CANADA: (speaking moistly) You thought we Canadians were good looking before, just wait to see our tossled manes and sexy "just got outta bed" look in 3 months. (ha, and you were wondering why the pressers are being done at my front door :wink wink
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So true. It is absolutely shocking how many people died, and are still dying over here. And once it is over and done with, we will see a surge in our medical workers being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress.. a lot of front line workers should have spent this, their final year completing medical school. People choose this line of work to save lives so to be thrust into this pandemic, with no cure and a mountain of death cannot be good for the mind. Their lives have been affected forever. We will never know their names, but they are all a Godsend X
This is what is truly sad in all of this. The public do not get to witness this side of the pandemic. But it is left to hospital workers to decide who lives and who dies in some situations. Here in the UK, my partner's Grandfather passed away in April and without naming the hospital, what we witnessed was devastating... 2 families, each with a critically ill relative, both needing intensive care, with only 1 bed available and apparently it was a no brainer. . The 35yr old patient has a better chance of survival and so the 70yr old patient must die. The families were beside themselves with 1 lot begging, the others apologizing repeatedly. All the staff were crying and it was absolutely jaw dropping. And the staff have to go home each night knowing their decisions are not only made to save lives but to end them! How heavy on the mind that must weigh X
"Arizona hospitals on Friday asked the state Department of Health Services to formally activate crisis standards of care, rarely used guidelines that would give health care providers more freedom to decide who should be treated for the coronavirus and how they should be treated.
The 14-page crisis standards for treating COVID-19 patients are a guide for dealing with scarce resources."
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"The call for crisis standards by the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee, which represents the state's major hospitals and other health care facilities, is the clearest sign to date that the out-of-control coronavirus infection is overwhelming the state’s health care resources."
Arizona hospitals want more power to decide who gets care as COVID-19 overwhelms facilities, staff
It’s not helping in NC, at least not yet.
If a lot of people don't develop antibodies or antibodies don't last long, how well the vaccine going to work if at all? Vaccine depends on people developing antibodies after vaccine is applied. This is one sneaky virus, I am afraid.
