"“It’s maddening that people could do something about it and choose not to. It’s like if you have an infection and don’t take the antibiotics. It doesn’t make sense,” he says. “And the warped logic that I’m seeing used. … In the old days, that would warrant you an antipsychotic and a psych bed.”
“The really important thing that people might not understand is that there’s just no way to ramp up a trained, qualified workforce in health care,” Arora tells Yahoo Life. “You can’t just makeshift doctors and nurses.”
"She notes that unlike the spike in New York in April, the entire nation is in need of more doctors and nurses.
As cases continue to rise in the majority of the U.S., doctors and nurses have begun leaving the medical world, saying that the profession has become untenable.
“Hospitals are members of the community,” she says. “When a hospital is hurting, the community is hurting. That’s why it’s a crisis.”
Contact, but not close contact (Close contact defined as 6ft for combined 15 minutes with or without masks).
A few symptoms out of the ~15 symptoms that all call for a test individually in the city’s screening guidelines… nothing crazy, could be general chronic recurring symptoms coinciding.
Not expecting a positive result, would be surprised.
If the symptoms are from the virus, presumably your test will tell you. If your symptoms are coincidental but you were exposed, the incubation period is typically 3-5 days or so and the ability of the test to detect the virus during this period is weak until a day or so before you’d come down with symptoms anyway.
So good luck with your test, but if you were only recently exposed, be aware that it may be too soon for a test to rule out having a very early stage of the viral infection that could then show up several days later. If you’re around others and if this test is negative, I’d still try to avoid them through around 5 days or a bit more post-exposure and then get another test.
Yeah false negative aren’t that uncommon with any of the types. (From short research, All different based on timeline, seeing some indication that the nasal are not as good later on but best in first few days. Then throat swabs. ). In the appropriate window for test, around a week from the potential exposure and few days in from symptoms.
Uh, your isms have flown past me. What does it have to do with the price of tea in China?
That may or may not be correct, but they are breaking the ?law? of Emmy winner Gov Cuomo who ordered that gatherings be limited to 10 people, and all of the other mask-mandates that he has ordered.
Finally, some of the these same people were beating the drum that the latest uptick in covid cases was due to Jews.
Not everyone gets this and I’m pretty sure it’s not an early symptom – you’d already know that you are sick before you lose the sense of smell & taste.
The point is an olfactory check is so insanely simple and easy to perform that there is no reason NOT to do so. However I agree:
Just because you still have your sense of smell is not at all reason to assume you’re OK on the virus. At the same time, unexplained olfactory loss would give me, at least, a reason to look deeper and perhaps submit to a test for the virus.
Happened at my house yesterday. My H was building a fire in the fireplace. A match was not handy so he rolled paper up & used the kitchen gas stove fire to light his paper. I started smelling gas later in the morning & discovered the stove was still on & no fire.
Whataboutism is a logical fallacy. Incidentally, a search of this thread shows this isn’t the first time in this very thread you’ve both engaged in it, claimed not to know what it was, and been pointed to it.
