margarita25
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Not sure the added stress and nicotine cravings would help the situation.
Yes. I think it's in order now, and would do it myself if I could do it in a way that doesn't endanger others. I'm still haunted by the GA mammogram technician, Dedra Wilkes, whose 5-year old son was found alive with her body after about 16 hours.
Some smokers are okay with cold turkey (so if you're one of those, and thinking about it - go for it). And people who smoke only a couple of cigarettes per day - it's time to go ahead and quit.
Nicotine patches still available online, but...having watched many relatives go cold turkey after getting sick (not from CV19, from flu or pneumonia) I'm rooting for all of the quitters and will tolerate a bit of crankiness. Most need some other outdoor habit to occupy them, IME (my dad started picking the gravel out of his lawn and tossing it back into the gravel area, ha).
By the way, I am sorry you had this experience. I can't imagine what that would be like.
Illinois reports the first death of an infant from COVID-19
Illinois reports the first death of an infant from COVID-19
@MassGuy, my quarterback, Drew Brees has donated $5million to New Orleans to combat the Covid-19. Plus his chain of restaurants is providing daily meals. Once a Saint, always a Saint.I must have missed his charitable donation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
If gaps in health care resources aren’t filled, more than 80,000 Americans will die over the next four months due to the coronavirus pandemic, epidemiologists at the University of Washington predict.
The grim forecast — based on an analysis of statistics from the World Health Organization, as well as from national and local governments and hospitals — is laid out today in a research paper that’s being submitted to the MedRxiv preprint server but hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed.
Researchers at the UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation say their forecast takes current policies on social distancing into account. The problem is that shortages of hospital beds and medical supplies are projected to boost the death toll nevertheless.
Epidemiologists predict 80,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. by July – GeekWire
I also would like to know 1) how old the infant was and 2) if the baby had any underlying medical problems. So sad.If true so very sad, waiting to see if the baby had underlying medical problems.
I read the article but it makes no sense in the context of what has happened and just seems to be political jabbing. There is no way the American government can force law-abiding citizens to take a medical test they don't want to take. The number of available tests has never been the problem. The problem is with the number of health workers needed to administer the tests and analyze the tests. A guy who was traveling via jet developed symptoms after he landed in Omaha. The county health director was asked if everybody on the plane was going to be contacted and she said no, only those seated in the range of two rows in front and two rows in back of the patient would be notified. She said transmission beyond that range would be highly unlikely.Gah I’m trying to contain my blood pressure as it is without reading that article LOL.
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If gaps in health care resources aren’t filled, more than 80,000 Americans will die over the next four months due to the coronavirus pandemic, epidemiologists at the University of Washington predict.
The grim forecast — based on an analysis of statistics from the World Health Organization, as well as from national and local governments and hospitals — is laid out today in a research paper that’s being submitted to the MedRxiv preprint server but hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed.
Researchers at the UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation say their forecast takes current policies on social distancing into account. The problem is that shortages of hospital beds and medical supplies are projected to boost the death toll nevertheless.
Epidemiologists predict 80,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. by July – GeekWire