Does anyone work in healthcare or a hospital? Are you seeing a Covid resurgence?

originally posted by: nOraKat

originally posted by: DBCowboy

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: DBCowboy

Maybe you can ask around to some doctors about Covid.. I'm sure first thing they do is test for it.

Sure they do, I get the Covid numbers daily.

And..?

And what?

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: Advantage

Are you reporting whats in the news or you are a doctor in a hospital?

Im not a Dr. I was an RN but also have a degree in another field. I work alongside the CDC representatives in our zone as far as "biosecurity".
ALso, the US is a big place. One area may see a significant spike and another see no rise really at all.. one says its serious and at capacity and another ssays its a nothingburger. Both are correct.

a reply to: carewemust

Seriously piss off. This nothing burger killed my father. So tired of your fake news.

originally posted by: mzinga
a reply to: carewemust

Seriously piss off. This nothing burger killed my father. So tired of your fake news.

I mean this from bottom of my heart. I am truly sorry you lost your father. I really mean that.

a reply to: Fowlerstoad

Wow, thank you very much for this great report.

Did you meet patients who have gotten Covid a second time around? If so, is this because there are different strains?

Would you say the volume of people far exceed a typical bad flu season? (..since it may be hard to distinguish between people coming in for Influenza.. Also I would imagine that people who get a bad case of Influenza this year are more likely to check themselves into a hospital compared to other years over concern of Covid..)

Cousin's husband works in a hospital. They're going on a mini-vacation to a hotel waterpark while he goes on conference and having his entire family down from Chicago for Thanksgiving. Whatever he's seeing where he works doesn't seem to be phasing him.

I wish I could tell you what that is, but there it is.

a reply to: ManSizedSquirrel

Tired of this being political. Idiots make this political. This is serious. If it weren’t for redneck idiots that would wear a mask I’d still have him.

This thing doesn’t care who you are, what your politics are, what your race is. It doesn’t discriminate and is serious. Yes some people have little to no symptoms, but that doesn’t change people are dying.

a reply to: ketsuko

Also depends on which unit you are in. At least here there are Covid sections and only certain people deal with Covid patients.

Not meaning to be disrespectful but just asking a question & looking for an opinion.
Don't you think the reason the numbers are going yup is mainly due to people being tested?
More people get tested then there is a spike in the numbers.
However
There's no information if these people are actually showing symptoms or are sick so..
The testing is what is contributing to to the numbers..
Some people get Tested to get a job as a requirement some people have the flu and are tested some people are worried and are tested.
Testing has become more available to people now.

I believe most people have either already had this or have it now but not all are sick or showing symptoms.. They just got tested.. Therefore the spike..
No one think of this? Not one News agency or gov organization mentions that this may be what we are seeing..
Just my 2 cents..

a reply to: nOraKat

I work in Long Term Care... my home has had about 12 cases in the last month or so... before which we had a few staff catch it... none have been serious so far.

Two residents have died with covid.. one had pneumonia before she got it... the other had a stroke... but im sure they were counted as covid related deaths.

Cases are increasing here in Ontario... but so are the amount of people getting tested

I've been a doubter the whole time, but since ii have to work directly with people that have it... it can be a little scary

Currently im on the fence about what i think about this pandemic...

its not good in any case

a reply to: Advantage

Testing in Iceland shows people had several strains of the virus. Perhaps people can get it again because it is a different strain. It is less likely for a person to get it again because that person develops antibodies to the virus. If this were not the case they would not have suggested using the antibodies of cured patients to help others.

originally posted by: Fowlerstoad
a reply to: nOraKat

I am a doctor, and work in a hospital. Yes, we are seeing the number of COVID cases increase, BUT we also are not keeping patients on average in the hospital as long as we were a few months ago, because now we know better treatments.

Vitamin D, C, zinc, a zinc ionphore, and azithromycin go a long way, among other easy to administer treatments.

