Does anyone have a personal Covid-19 experience you'd like to share? Have you or family member or friend had symptoms, got tested? If positive, the possible site of exposure?
As of this morning my state has 404 positive cases reported, 23 new ones from yesterday. 5 deaths total.
We were in Las Vegas March 4-10. Just before the news of the outbreak. No illness among the three of us, so far.
PLEASE, no political. Just personal stories if you have any.
Nope.
I was going to ask the same thing.
Using the current (obsolete in five minutes) figures, about 1 in 1000 people in the US have contracted the coronavirus, and about 2 in 100,000 have died.
Several studies have been conducted that put our immediate circle of family, friends, and acquaintances at an average of 150 persons. Using that metric, it's more than 5 to 1 against that we know anyone with Covid-19, and about 250 to 1 against that we know someone who has died.
So it's unlikely we have access to direct personal stories at this point. But we will. We all will.
My personal experience is that dozens of friends and relatives in addition to myself are in vulnerable groups, sometimes multiple categories, like my 70-year-old asthmatic brother.
So I'm worried sick (so to speak), and it probably didn't help that I've calculated the chance that NO ONE I care about will die, and that's about 30,000 to one against. We're all going to lose people.
I have a college friend who works in a NYC Hospital. He does nuclear medicine or something - not on the front lines of COVID-19. He says its way worse than 9/11. The staff is all working tons of extra hours while more and more people come in. Its getting to the point where not having ventilators is only one problem. THey dont have enough medical staff to handle all the patients.
Lets hope that does not replicate in other cities.
No illness in my family that I know of. Everytime I sneeze or cough I get a little worried - I live right on the border of a county that has 800 cases and one that only has 25. (I do all my grocery shopping in the county with 25)
#1 About 3-4 weeks ago my 14-year-old attended a high school event at another high school. A week or so later a news story came out a COVID-19 postive person (the first in the region) had attended the same event. This same person had spent 4 consecutive days at the local Ceaser's casino. Nobody knows where the guy sat at the event.
It's kind of weird here in Portland. It's a big city (bad) with a great healthcare system (good) near one of the country's epicenters (bad), and people are complying with the shelter in place order (good) and people are very nice (very good) and the cost of living is high, so a lot of people are already on the brink (very bad).
We have a relatively low incidence here, but our hospitals are already at capacity and very low on supplies. We know things will get much worse, but maybe the fairly drastic measures, which were taken fairly early in the game, will mitigate that. We're all kind of looking over our shoulders.
My youngest brother lives in a small town in Northern California. He texted me this a couple days ago:
" We had an online consult today through our health program. House calls for the modern world. He said we were low risk (I know, I know) to pay attention to our temps (stable, between 98 and 101) and our breathing. Neither of us is having trouble breathing but we’ll head to emergency if anything turns."
Today's update:
"Did go to ER last night and convinced them to give me the test. Came home and slept for the first time in a while. Awaiting results."
My son-in-law's father has contracted Covid-19, and has taken a turn for the worse. He does have under lying health issues. He lives in Lansing MI.
Originally posted by: cjen
My son-in-law's father has contracted Covid-19, and has taken a turn for the worse. He does have under lying health issues. He lives in Lansing MI.
About the only positive about that is that hospitals in Michigan will soon be overwhelmed and run out of supplies (unless somehow the Orange Asshole ceases his feud with the governor and sends help), so at least he got in while he could still be treated.
Does anyone else find it amazing that the only governors reported to be complaining are DemocRats? Typical DemocRats , always blaming everyone else for their shortcomings and lack of real leadership. And, of course, the media rags Huff Post and CNN have added to and twisted the facts of this lying liberal story. I am still waiting to hear Kevin bash Pelosi and Schumer for holding up the bailout legislation while they added asinine pork to said legislation. If in doubt, go online and read the real story, which I did.
