Chicken soup and apple juice got me through my covid experience
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It has to be Thai chicken soup to make me feel better.
Lost our first doctor to Covid.
Age 33.
Blew through infection records today. My calculations no longer hold water. Cannot predict time of overload, but it's going to happen any day. Do not know what our drug stockpile is like.
Can't reach contacts in public service. Their phones are all off. Guessing a large scale meeting is running. Probably to set up field units.
Age 33.
Blew through infection records today. My calculations no longer hold water. Cannot predict time of overload, but it's going to happen any day. Do not know what our drug stockpile is like.
Can't reach contacts in public service. Their phones are all off. Guessing a large scale meeting is running. Probably to set up field units.
Jesus, I would not want to be in your shoes. Take care of you and yours.
I'm not in any personal danger. My centre is not treating cases of the disease, though that may have to change in future.
Non Covid medical demand is down through the floor as the population adjusts, so I have thumbs to twiddle at home. Quitting the public service was a good move in the past, and buying our own home oxygen concentrator might yet prove a better move of late. I tried to get friends to do the same, and a few did.
It doesn't help the sense of doom developing though.
Good luck robin, am pleased you’re relatively safe and prepared.
We, or at least I felt a sense of doom back in January when our rates were exploding and our nhs were on their knees and it’s not pleasant.
It’s mad how quickly the population forgets this though, now people are out and about enjoying a pint with their mates.
Mentioning india to some and you see they want to blank it out of their thoughts.
Ah, people deserve a break. I'm happy for the ordinary people in the UK enjoying ordinary things once more.
Yes indeed, I forgot to mention that I had a smile on my face the entire night
I'm happy for the ordinary people in the UK enjoying ordinary things once more.
it was nice to see people enjoying themselves - after so long, there was a nice vibe.Ed:eek thread crossing soz
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Good news- the colonoscopy prep is over. Still have a stiff neck on the left side.
Bad news: It's Monday.
Bad news: It's Monday.
Some good news out of Tanzania
edition.cnn.com
Sure makes a difference if your leader has a working set of frontal lobes, as Hassan was vice President under Magufuli, and saw him spiral to death from Covid. She was able to change course. Bolsonaro cannot, a sure sign of medial frontal dysfunction, where the same error is infinitely repeated, no learning possible.
If Tanzania gets vaccine supplies they now stand a chance.
Good news locally:
Health Ministry says we have more than 50% oversupply on oxygen demand, plus 2 hospitals are now equipped to generate and bottle it for the others. Additional cylinders are coming, on top of that from foreign suppliers.
Our local counting is likely to be better than I thought. Covid testing is being done on all sudden death cases, even if autopsies are on hold. Path Chief in south is a relative, and they have no PPE- rerouted to frontline.
Over the weekend new case count dropped by half, like every other weekend everywhere, but we had a bunch discharged from hospital(maybe premptively?) So the projected overload was staved off for now.
The total caseload is too high to imagine we won't end up there though, it'll be a week or so before new ones get bad enough to be admitted, and under 40 age deaths are continuing here and there.
Looks like the plan is to try home care for longer to keep space open in hospitals, and predictably there are more deaths from homes now. They are giving you a pulse oximeter, and a cylinder/nebuliser to use at home, so that's pretty decent. Monitoring the cases there is being run by local County level medical officers.
The system is strained to near maximum, but still holding. If the infection rate drops from the lockdown we might skate clear, but it's really uncertain. There is no report of bed expansion plans, we are betting it all on the lockdown.
Tanzanian president ditches late predecessor's rejection of masks
Tanzania's new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan has stressed the importance of face masks in fighting COVID-19, ditching one of the most controversial policies of her late coronavirus-sceptic predecessor.
edition.cnn.com
Sure makes a difference if your leader has a working set of frontal lobes, as Hassan was vice President under Magufuli, and saw him spiral to death from Covid. She was able to change course. Bolsonaro cannot, a sure sign of medial frontal dysfunction, where the same error is infinitely repeated, no learning possible.
If Tanzania gets vaccine supplies they now stand a chance.
Good news locally:
Health Ministry says we have more than 50% oversupply on oxygen demand, plus 2 hospitals are now equipped to generate and bottle it for the others. Additional cylinders are coming, on top of that from foreign suppliers.
Our local counting is likely to be better than I thought. Covid testing is being done on all sudden death cases, even if autopsies are on hold. Path Chief in south is a relative, and they have no PPE- rerouted to frontline.
Over the weekend new case count dropped by half, like every other weekend everywhere, but we had a bunch discharged from hospital(maybe premptively?) So the projected overload was staved off for now.
The total caseload is too high to imagine we won't end up there though, it'll be a week or so before new ones get bad enough to be admitted, and under 40 age deaths are continuing here and there.
Looks like the plan is to try home care for longer to keep space open in hospitals, and predictably there are more deaths from homes now. They are giving you a pulse oximeter, and a cylinder/nebuliser to use at home, so that's pretty decent. Monitoring the cases there is being run by local County level medical officers.
The system is strained to near maximum, but still holding. If the infection rate drops from the lockdown we might skate clear, but it's really uncertain. There is no report of bed expansion plans, we are betting it all on the lockdown.
