Covid-19: We don’t talk about 1-18

Setting this conversation aside from both the COVID-19 period and the issue of insurance, that is largely true in the U.S. I have gold-plated health insurance, I can go anywhere and see anybody, but I don't bother because by the time they will see me I will be recovered (or dead). So I go to el cheapo "immediate care" places instead, where I see a junior doctor from a revolving staff but I see that doctor pronto.

 

a. US hospitals are telling people point black not to go to ER if they have Covid-19 symptoms.

b. if your spouse or loved one has severe Covid-19 symptoms the hospital isn't going to let you visit them. My Dad had said he'd rather my Mum die in his arms than die alone in hospital.

 

Makes sense, why run the risk of infecting people in the ER.

There are probably places where infected people can go, but that information has to be told to the people.

 

They tell people to get in touch with their PCP or urgent care facility who will advise them if they need hospital admission.

 

Oh, very much so, yes. I mentioned that before about a doc who commonly dealt with stuff like cases of sepsis who said NOBODY had come in for about a month when he used to get an average of about one a day.

Obviously people were getting ill but didn't want to 'risk' going to hospital or even the doctors.

 

I can't speak for the USA but, over here, it's a both issue. Some people just aren't going to the hospital or doctors and, even if they do, some people are being put off as JohnR says.

 

No, you've got that wrong.

When I was feeling stomach pain a few years back I rang the 111 service, (the advice line), and spoke to a guy. He went through a list of questions and then put me onto a another person, a woman, who was a cardiology specialist for phone analysis. She decided it might actually be chest pain, (it wasn't), and the ambulance arrived whilst I was finishing the phone call. I was in the operating theatre within about 20 mins of arriving in the hospital The same thing happened with my mum when she had her first stroke... the ambulance arrived whilst we were still on the phone.

The same thing with my mum's elderly next door neighbour who needed an operation which it was being reported at the time in the US meeja took several months, (a hernia which was substantial, IIRC). It was done within a couple of days.

The emergency 'bit' of the NHS actually works pretty well. The standard doctors visit is too slow and can be difficult to get within a reasonable period... that's true. That can, of course, lead to further problems... that's also true.

There can be medical mistakes but they can happen anywhere because they're a function of human error although, obviously, they are more likely to happen if the system is under load and under-resourced, as it's been under the tories since 2010.

But let's not say that emergency covers normally takes days or weeks because that's just not true.

 

Continuing the news of the hobby store I mentioned here, late in May they were ordered closed again. That sucks for them because business will be worse and they did a lot of work modifying the store and worst of all there are people that had to be laid off after only a few weeks of work.

I get that at the beginning we weren't sure how this thing traveled between people and we wanted to maintain the bare minimum communion between people possible (and I fully supported that), but we have experience and better knowledge now. People aren't getting sick from touching things other people touched or being briefly in the area of another person while both are masked. If it was, contact tracing wouldn't work and as we know from developments in more civilized nations it does. It doesn't make sense that if I need a frying pan I can go to a kitchen store with a grocery store attached (named Target), but I can't go to a kitchen store. If I need a shirt, I can go to a clothing store with a grocery store attached (coincidentally also named Target) but I can't go to a clothing store. And don't get me started on what this is doing to Amazon's business.

A few are getting the benefit of the situation that are causing most to suffer. Like in pretty much every great tragedy that befalls mankind, this has also ended up transferring large amounts of money from the masses to the very rich.

 

It's June 1. 105,000 confirmed deaths, 1.8 million confirmed cases. In many states, cases and deaths increasing. The summer boost that we are supposed to get should arrive soon. If, by the end of the month, the trend remains flat, then the autumn will be rough.

 

Al Jazeera on the toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on health care workers in Iran. And, also, fears of a 2nd wave.

 

Wow.
I reported some time ago thge antibody discovery of the combined research study of my Alma Mater Erasmus University and Utrecht University.
They announced to expect the medicine based on it to be on the market within 6 months.
We Dutch rule.
https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2...s-mc-and-utrecht-university/?noredirect=en_US
Corona medicine in the making after discovery Erasmus MC and Utrecht University
Frank Grosveld, professor of cell biology at Erasmus MC, expects the first medicines to be ready in five to six months.


Image credit: GuidoPijper

 

That's amazing news.

 

If it ain't Dutch it ain't much.

 

The article never said what this medicine does, but presumably it's more useful than Uncle Donnie's prescription.

 

From earlier publications I understand it kills the virus in the body, but it's not a vaccin.

 

Why they were ahead of the pack:
https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2...ntastic-but-the-goal-is-still-to-help-people/
“It’s precisely corona virologists like us that are in great demand at the moment, because only a few virologists have dedicated themselves to this disease. Coronaviruses have never been a major medical problem in the past. Now that they are, I’m getting thousands of e-mails from all over the world. Scientists, research institutes, companies, they all want to source knowledge from us because we have been doing research into the various coronaviruses for many years.”