20:00 Wal-Mart & Target Lines are
Packed, full carts, shelves empty.Panicked and aggressive
shoppers hoard food and TP..
It's cardiac...
Continue hoarding.TP is gone, canned goods are gone...
20:55 The ED doc did a cardiac
Work up, everythings negative.So far 2 RNs, a tech, and a medic - care for pt X
A woman scores 3 12 packs of TP
A fight breaks out....
21:15 Pt X Becomes confused, his hr is 120, his o2 sat is 94%.His temp is .None of the ED team have been tested by their hospital
Packs of TP...
21:55 PT X 02 sat dropped to 88.
Signs of dyspnea increase.His ang is bad.Staff are overwelmed, oxygen is high flow...
Intubates.No ones thinking about
Invisible microbes..
02:00 pt X IS now in ICU.Managed by a hospitalist, RN And RT.He returns from Radiology where he had a CT...
25.00 for a 12 pkg of AngelSoft
06:15- the Hospitalist shows the ICU staff the patchy infiltrates on the CT.A COVID19 test is ordered
The patients known.He's one of their ED docs.Not word about the who is said.
Ones has a cough.But doesnt call in, each feels fear.All silently cuss greedy citizens.Then go to bed, ready to start over at 1900