Our hospital has been full, then patients get discharged, and it gets full again, in kind of a cycle. Right now we are full again. More people are getting COVID-19, BUT They are not dying as much as they were a few months ago. For the number of patients now is much higher, but they are dying less. Why is that ? I do not know, but my theory is that hopefully we are maybe identifying the vulnerable patients earlier than before, and that we are also then taking better care of them now?

COVID is ripping through my town right now, but deaths are not up. I think it is going as well as could be expected at the moment. Fingers crossed!

In Illinois, where I live, we are predicted to reach so-called 'herd immunity' by the first or second week of December, and then this virus should burn out after that, slowly. We will see.

That is about what the people I know at the hospitals are telling me here. People come and stay a few days with covid and then go home. I do not know what they are giving these people though, because the people I know are just nurses and office people. There is an increase in deaths, mostly in old people again, but also in people who have COPD and are on meds that compromise their immune system or have had certain types of cancer therapies. One person who died had a form of blood cancer a year or so ago and recovered I think, but his immune system was no longer working right.

It seems that the hospitals are doing better with this virus now that the government is not trying to tell them what they can and can't do. I got way more faith in the doctors running things than some government official with Three degrees who does not have much experience in this sort of thing. I have a lot of respect for doctors, but there are a lot of nurses who think they know a lot more than they actually do around here. There are also some doctors that are not very wise, I have only known a couple of doctors like that in my life. Ego gets in the way in medicine just like it does in every other trade. I am glad I have a doctor who actually listens to what I am saying again, I had one that pushed meds for everything a while back. She ignored side effects of the meds, thank god I had a specialist that told me to quit the meds to see if her meds were causing the problems. I was so messed up, I couldn't even recognize my wife if I saw her, I could recognize her voice though when I was on those meds.

a reply to: chiefsmom

I would imagine with cold season here, and many young people living with older parents and grand parents they would go get tested for fear that they might give it to the older members living in their home.

a reply to: mzinga

Any illness can end up being lethal. I'm sorry about your father, but it happens every year to people - they lose loved ones to illnesses most of us wouldn't think of as lethal. You can do everything in your power to stop it but it will still happen. What do you tell those who lose loved ones to the flu or even the common cold? Those things happen and no one takes much precaution against spreading those around, not like this.

a reply to: mzinga

To some extent, but everyone who works there would be aware of the basic facts of the situation.

a reply to: mzinga

I don't know where you're at but here in my area in Wisconsin everyone wears masks. Some people even wear them when they are alone in their car, for whatever reason. We've been doing this since August. Even at work everyone has to wear a mask.

For a short time in October we were in the top 10 for cases by county. Yes even with massive mask compliance.

Your argument that masks are our savior in this mess does not align with my actual observations.

originally posted by: Xtrozero

originally posted by: nOraKat

Fatality numbers shouldn't change that much unless the virus has mutated, I would guess.

I was thinking the other way around. Fatalities are down 80%+ due to better practices taking care of people to keep them off ventilators ..

Ah, good point

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: Advantage

Testing in Iceland shows people had several strains of the virus. Perhaps people can get it again because it is a different strain. It is less likely for a person to get it again because that person develops antibodies to the virus. If this were not the case they would not have suggested using the antibodies of cured patients to help others.

No one said you dont make antibodies or that they dont work... the problem is the length of time your actually keep potent antibodies active in your system. Also, we track strains by their genetics.. we know what strain is what in the sample patients.. so we know if they are in fact being reinfected or being infected by another strain or mutation. If you only keep the antibodies to the virus for 6 weeks and get reinfected after that period... then you have been reinfected with covid. Last debriefing I heard said the case for using antibodies would lessen severe cases where people are in ICU.. where there are different levels of life support. The plasma infusions have never been claimed to cure it. It is only a therapy or treatment and used in conjunction with several other therapies and treatments.

a reply to: DBCowboy

And so is there a significant Covid resurgence discounting the regular Influenza patients this time of year?