T.Allen
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Positive news doesn't bump ratings. After this is all over, cable news will need a stimulus package, or they'll just make up some other stuff.
It is available here. This is an aggregate based on available data. May not be fully accurate but provides an indication.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/
Right.
Here's another source for testing. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data
One thing I've noticed about the testing info that's available is that it is not as timely as the other stats...
My wife's coronavirus test came back negative. The diagnosis is viral bronchitis. She's out of work for the rest of the week. The doc said she can return when she can quit coughing. We are trying to figure out how isolated she needs to be at home.
Thanks for you thoughts and prayers!
Bob
My wife's coronavirus test came back negative. The diagnosis is viral bronchitis. She's out of work for the rest of the week. The doc said she can return when she can quit coughing. We are trying to figure out how isolated she needs to be at home.
Thanks for you thoughts and prayers!
Bob
East Honolulu with a nice view of the ocean. Given the possibility of death at any moment makes you realize that there are many old musicians who need to survive through this epidemic. Please do not take Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Angus Young, David Crosby, or any other legends who helped me get through the bad times. In my life, there was no decade as crazy as the 60's or confusing as the 70's, unless you happened to live through the 1940's. The wife tells me her father opened the gates of Auschwitz at the end of the second world war. A walk through hell on earth.
Here`s a video taken on Wednesday of Waikiki Beach---so surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32...Z6sH_6ermasSqwDn1Ct9lCKzhvEDXMoaxwFSc7NH0hZ7c
So after a 2nd trip to A&E (this time in an ambulance) and another set of chest X-Rays (apparently COVID leaves some VERY distinctive patterns in the lungs) my wife has definitely HAD it - 3 GPs and 2 hospital visits all saying same thing, despite no blood test.
Whole thing started over 3 weeks ago and we have also had 2 trips to the COVID Clinic in that time, 2 simultaneous doses of strong antibiotics and 2 doses of steroids (she is also a medically reliant asthmatic so that was also a worry) and up to today her breathing was still painful, unable to rest but with a better blood oxygen level.
Its been a rough few weeks but today's tests have also shown a nasty surprise, a suspected pulmonary embolisms (PE) which may also account for some of the chest problems and we are not dealing with that, COVID is now in the rear view mirror and we are dealing with this.
Seeing as she was self-isolating from the very beginning due to the asthma, there is a huge potential I brought it into the house but that I have remained mainly asymptomatic - had the sniffles a few weeks ago but put it down to sudden rise in pollen count, hmm. She was also coming back through Europe by air just as this was getting into gear in the UK so we haven't ruled out a long incubation period and exposure via the travel.
Apparently , it's a nasty fucker that leaves you feeling like you have been hit by a bus and the recovery is a rollercoaster of ups and downs over 4-5 weeks.
And one of the first GPs said the transmissibility is catching out even those who are being careful, its nasty folks, stay safe and look out for each other.
One thing for our UK bods, the health service at local GP and hospital level has capacity and these guys are absolutely doing their very best to help, everyone we have dealt with could not have been better, my respect for all they do is off the charts. Don't feel like you are being a fraud or burden, they want to help.