My dad is still symptom-free, which is a relief. Thanks! I’m doing okay, although I’m *really* weak and tired, and my lungs still feel “funny.” I’d love to be able to get tested to know for sure whether I’m now presumably immune - which would also be *really* useful to know from a public-health point of view - but this is America. I wish we still had reporters like you instead of PR flacks sandwiched between ads for prescription in SF: As Walter Cronkite said of the US healthcare system back in 1990 - in the CBS primetime special “Borderline Medicine,” where he compared it to the Canadian system - “It’s not healthy, it doesn’t care, and it’s not a system.” Well said, Walter. SIDE NOTE: As a long-time advocate for comprehensive national health insurance and universal paid sick leave, I’ve gotten a *lot* of cynical vindication from watching federal, state, and local government’s utterly inadequate response to the crisis. I’ve been sick for around a week and a half with all of the symptoms *except* high fever and pneumonia, so apart from feeling weak, bored, cranky, and stir-crazy, I’m doing okay. That colleague is now on a ventilator in intensive care and is not expected to live. My dad remains symptom-free, but one of his colleagues up here subsequently tested positive for SARS-COV-II. (We’ve been overtaken by New York in number of officially diagnosed cases since then.) As soon as news of the outbreak and of community transmission came out, my dad flew down to LA (wearing an N95 respirator!) to stay with my sister, where he can be more effectively isolated. Hey, how about some first-person commentary? My 93-year-old father and I both live in Seattle, and the Greater Seattle Area was the epicenter of the first US outbreak.
It doesn’t pull in any related general news links, but it does help put the disease in perspective. I wish it was warmer, I’m an outdoors person and sorely miss the warmth, the leafy trees, the freedom of hiking in the woods biking around and fooling around on water.ĬOVID-19 #CoronaVirus Infographic Datapack — Information is Beautiful It is however, still quite cold at times. We are in the northern part of the world, spring is on its way and there is plenty of sunshine and fresh air on most days. The idea is to “flatten the curve” of infections so the health system can cope with it. Not much different than elsewhere in the world. All must self-isolate for a minimum of 14 days and contact health authorities if they have potential symptoms of infection. The federal government has issued special border control procedures and a list of designated airports where travelers can go as well as forbidding entry to all but US citizens and returning Canadians. People are urged to stay home for two weeks (me thinks it will be minimum one month), both levels of government are working up plans that will help with lost salaries and reduced customer traffic. No gatherings of more than 5 to 50 people restaurants to be filled at only 50% capacity The health minister keeps us appraised of # of cases and hospital statistics & bed/ICU availability. Our provincial Premier, Francois Legault, along with his public health ministers, gives a news briefing every day around 1300 hours local time.Īs of yesterday, the province is on semi-quarantine (I don’t use the US term “lockdown”) all schools and non-essential busineses are closed, we cannot visit hospitalised people nor people in old-age & retirement homes.
#Corona tracker bing tv
Our local tv signals providers (cable boxes) have unblocked a few of our national (Quebec, Canada) 24-hour news channels so we can keep up. I use this site for tracking (Johns Hopkins University):
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