This is actually dumb. As bad as this next sentence is going to sound, these students will never get another learning opportunity like this again. They will be given extra responsibilities, get invaluable experience, and they can actually be super useful when wards go crazy. I think it’s a terrible decision.
wife has a med student with her this next week, had this same discussion wonder if schools are thinking of some liability situation
Yeah unless you lived in the hot zone in Washington, I think catching it in February would still have been incredibly unlikely.
totally agree. I’m shocked they did it, just got the email a few minutes ago about it. they play a role on the inpatient service
Right and why would Italy be suddenly overrun and we haven't. If it was already here how could it jump on communities the way it is only recently
Not at all. Med school is absolutely not regular college of post graduate duty. You literally are training to take care of sick people. Doesn’t matter if the patient has Covid, bacterial meningitis, or TB. You treat the patient. It’s an atrocious and indefensible position. At worst, you could have them take care of all the regular not Covid patients since those will still be there. They could do all the consults and see all the admissions for regular conditions if you were really scared. awful decision
https://www.ketv.com/article/first-...-by-douglas-county-health-department/31570221 But muh Guvner dun told me nuh uhhhh
I live in the town where they film the walking dead. Drove down main street today and it was business as usual. There were a bunch of fucking tourists wandering around taking pictures with zombies and shit. Not ideal.
update: stopped feeling hot/cold, my temp has been in the 96 and 97s range, dry cough every now and then, but feeling better so that's good (knock on wood) stocked up on supplies for a couple weeks, so i still plan on staying in quarantine for however long it takes ordered all nine seasons of dbz that should be getting here tomorrow will it be enough to survive the quarantine? find out next time on dragon ball z
St. Patrick may have saved Ireland but it sounds like he's going to doom America. Quite the heel turn.
Right, but still keep yourself isolated (since you're probably immunocompromised) Worry when you have a stubborn fever.
Couple things... I wonder if my family hasn’t been exposed. Wife tested positive for strep about a month ago but still has a very slight lingering cough, which I thought was kind of weird for strep. Myself, my son (13), and my middle daughter (17) have all complained of a lingering cold for what seems like the last month. Feels like a colds setting in and start to feel shitty and then 12 hours later it’s gone, only to come back in a day or 2. The Rachel Maddow interview mentions the older ladies in the quarantine centers dancing and it helping clear their lungs. Hopefully those of us that due cardio will have a less chance of it building up?
Wife picked up Chinese food for dinner. Said the Applebee’s next door was packed. People really risking it all for eatin good in the neighborhood.
Put this in husker board, but copied it here because reasons: China contained the virus and stopped the spread using its crazy inventiveness/workflow and authoritative reach. The reason 30% of their huge fucking country didn’t get it is because their people are afraid to look bad in the eyes of the government. If they didn’t stop it, we wouldn’t have 80,000 cases, we’d have millions in that country alone. meanwhile, we declared a national emergency and bars and restaurants around the country are almost unaffected celebrating St. Patty’s day because half the country doesn’t give a shit. it won’t affect able bodied 18-40 year olds much so I get the young, drunk and dumb mindset, but this is going to keep the numbers and spread up, filling up hospitals and ICU’s. the WORST part, is that you won’t see the worst for another 2-3 weeks when numbers start ramping up. Meanwhile people will go back to normal life because we haven’t seen the apocalypse immediately in the first week after quarantines and cancellations were given. In a month, when a middle aged man gets a massive heart attack, instead of having an open ICU bed and being saved, he’ll just Code and they’ll call it, or he’ll have life long massive heart damage as a result of poor care. It won’t count as a Covid death and the country will continue to move on, but it will be a direct impact of the virus.
On a state level, probably in areas with clusters of cases. On a national level not until trump dies.
I believe that is the next logical step as we're just a few days behind France and they just locked down the country but we have idiots in charge here
Who knows? It should already be happening but I bet we got the UK route and try for “herd immunity” (aka kill a bunch of old people).
FIL thinks it’s nothing. Besides age he is as high risk as they come. Hasn’t been to the doctor in years and has very apparent health issues. Smokes, alcoholic. No insurance. Doesn’t work and spends his days out socializing.
Along the same lines as the clinical rotations being canceled, someone posted a picture of one of our Urgent Care centers closed yesterday due to Covid. Not sure how that’s even legal.
Harvard just announced they're pulling theirs to train to assist in more functional ways for the period coming. Seems like this might cause some trickle down.
Fair enough. I won't pretend to know anything about that. Comment was more on the organization and approach to the problem that we seem to be totally lacking.