720 миллионов

человек в Китае "на карантине" или "локдауне"  вразной степени . 720!
Это больше, чем популяция США более чем в  2 раза.
Говорит ли это другим странам о серьезности эпидемии?
Не знаю.
Скорее, думают,  что Китай "упражняется".

Готова ли Америка? Ага, счас.

У меня аналогичные ощущения от того, что происходит (точнее, что не просиходит),  и это - минус.
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In my health district I’m assuming there are meetings and plans being made, and supplies being stockpiled. But minimal info has made it to clinical staff, other than already outdated criteria for when to test (If they’ve literally been in Hubei and have severe symptoms). As far as I can tell, no active steps that require spending or manpower allocation have been made. Those will only happen once things get serious. The hospital I work in has always had hand sanitizer stations at every entrance. I’ve seen no change in infection control procedures, and no information posted in the hospital for either patients or staff

Same situation here. I work at multiple hospitals and my coworkers are not educated on the threat at all.

I work in a level 1 trauma ed and have been very concerned at my co-workers lack of seriousness regarding CV.

I work in healthcare but I'm in the lab most of the time. No one is talking about it at all. Not even in a casual way. I don't bother bringing it up because I've already seen some friends saying stupid shit like it's just like the flu.
 

I work in a couple hospitals close by OC.

I’ve never even received an email talking about coronavirus.

I choose to at least wear a surgical mask full time, and my biggest set of glasses I own. Not allowed to walk around with n95 masks,... n95 masks have been locked up for emergency situations...

Some hospitals in Canada started increasing their bed supply and supply of ventilators to gear up for possible outbreaks... they have less confirmed cases in Canada than US but it sounds like they’re more prepared.

my hospital was rumored to have a H1n1 situation, and nobody could find the PAPRs in the hospital.


That's happening everywhere in US. I've seen more pneumonia/flu/upper resp people in the past two weeks than I have in a long time. Nobody was tested for coronavirus. The hospitals are treating it like it's just a very contagious flu. So they use droplet precautions and that's it....
My mother is an ER nurse in Modesto, Ca. She was just hospitalized for 8 days with severe pneumonia & the doctors there REFUSED to test her for the virus. The literally tested her for flu & literally everything else because she was septic & lactic acid levels were 5.6, including a spinal tap for meningitis. It all came back negative, but she "randomly" had pneumonia for no reason that caused her to be hospitalized for 8 days??...

My roommate is currently hospitalized with pneumonia. He traveled from Florida to Maryland via Amtrak, from Maryland to Atlantic City via bus, back from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, where he took a plane home to Florida. They refuse to test him because he doesn't have any ties to China and hasn't traveled there.
 

I work in a busy ED and I just started as a new nurse in October.

First, we were slammed with Flu B. Around Christmas it changed gears and it has been non-stop heavy Flu A positive patients with sepsis workups, pneumonia, ect.

But in the last two weeks I have had a handful of dry cough/sore throat/headache/fever (approximately 1 week onset) patients and they are all coming back Flu A and B negative. We give them cough meds and discharge. I doubt its COVID, but it is interesting that most of those patients work in busy places such as a packaging factory or uber.

We are told to ask if they have traveled to China or been around anyone who has traveled in triage, again when I see them, and we ask incoming EMS prior to arrival. That is as far as it goes.

A good friend goes to the hospital with severe flu like symptoms. He specifically asks is it possible that he has anything related to the coronavirus. He works in a crowded office environment with a lot of people some of which have traveled to Asia recently and a lot of them are sick. His healthcare provider suggests on over the counter daytime and nighttime flu treatment and sends him home. They did not perform any tests to determine whether or not he has anything serious.

 

Er doc. I asked how many N95s we have. The answer is “we aren’t sure but we are working on it”

And you’re right, I absolutely won’t work without PPE and put myself and my family at risk. It won’t matter though. We won’t be able to handle this pressure on the healthcare system here anyway.

At least in Houston, I have been told and shown what doctors and nurses have been sent via a single email about masks. No meetings.

They see it as no big deal and nothing is going to happen. Maybe other hospitals, but thus far not the major hospitals here - unless they are preparing behind the scenes and not telling staff.

If anyone works at a hospital in Houston and has different into, please share. But my contacts at different hospitals (doctors, nurses, pharma) and a major medical center... not seeing it.his is what a doctor sent me that was sent to her and the only thing thus far she has received: https://ibb.co/tsPLF0h

And said this about masks: “Just checked my email. Just if the patient is at high risk we use the masks.”

So only “high risk patients”. No masks for potential cases.

 Currently working a job at the biggest hospital in the Texas Medical Center and I’ve only seen very few people wearing masks. My best friend is a nurse at a hospital in St Louis and they haven’t said anything about preparation for the virus.

I brought this up to my manager at work and was not only laughed at, but the next day a very outdated Coronavirus stat sheet dating from the 5th was pasted on all the doors, with the added text that it's not a danger
 

 

 так что США эпидемия корнавируса не грозит,  и может досаждать только "осложнения гриппа" или "гриппоподобных инфекций"
При этом,  и этот самый грипп выбивает из строя. Больниуы справляются с трудом и могут являться рассадниками инфекции в том числе. Я помню "палаточные городки" для больных,  когда была эпидемия  H1N1. Сейчас готовность  на мой взгляд, меньше, чем в 2009 к эпидемии гриппа.