Coronavirus thread

[HCM]

This is taken from a friend in the industry regarding COVID-19 and the particularly virulent SHOT Show crud this year.

It's funny how many private-message and phone conversations I have had with firearms industry folks over the past three weeks whose "SHOT Show Crud" symptoms exactly matched the symptoms of COVID19. More than a handful missed their original flight home from Vegas as a result of illness.
SHOT Show 2020 was from 1/21-1/24.
1/10 was two weeks before the LAST day of the show
1/7 was two weeks before the first day of vendor set-up.
I have absolutely ZERO science to support my hunch, but boy wouldn't it be interesting if there was a way to test to see if someone had already *had* COVID19, right?? I'd LOVE to be able to test every attendee of SHOT 2020.
My gut tells me a bunch of us would have pissed hot on 2/7.

Given the prior posts about COVID cases in the US being traced back to 01/21 and before it is plausible. Thoughts ?

[YVK]

Looks like things are heating up in NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Un0W5vtEp0

It is obvious he's in a tough spot and NYS is hit the hardest in absolute numbers but he ain't gonna get the stuff he wants. NYC has 3,000 ICU beds that by definition should've had equal / appropriate number of vents. They double that number - they can take in 3,000 vents. They are unlikely to be able to deploy 20,000 vents nor should they get all of the stockpile. There are places in the country that have very similar per capita rates as NY has, with a lot less available resources. As far as moving vents from one part of the country to another - give me a break. No facility will release any resources until things are fully back to normal. Whoever gets those vents first will keep them all the way to the end.

[YVK]

AZ Governor Ducey issued an executive order allowing doctors to do tele-medicine visits over the phone, prescribe meds and bill the medical insurance companies as if it was a live in person visit.

Good for him and you guys. We've been told, yet again today, that we won't get paid for phone visits but we will get an wRVU credit. About 0.1 wRVU per encounter . The true tele appears unrealistic because the entire world moved to remote work and they can't source webcams anywhere.

All of us at this point stopped caring about payments and productivities. The corp said today that if they have to send workers home because of low volumes and can't redeploy them somewhere, they'll keep them paid. I hope that holds true.

[jellydonut]

This is taken from a friend in the industry regarding COVID-19 and the particularly virulent SHOT Show crud this year.



Given the prior posts about COVID cases in the US being traced back to 01/21 and before it is plausible. Thoughts ?

Considering this (overhyped) virus provokes (relatively) mild symptoms in most people that catch it, started spreading in December last year, and China kept lying about it and didn't take any real measures for the first two months.. I consider it inevitable that it started spreading worldwide in January or earlier.

[Stephanie B]

I just got this email from US Army HRC. Specifically seeking "Health Care Specialties" but anyone interested can respond. I already told the Senior Leaders of the GAARNG to call me if they need me. I am definitely not a medic.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

Army Announces Voluntary Recall of Retired Soldiers for COVID-19 Response

The U.S. Army is reaching out to gauge the interest of our retired officers, noncommissioned officers and Soldiers who would be willing to assist with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic response effort should their skills and expertise be required.

These extraordinary challenges require equally extraordinary solutions and that's why we're turning to you -- trusted professionals capable of operating under constantly changing conditions. When the Nation called -- you answered, and now, that call may come again.

If interested and you remain qualified to serve in any of the following health care specialties: 60F: Critical Care Officer; 60N: Anesthesiologist; 66F: Nurse Anesthetist; 66S: Critical Care Nurse; 66P: Nurse Practitioner; 66T: ER Nurse; 68V: Respiratory Specialist; 68W: Medic - we need to hear from you STAT!

If you are working in a civilian hospital or medical facility, please let us know. We do not want to detract from the current care and treatment you are providing to the Nation.

While this is targeted at medical specialties, if you are interested in re-joining the team and were in a different specialty, let us know your interest.

A friend of mine, who has been retired for over 25 years, also got an email from the Army asking if she was interested in coming back in. (She didn't have a medical MOS.)

[Caballoflaco]

WA isn't the state to watch now. We'll probably be turning the corner in a week or two. I'm not so sure about the rest of the country.

I’m looking at Washington because they’ve had wider spread monitoring for longer than any of the other hotspots, though considering travel patterns it’s hard to imagine that New York didn’t have community spread at the same time as Washington state.

On the plus side there were only 119 new cases reported in WA yesterday.

[revchuck38]

A friend of mine, who has been retired for over 25 years, also got an email from the Army asking if she was interested in coming back in. (She didn't have a medical MOS.)

I got the same email. Pretty sure it was an email blast to everyone HRC had an email address for.

[Kanye Wyoming]

There is a doctor/finance guy on Twitter who seems like he might be legit (I couldn’t say) and who has had some interesting thoughts. One thing he’s suggested is that, as with SARS, the hotness of the initial load of virus you get (e.g., someone infected sneezes on you versus surface contact), strongly influences the severity of the infection. Which may explain why most younger, healthy people aren’t getting severe symptoms or dying, but that among those who do a lot of them are doctors, nurses and others in close contact with those infected. Here’s a screenshot of the first tweet in this particular thread, and below that a link to the thread which in turn has links to various studies. Thoughts from the P-F Medical Corps?



https://twitter.com/jamestodaromd/st...739504642?s=21

[peterb]

This is taken from a friend in the industry regarding COVID-19 and the particularly virulent SHOT Show crud this year.
Given the prior posts about COVID cases in the US being traced back to 01/21 and before it is plausible. Thoughts ?

From a Chinese study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Jan. 30:

Conclusions: On the basis of this information, there is evidence that human-to-human transmission has occurred among close contacts since the middle of December 2019. Considerable efforts to reduce transmission will be required to control outbreaks if similar dynamics apply elsewhere. Measures to prevent or reduce transmission should be implemented in populations at risk.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...bation-period/

[Lester Polfus]

I’m looking at Washington because they’ve had wider spread monitoring for longer than any of the other hotspots, though considering travel patterns it’s hard to imagine that New York didn’t have community spread at the same time as Washington state.

On the plus side there were only 119 new cases reported in WA yesterday.