The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

Today was my clinic's first full day of being open since the announcement of the pandemic and quarantine. Our C suite is going by the most recent CDC guidelines (as they're updated) and we will be open normal hours. Anyone with direct patient contact is expected to be at work. They are waiving attendance and leave reprimands until further notice.


We aren't rescheduling patients for regular checkups but all groups of 10 or more have been cancelled. If patients are calling and they are sick, they are triaged on the phone for directions. We're supposed to get the nasal test this week but our on site lab will be doing it. Our major concern is that we may run out of PPE because our supplier has but a quantity and time limit on orders. So we are only able to order masks every 18-21 days and we can only order 2 boxes. They're locked up with our clinic manger as patients were stealing them. The hand sanitizer is mounted to the wall so they can't take that.

I honestly am not in full panic mode just yet but I am taking it seriously.
I've set up a disrobing station at my door so I can take off my scrubs as soon as I get in the house. We've been stock up on Lysol and bleach for months from when I used to coupon. Mint keeps telling me I went over budget on groceries and I'm like, I know already.

Belle Du Jour said:

I believe I have all of these--at lease eucalyptus and peppermint for sure.

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Me, too. And I have been wanting to get an essential oil diffuser for a while now. I think I will go ahead and get one. I might get a couple. I know I definitely want one for my bedroom and one for the living room for sure.

In all seriousness, I pitched a fit at work because I feel someone has put the whole office at risk with her carelessness.

I’m definitely taking it seriously now.

Florida being Florida...

Jmartjrmd said:

I read it is because Italy's population is just older than China's.

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TrulyBlessed said:

Florida being Florida...


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I'm pretty sure our numbers will skyrocket by the time sprint break is over. They're finally admitting that there's community spread going on in South Florida.

I went into one of the offices for work today as I was supposed to be at a meeting that was later moved online. Tell me why there was more than one person coughing and sneezing in the office? I got the h*** up out of there as fast as I could. I'll be working from home the rest of the week as it looks like the other two meetings are canceled. Also took off next week as I'm just burned out and I know I'll get no rest unless I'm officially offline and on PTO. Stay safe ladies.

So. I just rewatched contagion. The movie that came out in 2011. It is basically a prediction of what is happening now. The craziest part was the origin of the virus in contagion also came from bats. In Hong Kong. Then it went to a pig. Then humans.

The theory is that this current coronavirus went from bats to an animal we eat, then humans.

but bat is eaten as a delicacy in some parts of China.

whosthatgurl said:

In all seriousness, I pitched a fit at work because I feel someone has put the whole office at risk with her carelessness.

I’m definitely taking it seriously now.

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Don't go there.

I give it two weeks and we are going to be like italy. I had neighbor kids ringing my doorbell for my kids to play. I was like omg people aren’t taking this serious at all

Ganjababy said:

So. I just rewatched contagion. The movie that came out in 2011. It is basically a prediction of what is happening now. The craziest part was the origin of the virus in contagion also came from bats. In Hong Kong. Then it went to a pig. Then humans.

The theory is that this current coronavirus went from bats to an animal we eat, then humans.

but bat is eaten as a delicacy in some parts of China.

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Is that the one with Gwyneth Paltrow where she's in Hong Kong for business and cheats on her husband with an old flame? If it's the same movie, I don't think I can watch it right now. It's just too much when all the news is about this virus.

Black Ambrosia said:

Is that the one with Gwyneth Paltrow where she's in Hong Kong for business and cheats on her husband with an old flame? If it's the same movie, I don't think I can watch it right now. It's just too much when all the news is about this virus.

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It is

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It is

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Thanks. I enjoyed it at the time but it feels too real right now.

TrulyBlessed said:

Florida being Florida...


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https://people.com/health/kentucky-...f-quarantine-being-guarded-by-police-officer/

Kentucky Man with Coronavirus Who Refused to Self-Quarantine Being Guarded by Police Officer

"We can’t allow one person we know who has this virus to refuse to protect their neighbors," said the Kentucky governor

Myself and a good number of my FB friends are educators. It does my heart good to see so many of us offer to help with this digital education piece in any way that we can.

I gotta focus on the positive because folks are ticking me off not taking this quarantine seriously....

tigereyes83 said:

get back home and my son and I get sick. No Bigge.. he’s a toddler and I catch everything he gets.
Then I suddenly got super sick. I remember telling my husband this wasn’t some normal cold. Like I shouldn’t be this sick! I get a flu test for my son and I both negative. This went on for two weeks and I finally got better. I guess I will never know for sure but all symptoms described for the virus is what I had.

just think of all the others who were sick and never got tested...

