.  No social distancing going on in the homeless shelters

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Yep.  No social distancing going on in the homeless shelters

Just in case we are just assuming that "we are all in this together" .

 

[snogger]

I am concerned about my wife.. I am in IT so am working Full Time from home until further notice.

But she works as a Senior/Disability helper. Basically goes to their houses, cleans for them, takes them shopping for food and essentials, etc. Of course they have family members coming in and out to visit. And her company doesn't provide any type of protection ( mask, gloves, etc..)  So her exposure is higher then most..

Not to mention if she were to catch it from one of them, she could easily spread it to others and most of them are 80+ :(  

 

[Kal El]

Just had a confirmed case in Palm City, FL, where I've been doing electrical work at a retirement community. I'm actually headed elsewhere tomorrow, but they might shut out visitors for a while.

 

[Anarchy99]

As I have been posting in the main COVID-19 thread, my wife works in case management and care planning about an hour north of Boston. They are trying to empty out hospitals of non-virus patients because the existing patients are generally older with other medical issues. So she's been trying to get patients out of the hospital post-haste while taking on a ton of new cases at the same time (and at multiple locations). The hospitals are doubling up people in rooms and converting other rooms to be able to treat triple the number of patients they usually can handle. My wife had 3 elderly patients die today and another (a 35-year-old mother with asthma) not expected to make it through the night. Not just old people, an ample amount of younger folks, too.

Safety precautions for the clinical workers are basically almost non-existent and they are down to reusing gloves and masks and hoping for the best. I have heard stories of nurses and other direct contact workers coming back with positive tests, and it sounds like as long as they don't show any symptoms they need to keep working because they are so short staffed. Bottom line, they can't handle all the sick people AND the regular emergencies (accidents, heart attacks, strokes, overdoses, seizures, etc.)

I could go on and on, but let's just say things are starting to go off the rails here.

 

[prosopis]

I work in ambulatory surgery. Shut down right now but its possible I could get called in if they use our center as an emergency site. Financially I would not mind being called in. 

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

I work in ambulatory surgery. Shut down right now but its possible I could get called in if they use our center as an emergency site. Financially I would not mind being called in. 

In your line of work it seems like your services could be certainly useful. 

 

[Dezbelief]

Worldometer March 23  01:03 GMT Update (The day is reset after midnight GMT+0.)

1. China: 81,054 (+46) cases, 3,261 (+6) deaths
   
2. Italy: 59,138 (+5,560) cases, 5,476 (+651) deaths
   
3. USA: 33,546 (+9,339) cases, 419 (+117) deaths
   
4. Spain: 28,603 (+3,107) cases, 1,756 (+375) deaths
   
5. Germany: 24,873 (+2,509) cases, 94 (+10) deaths
   
6. Iran: 21,638 (+1,028) cases, 1,685 (+129) deaths
   
7. France: 16,018 (+1,559) cases, 674 (+112) deaths
   
8. S. Korea: 8,897 (+98) cases, 104 (+2) deaths
   
9. Switzerland: 7,474 (+611) cases, 98 (+18) deaths
   
10. UK: 5,683 (+665) cases, 281 (+48) deaths
    
11. Netherlands: 4,204 (+573) cases, 179 (+43) deaths
    
12. Austria: 3,580 (+588) cases, 16 (+8) deaths
    
13. Belgium: 3,401 (+586) cases, 75 (+8) deaths
    
14. Norway: 2,263 (+99) cases, 7 deaths
    
15. Sweden: 1,931 (+161) cases, 21 (+1) deaths
    
16. Portugal: 1,600 (+320) cases, 14 (+2) deaths
    
17. Brazil: 1,546 (+368) cases, 25 (+7) deaths
    
18. Canada: 1,470 (+142) cases, 20 (+1) deaths
    
19. Denmark: 1,395 (+69) cases, 13 deaths
    
20. Australia: 1,353 (+281) cases, 7 deaths
    

Worldometer March 24  02:05 GMT Update (The day is reset after midnight GMT+0.)

China: 81,171 (+78) cases, 3,277 (+7) deaths

Italy: 63,927 (+4,789) cases, 6,077 (+601) deaths

USA: 43,734 (+10,168) cases, 553 (+140) deaths

Spain: 35,136 (+6,368) cases, 2,311 (+539) deaths

Germany: 29,056 (+4,183) cases, 123 (+29) deaths

Iran: 23,049 (+1,411) cases, 1,812 (+127) deaths

France: 19,856 (+3,838) cases, 860 (+186) deaths

S. Korea: 8,961 (+64) cases, 111 (+7) deaths

Switzerland: 8,795 (+1,321) cases, 120 (+22) deaths

UK: 6,650 (+967) cases, 335 (+54) deaths

Netherlands: 4,749 (+545) cases, 213 (+34) deaths

Austria: 4,474 (+892) cases, 21 (+5) deaths

Belgium: 3,743 (+342) cases, 88 (+13) deaths

Norway: 2,625 (+240) cases, 10 (+3) deaths

Canada: 2,091 (+621) cases, 24 (+4) deaths

Portugal: 2,060 (+460) cases, 23 (+9) deaths

Sweden: 2,046 (+112) cases, 27 (+6) deaths

Brazil: 1,924 (+378) cases, 34 (+9) deaths

Australia: 1,887 (+278) cases, 7 deaths

Turkey: 1,529 (+293) cases, 37 (+7) deaths

 

[Dezbelief]

  12 hours ago, shader said:

Non-China Reported Cases

2/7 - 277 reported cases

2/12 - 490 reported cases

2/17 - 893 reported cases -  5 dead 

2/22 - 1,834 reported cases - 19 dead

2/26 - 3,650 reported cases - 57 dead

2/29 - 7,155 reported cases - 109 dead - USA 68 cases - 1 dead

3/5 - 17,353 reported cases - 344 dead - USA 210 cases - 12 dead

3/9 - 33,303 reported cases - 881 dead - USA 628 cases - 26 dead

3/13 - 64,567 reported cases - 2,239 dead - USA 2,269 cases - 48 dead

3/18 - 138,059 reported cases - 5,715 dead - USA 9,301 cases - 152 dead

3/19 - 164,646 reported cases - 6,800 dead - USA 14,299 cases - 218 dead

3/20 - 194,589 reported cases - 8,126 dead - USA 19,383 cases - 256 dead

3/21 - 225,885 reported cases - 9,771 dead - USA 26,112 cases - 325 dead

3/22 - 255,584 reported cases - 11,350 dead - USA 33,346 cases - 414 dead

3/23 - 297,299 reported cases - 13,221 dead - USA 43,449 cases - 545 dead

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-J_vry7rclLIGooJ-Cu7OFH8rRRjB51lz1iGkwcTETc/edit#gid=0

Haven't been able to follow much that's happening today, but in these overall numbers, we still are showing no signs of slowing down.

 

[Dezbelief]

Pulling these numbers out of the official thread so I can find them easier when trying to convince local business owners to do more to protect the community. Thank you Bradyfan and Shader! Thank everyone on the front lines fighting for other people! Make no mistake everyone of us are on the frontlines. GL and GB all.

My town is up to 5 confirmed cases all flew into DFW from either Seattle, NYC or Europe and then traveled another 150+ miles before reaching my hometown. The airlines need to be shutdown.