Coronavirus

[Jocephus]

[GeddyWrox]

From a local Franklin County paper.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

From a local Franklin County paper.

[SHOW]

Communist. Why does he hate America?

[heyzeus]

Just read we have 63 cases now here in the US. This seems to be spreading faster than SARS or MERS ever did.

I'm supposed to be going to Mexico City for work next month and TBH I'm starting to freak out a little.

edit: 63 suspected cases *

I went back to Page 1 to see where we were back then. My kids' school district will have more than 63 cases today.

[AdmiralKird]

Op-Ed: As a doctor in a COVID unit, I’m running out of compassion for the unvaccinated. Get the shot

My patient sat at the edge of his bed gasping for air while he tried to tell me his story, pausing to catch his breath after each word. The plastic tubes delivering oxygen through his nose hardly seemed adequate to stop his chest from heaving. He looked exhausted.

He had tested positive for the coronavirus 10 days ago. He was under 50, mildly hypertensive but otherwise in good health. Eight days earlier he started coughing and having severe fatigue. His doctor started him on antibiotics. It did not work.

Fearing his symptoms were worsening, he started taking some hydroxychloroquine he had found on the internet. It did not work.

He was now experiencing shortness of breath while doing routine daily activities such as walking from his bedroom to the bathroom or putting on his shoes. He was a shell of his former self. He eventually made his way to a facility where he could receive monoclonal antibodies, a lab-produced transfusion that substitutes for the body’s own antibodies. It did not work.

He finally ended up in the ER with dangerously low oxygen levels, exceedingly high inflammatory markers and patchy areas of infection all over his lungs. Nothing had helped. He was getting worse. He could not breathe. His wife and two young children were at home, all infected with COVID. He and his wife had decided not to get vaccinated.

Last year, a case like this would have flattened me. I would have wrestled with the sadness and how unfair life was. Battled with the angst of how unlucky he was. This year, I struggled to find sympathy. It was August 2021, not 2020. The vaccine had been widely available for months in the U.S., free to anyone who wanted it, even offered in drugstores and supermarkets. Cutting-edge, revolutionary, mind-blowing, lifesaving vaccines were available where people shopped for groceries, and they still didn’t want them...

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... octor-shot

[cardinalkarp]

Fine if you feel that way, but if so, you probably picked the wrong profession if you’re going to judge people for their personal health choices.

[Jocephus]

a doctor's medical advice/opinion/education isn't that important after all when it comes to medical things

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Fine if you feel that way, but if so, you probably picked the wrong profession if you’re going to judge people for their personal health choices.

Hardly personal anymore (in most cases). It's either tribal or sociopathic.

[Jocephus]

all i know is when i have car trouble, i *dont" seek a car mechanic's advice

seriously, aren't doctors supposed to judge their clients? "you're overweight, lose weight", "you have high blood pressure, you need to take these steps otherwise you'll have a heart attack", "licking the rails at subway stations is not safe, stop doing it"

but a new, highly transmittable virus that's killed over 600k in the US alone? nah, i'll listen to aunt frannie on facebook instead.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Fine if you feel that way, but if so, you probably picked the wrong profession if you’re going to judge people for their personal health choices.

People are dying needlessly every day now. Young people in their prime. This is no longer error a personal choice. It's a selfish choice and if I were king, an illegal choice.