This is terrifying.Here in NYC, they are dying younger partly because there are not enough ventilators. A news reporter found out here is a new binding rule for EMS/paramedics & private ambulance companies: that if they get to a residence and the patient has no pulse or is in cadiac arrest, they are not to revive them. They cannot be saved as there are no ventilators. NO CPR is to be performed as they think the Coronavirus could be spread that way to the EMS team as they do chest compressions and force the person to exhale. A third of our EMS workers and hospital healthcare workers are already out sick with the Coronavirus and we're just at the start of this. They are also not to transport them to the hospital which is already overtaxed. It's up to the city to figure out how to pick up the bodies.
In the hospitals now, as there are not enough ventilators, the best they can do is tell someone that they are going to induce a coma and put them on oxygen (and HOPE the patient survives on his own.) They don't have anything else they can do without a ventilator. There have been news stories by family members, where the patient knew they would likely not make it out of the coma and they insisted on talking to their families one more time, and the healthcare workers waited for them to finish the call. And yes, those patients died. Patients, with no underlying conditions, and younger, that might have had a long, successful life afterward, if they only had the help of a ventilator to get through it.Now the hospitals are short on oxygen.
When a patient is on a ventilator, they are on an average of 20 days. The incubation period for the Coronavirus is generally 5-14 days. So they are always behind having enough ventilators for everyone. "Patient Zero," the one who unfortunately started it all here in NYS, in New Rochelle, finally got out of the hospital a couple days ago. So he was in critical condition for a month.
I don't know if this made the national news. We now have refrigerated morgue trucks. They are the 18 wheelers with a refrigerated trailer on the back. Bodies are being fork-lifted into them. I guess it's partly because they want as few people touching them as possible. All the guys doing the work are wearing PPE up the wazoo. You can Google for the horrifying photos. Fema is sending 87 more morgue trucks.
I'm worried about some of the smaller cities without a lot of ventilators. There are still too many asymptomatic & pre-symptomatic people walking around, infecting others. And a number of people may show up at the hospital at the same time.
This is so horrificHere in NYC, they are dying younger partly because there are not enough ventilators. A news reporter found out here is a new binding rule for EMS/paramedics & private ambulance companies: that if they get to a residence and the patient has no pulse or is in cadiac arrest, they are not to revive them. They cannot be saved as there are no ventilators. NO CPR is to be performed as they think the Coronavirus could be spread that way to the EMS team as they do chest compressions and force the person to exhale. A third of our EMS workers and hospital healthcare workers are already out sick with the Coronavirus and we're just at the start of this. They are also not to transport them to the hospital which is already overtaxed. It's up to the city to figure out how to pick up the bodies.
In the hospitals now, as there are not enough ventilators, the best they can do is tell someone that they are going to induce a coma and put them on oxygen (and HOPE the patient survives on his own.) They don't have anything else they can do without a ventilator. There have been news stories by family members, where the patient knew they would likely not make it out of the coma and they insisted on talking to their families one more time, and the healthcare workers waited for them to finish the call. And yes, those patients died. Patients, with no underlying conditions, and younger, that might have had a long, successful life afterward, if they only had the help of a ventilator to get through it.
When a patient is on a ventilator, they are on an average of 20 days. The incubation period for the Coronavirus is generally 5-14 days. So they are always behind having enough ventilators for everyone. "Patient Zero," the one who unfortunately started it all here in NYS, in New Rochelle, finally got out of the hospital a couple days ago. So he was in critical condition for a month.
I don't know if this made the national news. We now have refrigerated morgue trucks. They are the 18 wheelers with a refrigerated trailer on the back. Bodies are being fork-lifted into them. I guess it's partly because they want as few people touching them as possible. All the guys doing the work are wearing PPE up the wazoo. You can Google for the horrifying photos. Fema is sending 87 more morgue trucks.
I'm worried about some of the smaller cities without a lot of ventilators. There are still too many asymptomatic & pre-symptomatic people walking around, infecting others. And a number of people may show up at the hospital at the same time.
Attention sarcasm alert:This is so horrific
But don’t you see how only one of those is even preventable by social distancing. A lot of the same advice for COVID is also given during flu season. Wash your hands. Stay home if you’re sick. Plus the fact that COVID is ten times more deadly.
Maybe we are talking past each other. I do not like those arguments. I absolutely agree with you. The COVID is much more deadly and debilitating. But people keep saying that we don't take precautions for all of those deaths. I was trying to say that is why we ARE taking these extreme precautions. Hard to hear tone and meaning sometimes. It is why I put sarcasm in there. To show I don't believe that.
A few of the personalities on Fox News isn't helping either.
Please don't apologize!
My breathing is good, as it has been since this all started. I was only eating crackers and chicken broth because I still can't taste a thing but today I had a bowl of mashed potatoes and a banana. It's hard to feel like eating when you can't taste or smell, but I'm trying to eat more and more variety. My aunt swears that tomorrow she's going out to find a steak for me because I need the good old fashioned red meat. I'm not so sure about that, but if she makes one I'll eat it if I can. I'm taking in much more water and also Pedialyte, so I'm hydrating but still dehydrated. Not as bad, though. I don't feel dizzy anymore, still lightheaded, though.
Thanks so much to you Mommasita, and to all the other Disers who are concerned about me and asking after me. It touches my heart.
My sister's test was negative.
Yes, it is!
Please don't apologize!
My breathing is good, as it has been since this all started. I was only eating crackers and chicken broth because I still can't taste a thing but today I had a bowl of mashed potatoes and a banana. It's hard to feel like eating when you can't taste or smell, but I'm trying to eat more and more variety. My aunt swears that tomorrow she's going out to find a steak for me because I need the good old fashioned red meat. I'm not so sure about that, but if she makes one I'll eat it if I can. I'm taking in much more water and also Pedialyte, so I'm hydrating but still dehydrated. Not as bad, though. I don't feel dizzy anymore, still lightheaded, though.
Thanks so much to you Mommasita, and to all the other Disers who are concerned about me and asking after me. It touches my heart.
STAY HOME PEOPLE!!
