AnnieA
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Our community lost an ICU nurse last week. She was never hospitalized and was sick for weeks. When finally on the mend, she threw a clot from her carotid artery to brain and died. The vascular complications seem to happen in the recovery stage. Through work and my sister's practice, I know of a good many who've suffered pulmonary embolism at that stage.
Just learned that the guy I came closest to marrying lost both parents to C19 last week. Both were in their 90s but weren't in nursing homes. His father owned a highly successful independent insurance firm, so they had excellent insurance, could afford the best of care and died at the top ranked hospital in the area.
We can't stop being vigilant. The most sensible article I've read about what we're facing says we need to get to a 60-70% infection rate for herd immunity and that could take another 12-18 months; the epidemiologist didn't write from a political bias as so many do and pointed out that there's no safe, effective vaccine for any other coronavirus including SARS and MERS though researchers have been working on those for years. My personal fear is that anything fast-tracked may do more harm than good. Only time will tell.
We have to keep using mitigation strategies in order to protect our critical care staff as we go through more hard months ahead.
Just learned that the guy I came closest to marrying lost both parents to C19 last week. Both were in their 90s but weren't in nursing homes. His father owned a highly successful independent insurance firm, so they had excellent insurance, could afford the best of care and died at the top ranked hospital in the area.
We can't stop being vigilant. The most sensible article I've read about what we're facing says we need to get to a 60-70% infection rate for herd immunity and that could take another 12-18 months; the epidemiologist didn't write from a political bias as so many do and pointed out that there's no safe, effective vaccine for any other coronavirus including SARS and MERS though researchers have been working on those for years. My personal fear is that anything fast-tracked may do more harm than good. Only time will tell.
We have to keep using mitigation strategies in order to protect our critical care staff as we go through more hard months ahead.
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