Just went out for a break, and here's what the outside world looks like:
Beat-up.
Having isolated for most of the time, I didn't see the changes gradually. They hit as an accumulated shock.
So many closed businesses. Many demolitions and removals. Houses lacking outside maintenance. Places for sale or lease.
It's like a force 3 tornado hit the entire metro. The pandemic caused a lost year in more ways than one.
It will take the better part of a generation to recover, because it's global.
Beat-up.
Having isolated for most of the time, I didn't see the changes gradually. They hit as an accumulated shock.
So many closed businesses. Many demolitions and removals. Houses lacking outside maintenance. Places for sale or lease.
It's like a force 3 tornado hit the entire metro. The pandemic caused a lost year in more ways than one.
It will take the better part of a generation to recover, because it's global.
And still quite some people simply refuse to see it as it is...a global catastrophy . Already .
My favorite cash-only Chinese take-out place is still running. Amazing.
I wonder when they will start accepting digital yuan?
I wonder when they will start accepting digital yuan?
I hear China, Russia and other countries opened up a marketplace for Oil decoupled from the US$ . Rumour has it Oil is even traded for other commodities, in case the asking country is simply short of liquidity . I like to think this explains a lot of the hostile rheotric against China and Russia in past years .
Probably not long for (digital) Yuan payment to chinese vendors in the USA .
If I find the time, I'll fill you guys in to what's happening in Germany . It's beyond "How curageous, my friend." . They are basically opening up the country at around 10% fully vaccinated people .Schools etc. open . Restrictions dialled back to minimum, and as of today not applicable anymore to "vaccinated" and "discharged/healthy after infection" people . Like when its comes to lets say dining out . Or going shopping .
Yeah . It's madness .
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Man we can hear the ringside bell ring...
75% coverage might be sufficient, though Dr. Campbell reports B1.167 from India has been detected in ? Bolton?
So far the UK vaccination effort is about the best in the world, it might hold up.
Covax delivered another batch of O-AZ at 11am today, including my second dose? Have a time set for 16/5 but no place.
Our Institutions MOH came on TV to talk about the cheapest possible way to expand capacity: convalescent beds. They want to decant ward loads without spending more on the high end ICU/HDU units. Continuing the idea of emptying the working wards, which means they are making room.
So, I want to know where all that extra oxygen is going? Not to low dependency units with patients getting better, surely? If we are not reinforcing the high end care, it is going to get bad.
Look at this:
Autopsy ordered after woman dies in bus shed | Loop Trinidad & Tobago
A post mortem has been ordered to confirm the cause of death of 39-year-old Dalia Jack. Jack died at about 3pm yesterday at a bus shed near Buccoo Junction, Shirvan Road, Tobago. Residents of the area heard
Or this:
Autopsy ordered as woman dies after having ‘trouble breathing’ | Loop Trinidad & Tobago
Police are calling on citizens who have been experiencing flu-like symptoms to seek medical treatment, especially a COVID-19 test. “This is not the environment in which to assume you just have a cold and all will be fine. It is
Going to say that keeping folks out of hospital is not a winning plan. Also... who is doing these autopsies?? No Pathologist I know is equipped to prevent infection, so are these special cases?
Someone should let your doc know that it goes in the other endGood news- the colonoscopy prep is over. Still have a stiff neck on the left side.
Bad news: It's Monday.
75% vaccinated. Only the older people. Hardly anyone under 40 in the U.K. has been vaccinated. These are the people, eating out, pubbing, clubbing, partying, going back to the gyms, etc.etc. The blinkers being worn in the U.K. are also rose coloured. There is this myth, younger people are not getting sick, but as you have said above. This is simply not the case.Man we can hear the ringside bell ring...
75% coverage might be sufficient, though Dr. Campbell reports B1.167 from India has been detected in ? Bolton?
So far the UK vaccination effort is about the best in the world, it might hold up.
Covax delivered another batch of O-AZ at 11am today, including my second dose? Have a time set for 16/5 but no place.
Our Institutions MOH came on TV to talk about the cheapest possible way to expand capacity: convalescent beds. They want to decant ward loads without spending more on the high end ICU/HDU units. Continuing the idea of emptying the working wards, which means they are making room.
So, I want to know where all that extra oxygen is going? Not to low dependency units with patients getting better, surely? If we are not reinforcing the high end care, it is going to get bad.
Look at this:
Sudden respiratory arrest, public bus stop. What is wrong with this picture? At least 2 things.Autopsy ordered after woman dies in bus shed | Loop Trinidad & Tobago
A post mortem has been ordered to confirm the cause of death of 39-year-old Dalia Jack. Jack died at about 3pm yesterday at a bus shed near Buccoo Junction, Shirvan Road, Tobago. Residents of the area heardwww.looptt.com
Or this:
Another one in her 30s. This shouldn't be happening.Autopsy ordered as woman dies after having ‘trouble breathing’ | Loop Trinidad & Tobago
Police are calling on citizens who have been experiencing flu-like symptoms to seek medical treatment, especially a COVID-19 test. “This is not the environment in which to assume you just have a cold and all will be fine. It is
Going to say that keeping folks out of hospital is not a winning plan. Also... who is doing these autopsies?? No Pathologist I know is equipped to prevent infection, so are these special cases?
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