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I thought about this and there was this flu like virus going around my office and even my elderly parents got it back in January /early Feb. Everyone got hit so fast and hard, but the test was negative for flu. Everybody recovered, but we'll never know if it was really the coronavirus because it hadn't hit US yet...atleast publicly

Dposh167 said:

I thought about this and there was this flu like virus going around my office and even my elderly parents got it back in January /early Feb. Everyone got hit so fast and hard, but the test was negative for flu. Everybody recovered, but we'll never know if it was really the coronavirus because it hadn't hit US yet...atleast publicly

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This happened to me, my SO and 7 other people at a NYE party we went to. It wasn’t the flu but I thought I was going to die. It got bad real fast about a week after the party and then it just got better. My boyfriend was slower to act (a week after I went to ER) and he got hit harder. We think my friend’s husband was the original carrier since he felt sick at the party. We will never know but it’s possible that it was Rona.

TrulyBlessed said:

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see....this is why government and companies have to mandate closures because if you leave it up to the general public....we won't listen. Everybody would be at March Madness get togethers and sports games. Local bars will still have patrons, etc..

Dposh167 said:

see....this is why government and companies have to mandate closures because if you leave it up to the general public....we won't listen. Everybody would be at March Madness get togethers and sports games. Local bars will still have patrons, etc..

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Privilege people who have never had to obey authority nor listen or care about others. Self first.

Ganjababy said:

So. I just rewatched contagion. The movie that came out in 2011. It is basically a prediction of what is happening now. The craziest part was the origin of the virus in contagion also came from bats. In Hong Kong. Then it went to a pig. Then humans.

The theory is that this current coronavirus went from bats to an animal we eat, then humans.

but bat is eaten as a delicacy in some parts of China.

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YES! I was just telling my family I watched it yesterday. I saw it back in 2011, but didn't remember much. That movie is exactly what's going on now! Well almost. As soon as it went off, I turned the news on and they announced the trials. Just like the movie. Kind of eerie now.

I...yeah, I don't even have any words for this.

An influencer filmed herself licking a plane toilet seat for 'clout' on TikTok as part of a 'coronavirus challenge'
[email protected] (Lindsay Dodgson)
INSIDERMarch 16, 2020, 8:53 AM CDT


Ava Louise spreading awareness in her own way.

Ava Louise / Twitter

• Influencer Ava Louise filmed herself licking a plane seat toilet, starting a bizarre "coronavirus challenge."
  
  
• "Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane," she said.
  
  
• She told Insider she did it because she didn't want coronavirus getting more attention than her.
  
  
• "What's not gunna make people sad is a hot rich blonde 20-something-year-old licking a toilet," she said. "It's not like the virus can kill me anyway because I don't use Facebook."
  
  
• Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

An influencer filmed herself in a plane toilet licking the seat as part of a "coronavirus challenge."

Ava Louise has appeared on the "Dr. Phil" show and has 19,000 TikTok followers and 150,000 Instagram followers. She posted the video to her Twitter on March 14.

"Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane," she said with "love" and "sweating" emojis.



People responded with disgust that she would do such a thing just for the attention.

"The whites are at it again," one person said, while another responded "Classy."

A day later, Louise confirmed that she started the coronavirus challenge for "clout" and that her actions were no worse than "eating a dude's a--."

"I can't get coronavirus," she added. "Just like the gays, rich blonde b------ are IMMUNE."

Louise also started spreading awareness of important social issues.

"OK so now that you're all on my page — racism is bad," she tweeted. "Gay people are good. Transphobia is grosser than me licking a toilet. Good day."


Ava Louise (ig @avalouiise)@realavalouiise

Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane




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Louise told Insider she licked the toilet seat because she was "tired of some b---- named corona getting more publicity than ME." She added that "hot blondes" can recover from anything so there's "no harm done."

"The xenophobia makes me sad," she said. "What's not gunna make people sad is a hot rich blonde 20-something-year-old licking a toilet. It's not like the virus can kill me anyway because I don't use Facebook."

"It was iconic," she added. "ALS bucket challenge could never ... Period."

Overall, her video pretty much had the desired effect, she said.

"I just wanted more attention than this corona ***** but she's GOOD," she said. "So I capitalized off her. And now I'm like global news. My mom told me she's proud of me I shed light on pandemic while wearing Fendi sunglasses ... The serve."

The video has also helped her song "Skinny Legend Anthem" go even more viral, she said, with TikTok megastars like Chase Hudson (lilhuddy) using it in their videos.

@lilhuddy
shoot day! @thehypehouse

♬ Skinny Legend Anthem - Ava Louise
Swab tests have shown the most bacteria and fungal spores on a plane are found on the headrest, seatbelt buckle, tray table, and inside handle of the washroom door. There are probably also more things to catch at check-in than in the bathrooms, and toilet seats may be comparatively quite clean.

That's not to say you should go around licking things.

San Francisco's "shelter in place" shut us down. We are temporarily laying off 90% of our employees here until we are allowed to re-open in April.

sheanu said:

I'm pretty sure our numbers will skyrocket by the time sprint break is over. They're finally admitting that there's community spread going on in South Florida.

