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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Allyson Chiu @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 6
[...] Christie’s announcement, which followed news that Trump, first lady Melania Trump and other Republican leaders had tested positive for the virus, sparked a flurry of reactions online. Chief among them: confusion.
“Regarding Chris Christie, can someone please tell me how one checks into a hospital as a ‘precautionary measure’?” one person wrote on Twitter. Another person asked, “Can an ordinary citizen with mild symptoms just check themselves into a hospital out of an abundance of caution? Is that how this works?”
Not exactly, experts say.
“What occurred over the weekend with Governor Christie sharing on social media that he was checking himself into the hospital because of his covid-19 diagnosis, that would be extraordinarily uncommon,” said Mark Shapiro, associate medical director for hospital services at St. Joseph Health Medical Group of Sonoma County, Calif.
The process of being admitted to a hospital with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, is much more complex than Christie’s tweet may have suggested, Shapiro added. He, and other experts, urged people who test positive for the coronavirus and are asymptomatic or exhibiting mild symptoms not to show up at hospitals seeking to be admitted for treatment [....]
The procedure at most hospitals, according to Shapiro, is that people who fall ill after contracting the coronavirus are admitted through emergency departments following an assessment by a team of health-care providers. At Mayo Clinic hospitals, for instance, members of the covid-19 front-line care team, many of whom are primary care providers, call patients with positive test results and ask them questions about their condition, which helps with “risk stratification,” said John O’Horo, an infectious-disease specialist with the clinic in Rochester, Minn. In the event that hospitalization may be needed, people usually are processed through the clinic’s emergency room, where they will receive a more thorough assessment to see if they should be admitted [....]
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And yes, they make mistakes. A fever is not enough. Hard time breathing is not enough. People get sent home, maybe with an oximeter, and die there from like, a stroke or cardiac arrest. And Covid doesn't go on the death certificate. That is why the NYTimes has figured the deaths by comparing with above average death numbers from the previous year.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 2:17am
Pissed Libertarian sez:
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 9:15pm
Of note: He's white. Judging by the taxes he paid, he also makes decent money. And he still didn't get hospitalized much less get the $1.5 million treatment.
Like it or not, that is the current protocol, whatever your color of skin.
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 6:06pm