Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #36

[musicaljoke]

Entire senior home in New Jersey, 94 people, presumed to have coronavirus
March 25, 2020, 11:37 AM MDT

“An entire New Jersey nursing home is presumed to be infected with coronavirus, forcing everyone from the facility to be evacuated on Wednesday, officials said.”

Why evacuate? Why not treat in place?

 

[Spartygirl]

Doesn't everyone have access to employment insurance?

UGH !!! I wish !!!
You have to apply and normally (without a crisis ensuing) it can take 8-12 weeks to get approved -- 2-3 months just for approval then wait for first payment.
With everyone and their brother applying for it due to so many lost jobs, they are going to be even more back logged.
It will be a miracle if people get approved within 6-12 months, much less a payment.
I hope mtg companies, landlords, etc will offer grace periods for this international crisis.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Why evacuate? Why not treat in place?

Maybe need new staff, but need to clean first?

 

[Boston Corbett]

13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital (NYT)

Doctors said they had tried to resuscitate people while drenched in sweat under their protective gear, face masks fogging up. Some patients have been found dead in their rooms while doctors were busy helping others.​

 

[Teche]

My son's a senior at Loyola, and I've completely fallen in love with your beautiful state over the past 4 years and consider it my second home. So much so, that I even started going to a church here in Maryland where two pastors (including the senior/lead pastor) are from Louisiana! I was so looking forward to taking my husband (who doesn't normally travel) there for his first time, for my son's graduation in May. They've said if anything, they'll postpone graduation, not cancel it, but now he's too scared to go anywhere near Louisiana after seeing all the news reports (including the mayor on CNN last night--I should've known better than to tune in! ) and says he won't go Plane tix non-refundable and the credit policy is a joke My son flew to Los Angeles for a week but will be returning to his apartment in NOLA on Friday... I'm worried about him being there all alone, especially after reading "Some 70% of Louisiana's 1,795 confirmed cases to date are in the New Orleans metro area" above
Loyola is an amazing university. My sister graduated from its law school. Don’t expect him to leave Louisiana after graduation.
And yes... Louisiana is so much more than MG!!

Loyola is an amazing university. My sister graduated from its law school. Don’t expect him to leave Louisiana after graduation. There’s a saying in bayou country...once you taste that bayou water, you never leave.

 

[Tillicum]

Why evacuate? Why not treat in place?

Unfortunately being that they are senior citizens (high risk) they will probably need treatment impossible to use in the nursing home.

 

[MyBelle]

Idaho governor issues statewide 21-day stay at home order

I wish it would be nationwide. Get it over with. A healthcare worker at our Children's Hospital has tested positive and took care of 10 babies last weekend in the NICU.
The boss claims the employee self-screened but it is obvious the person didn't do it. I can't begin to image the emotional turmoil the parents of those babies are going through now because the babies now have to be quarantined from them. Our oldest son was a preemie and was in the NICU for weeks. It was a horrible, emotionally draining experience for us. I can't image what it would have been like if we had been prohibited from seeing and touching him. Please keep these families in your prayers.

Children's Hospital health care provider with COVID-19 had contact with 10 NICU patients

 

[LadyL]

13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital (NYT)

Doctors said they had tried to resuscitate people while drenched in sweat under their protective gear, face masks fogging up. Some patients have been found dead in their rooms while doctors were busy helping others.​

terrible

 

[Trudie]

What will happen with hotels converted to housing homeless or ill, after the crisis ends? Imo, they are forever stigmatized, like the old TB hospitals.
I’d be livid if I traveled & booked reservations at a hotel that once housed coronavirus patients, only because I’m not confident in cleaning practices & no one really knows for sure how long it might live. We know it lived on the cruise ship for 17 days. Moo

 

[MamaOV]

Loyola is an amazing university. My sister graduated from its law school. Don’t expect him to leave Louisiana after graduation. There’s a saying in bayou country...once you taste that bayou water, you never leave.

I wish!! He has his heart set on Los Angeles as soon as he can afford it. I've been dreading graduation since it may mean my last visit as well (can't afford it, and will no longer have a valid excuse to rack up debt visiting ).

 

[Trudie]

@MyBelle a good friend is charge nurse at St. Joe NICU, she was out in a hotel across the street from the facility. She goes to work & to her hotel room, that’s it, despite living only 30mi from the hospital. I think she said parent were banned two weeks ago, moo, I need to check with her.

eta: This is a dif hospital, I’m not finding info specifically to St. Joe

• Nursery and neonatal intensive care unit patients will be able to have visits from one birth parent, accompanied by one significant other, if cleared by an attending physician.
  
  Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241446001.html#storylink=cpy

I wish it would be nationwide. Get it over with. A healthcare worker at our Children's Hospital has tested positive and took are of 10 babies last weekend in the NICU.
The boss claims the employee self-screened but it is obvious the person didn't do it. I can't begin to image the emotional turmoil the parents of those babies are going through now because the babies now have to be quarantined from them. Our oldest son was a preemie and was in the NICU for weeks. It was a horrible, emotionally draining experience for us. I can't image what it would have been like if we had been prohibited from seeing and touching him. Please keep these families in your prayers.

Children's Hospital health care provider with COVID-19 had contact with 10 NICU patients

 

[jjenny]

I wish it would be nationwide. Get it over with. A healthcare worker at our Children's Hospital has tested positive and took are of 10 babies last weekend in the NICU.
The boss claims the employee self-screened but it is obvious the person didn't do it. I can't begin to image the emotional turmoil the parents of those babies are going through now because the babies now have to be quarantined from them. Our oldest son was a preemie and was in the NICU for weeks. It was a horrible, emotionally draining experience for us. I can't image what it would have been like if we had been prohibited from seeing and touching him. Please keep these families in your prayers.

Children's Hospital health care provider with COVID-19 had contact with 10 NICU patients

How exactly is it obvious that the employee didn't self-screen? Covid has up to 14 day incubation period (maybe even longer) and people start being infectious before any symptoms show up.

 

[zecats]

UGH !!! I wish !!!
You have to apply and normally (without a crisis ensuing) it can take 8-12 weeks to get approved -- 2-3 months just for approval then wait for first payment.
With everyone and their brother applying for it due to so many lost jobs, they are going to be even more back logged.
It will be a miracle if people get approved within 6-12 months, much less a payment.
I hope mtg companies, landlords, etc will offer grace periods for this international crisis.

I applied last week and was approved immediately. Already received my first check (electronic deposit).

 

[gngr~snap]

13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital (NYT)

Doctors said they had tried to resuscitate people while drenched in sweat under their protective gear, face masks fogging up. Some patients have been found dead in their rooms while doctors were busy helping others.​

The city requested 85 refrigerated trailers from FEMA for mortuary services, along with staff, the briefing said."
Wow, this is sad!
Moo

 

[musicaljoke]

Unfortunately being that they are senior citizens (high risk) they will probably need treatment impossible to use in the nursing home.

But it seems that they just moved them to another similar facility. I am sure that proper treatment for Covid can be given in a nursing home. Many hospitals and medical service providers are already setting up Covid hospitals in community halls, churches, schools, or whatever buildings are available.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

I wish it would be nationwide. Get it over with. A healthcare worker at our Children's Hospital has tested positive and took are of 10 babies last weekend in the NICU.
The boss claims the employee self-screened but it is obvious the person didn't do it. I can't begin to image the emotional turmoil the parents of those babies are going through now because the babies now have to be quarantined from them. Our oldest son was a preemie and was in the NICU for weeks. It was a horrible, emotionally draining experience for us. I can't image what it would have been like if we had been prohibited from seeing and touching him. Please keep these families in your prayers.

Children's Hospital health care provider with COVID-19 had contact with 10 NICU patients

Absolutely will keep them in prayers...this is a terrible thing to have happened. I don't know if the NICU environment or neonatal equipment might somehow offer a little more protection, but I hope so.

 

[roche.analisa]

Love this!!

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'Teacher Parades' lift spirits, provide chance for teachers to connect with students during COVID-19 crisis

Made me cry. I'm a teacher missing my students terribly.

I don’t think he’s coming back

Wait, what?

 

[anneg]

I'm not sure I can continue reading this thread. It's getting too depressing. Maybe time for me to take a break.

 

[TMAN2014]

Entire senior home in New Jersey, 94 people, presumed to have coronavirus
March 25, 2020, 11:37 AM MDT

“An entire New Jersey nursing home is presumed to be infected with coronavirus,”

What a nightmare.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

I applied last week and was approved immediately. Already received my first check (electronic deposit).

It's great that you didn't have to wait long to get your check.

I imagine that it depends on where someone lives as to how long it takes to get going on unemployment. JMO