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I give it 2 weeks tops. Things are going to get worse very soon.

A little bit of humor in trying times

rayne said:

I...yeah, I don't even have any words for this.

An influencer filmed herself licking a plane toilet seat for 'clout' on TikTok as part of a 'coronavirus challenge'
[email protected] (Lindsay Dodgson)
INSIDERMarch 16, 2020, 8:53 AM CDT

Ava Louise spreading awareness in her own way.

Ava Louise / Twitter

• Influencer Ava Louise filmed herself licking a plane seat toilet, starting a bizarre "coronavirus challenge."
  
  
• "Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane," she said.
  
  
• She told Insider she did it because she didn't want coronavirus getting more attention than her.
  
  
• "What's not gunna make people sad is a hot rich blonde 20-something-year-old licking a toilet," she said. "It's not like the virus can kill me anyway because I don't use Facebook."
  
  
• Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

An influencer filmed herself in a plane toilet licking the seat as part of a "coronavirus challenge."

Ava Louise has appeared on the "Dr. Phil" show and has 19,000 TikTok followers and 150,000 Instagram followers. She posted the video to her Twitter on March 14.

"Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane," she said with "love" and "sweating" emojis.



People responded with disgust that she would do such a thing just for the attention.

"The whites are at it again," one person said, while another responded "Classy."

A day later, Louise confirmed that she started the coronavirus challenge for "clout" and that her actions were no worse than "eating a dude's a--."

"I can't get coronavirus," she added. "Just like the gays, rich blonde b------ are IMMUNE."

Louise also started spreading awareness of important social issues.

"OK so now that you're all on my page — racism is bad," she tweeted. "Gay people are good. Transphobia is grosser than me licking a toilet. Good day."


Ava Louise (ig @avalouiise)@realavalouiise

Please RT this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane

1,001
2:50 PM - Mar 14, 2020 · Miami Beach, FL
Twitter Ads info and privacy

1,320 people are talking about this



Louise told Insider she licked the toilet seat because she was "tired of some b---- named corona getting more publicity than ME." She added that "hot blondes" can recover from anything so there's "no harm done."

"The xenophobia makes me sad," she said. "What's not gunna make people sad is a hot rich blonde 20-something-year-old licking a toilet. It's not like the virus can kill me anyway because I don't use Facebook."

"It was iconic," she added. "ALS bucket challenge could never ... Period."

Overall, her video pretty much had the desired effect, she said.

"I just wanted more attention than this corona ***** but she's GOOD," she said. "So I capitalized off her. And now I'm like global news. My mom told me she's proud of me I shed light on pandemic while wearing Fendi sunglasses ... The serve."

The video has also helped her song "Skinny Legend Anthem" go even more viral, she said, with TikTok megastars like Chase Hudson (lilhuddy) using it in their videos.

@lilhuddy
shoot day! @thehypehouse

♬ Skinny Legend Anthem - Ava Louise
Swab tests have shown the most bacteria and fungal spores on a plane are found on the headrest, seatbelt buckle, tray table, and inside handle of the washroom door. There are probably also more things to catch at check-in than in the bathrooms, and toilet seats may be comparatively quite clean.

That's not to say you should go around licking things.

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"She told Insider she did it because she didn't want coronavirus getting more attention than her."

I don't say this kind of thing... like ever... because I feel that words mean things... but some people are just about a waste of space.

Ohio primary is a freaking mess over this.

Spoke to a colleague whose family lives in China and they’ve been on lockdown since early January. Her dad has a small business and he’s had to close for months but still make payroll.

A few weeks ago when the virus started appearing in the U.S. her parents wanted her to quit her job and move back to China because they didn’t think Trump and the U.S. was taking it seriously enough. They feel a bit better now.

She also says the government was definitely trying to conceal it at first but that the numbers being reported now are pretty accurate. Because it’s being reported from multiple sources and because there is so much security from everywhere including their own citizens, it would be extremely difficult for them to hide additional cases.

it took them almost 3 months of lockdown to get it under control.

A nurse in one of my nurse groups got punched in the face at the grocery store because she was in her scrubs and a scared citizen blamed her for spreading the virus.

I just want to say to all my fellow nurses, nurse techs, and other hospital staff.. especially housekeeping who doesnt get enough credit.. thank you for what you do. I know y'all are working hard, working short and are underappreciated for the job you do. Hospitals like to treat us as numbers rather than individuals trying to do the best job we can.

As things get worse the hospital are going to be demanding more and more out of you. I know you all are worried about your patients but also what you are bringing home to your own families.
I know you all aren't just dealing with sick patients but also their worried, scared families as well. And hospital administrators that forget what it's like being at the bedside.

Take care sisters (and brothers) in scrubs. You are the heartbeat of the hospitals. Thank you and God bless.

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