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'This system is doomed': Doctors, nurses sound off in NBC News coronavirus survey

This spells out how acute the shortages are in the USA of essential PPE safety gear and the really serious risk doctors and nurses are being forced to run. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
Nurses are bringing in bleach to make disinfectant wipes.

A pregnant nurse tending to a critically ill patient. She had no N95 mask.

Others forced to reuse N95 masks five times
That seems like a recipe for infection spread.

Shortages of sanitisers
In a hospital in Indiana it is only after a patient has tested positive that medical personnel can get a mask

Others are asked to intubate patients, and they have no N95 masks that filter out aerosol and particulates that ordinary masks do not.
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CV19: Lessons from Italy's lockdown

This is good.

“One of the most surprising things was how quickly people adapted. The priorities become clear - food, health, family. That’s it. You adapt in a moment,”

When shelves restocked panic buying stopped bbc.co.uk/news/extra/dj3…
Then the fake information virus took off on WhatsApp and social media.

An “edidemic of information” - or misinformation

It is the 1st time in history we can follow a pandemic in real time.

It is very easy to think our information/ understanding is complete when it is not. Image
*epidemic*

The complaints changed from one of restrictions and disruption to one of grieving as their first wave of deaths hit and there was acceptance of lockdown. Image
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯#FBPE
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CV19 : NHS doctor 'wishes they could forget faces of the dying' - Mirror Online

Patients admitted with other illnesses were fast developing Covid-19 symptoms, and hospital staff themselves could be inadvertantly spreading it.

150 cases in that hospital
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/c…
The doctor wrote that they had "frequently" been exposed to coronavirus, and said: "For the first time in my career I have to face the fear that as a doctor I could be a silent killer."

This would echo what Italian doctors have been saying in Bergamo.
The doctors in Bergamo suggest that the hospital may be a main source of infection.

CV19 patients indirectly transmitting infections to non-CV-19 patients. Ambulances & infected personnel, esp those without symptoms, transmit CV19 to other patients & back into the community Image
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯#FBPE
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What’s Good and What’s Not for Testing COVID-19

Not all tests are equal.

I know many have been asking what goes on when #CV19 is tested.

What isn’t the Government using this or that company, because we need to test test test?

Some explanations here.
esquiremag.ph/life/health-an…
The author, an infectious disease physician (the one begging Trump to stop telling people that they can use hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) plus Azithromycin to “cure COVID” because it can cause a ayrrhtymias and sudden death explains there are two main test types.

Don’t use one
RT-PCR ✅
IgM/IgG ❌
Because CV19 uses RNA as its genetic material it must be reverse transcribed (RT) into DNA before it is processed

This is difficult to do, requires VERY expensive & a PCR machine costs mega £

It’s easy to mess up & is dangerous if staff not well equipped
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