CORONAVIRUS Death Thread

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Mead [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea, south Florida. Nobody is surprised. Mostly 30s-50s vented in our hospital. The main common denominator is they're mostly all obese. They're also barring visitors from coming into the hospital again. They had a good run (like 2-3 weeks?). It's back to facetime/whatapp/zoom.

What is your guys' testing protocol for new admits? I've been reading statistics coming from Florida where 1/3 of all hospital admits, all causes, were testing positive for corona.

I'm supposed to be starting my final clinical rotation (physical therapy) at a major trauma center at the end of the month, where I will be in the STICU and trauma ICU. By the terms of my program's agreement with the hospital, I'm not allowed to treat covid+ patients. However, in past rotations, I've had physicians refer pt's for PT before screens came back. Nearly got exposed to TB because of that.

Like are you treating every pt as a possible positive until you get a negative result? I have a feeling this is going to be such a shitshow of a rotation.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What is your guys' testing protocol for new admits? I've been reading statistics coming from Florida where 1/3 of all hospital admits, all causes, were testing positive for corona.

I'm supposed to be starting my final clinical rotation (physical therapy) at a major trauma center at the end of the month, where I will be in the STICU and trauma ICU. By the terms of my program's agreement with the hospital, I'm not allowed to treat covid+ patients. However, in past rotations, I've had physicians refer pt's for PT before screens came back. Nearly got exposed to TB because of that.

Like are you treating every pt as a possible positive until you get a negative result? I have a feeling this is going to be such a shitshow of a rotation.

Not from florida but, I'd imagine every hospital is handling this the same way. Seeing as I was just in one for a couple days (turns out I had what they think was a minor eye stroke, randomly went blind in my left eye for like 30 seconds, everything is cool now though), I was put into a separate wing of the hospital where people go if they're waiting for test results. If its negative, they then bring you wherever they intend to keep you.

The PCAs and nurses that came into my room prior to getting the results back were in full PPE garb.

At least where I was, depending on procedures being done, you're re-tested if you haven't had a test within 24 hours of being sent to a different wing. So unfortunately I had to get the test twice.

If you haven't gotten the covid test, trust me, its as shitty as people describe it to be. You still feel like there's a swab up your nose for like 2 minutes after its done its fuckin weird.

[Mead]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What is your guys' testing protocol for new admits? I've been reading statistics coming from Florida where 1/3 of all hospital admits, all causes, were testing positive for corona.

I'm supposed to be starting my final clinical rotation (physical therapy) at a major trauma center at the end of the month, where I will be in the STICU and trauma ICU. By the terms of my program's agreement with the hospital, I'm not allowed to treat covid+ patients. However, in past rotations, I've had physicians refer pt's for PT before screens came back. Nearly got exposed to TB because of that.

Like are you treating every pt as a possible positive until you get a negative result? I have a feeling this is going to be such a shitshow of a rotation.

Everyone gets swabbed that comes through the ED. That swab takes about 20 minutes to run. Then it gets sent to an outside lab for confirmation. We test roughly every 2-3 days for a week for anyone with symptoms.

We put suspected with the covids but at this point it’s wherever we have room for you. We’re running out of hospital equipment, beds, and staff. South Florida
is killing it right now.

Our PTs are working with covid patients. It must really be warranted. We’re trying to limit any staff exposure to covid patients.

Family and friends completely barred from visiting again unless patient actively dying.

[Domo]

"America's response to the COVID-19 global pandemic all boiled down to one picture" (source : reddit )


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[magnetaress]

No one should die from being stupid, but it is the law of nature.

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No one should die from being stupid, but it is the law of nature.

Decades of cuts to public education is costing actual lives now.

[Blingy]

Originally Posted by Tethler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Decades of cuts to public education is costing actual lives now.

If it were only that simple. My neck of the woods has things broken down by zipcode believe it or not. My zipcode and the two on either side of me are spending an average of $24k/student/year; some of the highest in the country......and our numbers are atrocious both in total numbers and per capita.

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Tethler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Decades of cuts to public education is costing actual lives now.

in the last 2 decades spending on education has gone up by 300-400%, while inflation is only around 50%.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

in the last 2 decades spending on education has gone up by 300-400%, while inflation is only around 50%.

Do you happen to know what the original number that is being increased by 3-400%? I know 4 teachers, up and down the east coast, and they all need to buy most of the supplies for their classes. It's a double whammy of not being paid very well and having to spend your own money in order to do your job =/.

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you happen to know what the original number that is being increased by 3-400%? I know 4 teachers, up and down the east coast, and they all need to buy most of the supplies for their classes. It's a double whammy of not being paid very well and having to spend your own money in order to do your job =/.

Those numbers are a bit exaggerated. It's more like 3-4x in the last 50 years. A lot of the increase spending comes from non-teacher staff.