re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

Just as an FYI, we are starting to see a strain on our system again here in Northern California. ICU at capacity, staff getting sick, can't get gloves or surgical caps/shoe covers etc. Out of testing supplies so the county is shutting down 5 testing sites until supplies are available. We are not overwhelmed but we are seeing thing begin to deteriorate again.

So I had a Soldier that tested positive for IgG and IgM antibodies but tested negative for COVID infection.

Reading from Dr. Googles. IgG antibodies are produced 1 week after infection and IgM are produced 2-4 weeks after infection. So if he has both that means he was infected 3-4 weeks ago, recovered and has the antibodies in his system? How long do they stay there?

13 of 36 ICU beds are "acute respiratory failure" primary diagnoses with positive test results.

Increased number of staff in the ICU and OR are testing positive. ICU from an exposure that was admitted for ICH and then got symptomatic. So 3 days in ICU with out contact+ precautions. OR as a result of EVS worker who worked 2 shifts with a fever, shared break room with all staff. I don't know how many that are testing positive are symptomatic...contact tracing is essentially testing all employees in those areas.

Edit: to my knowledge no employee has tested positive after a negative test. some have tested positive for a long period of time (3 weeks) but no reinfections.

Study: Cloth Masks Worse than Medical and Control Group

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Cloth masks in a RCT against medical masks and a control group. They had more infections than both the medical mask and control group.

"Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection."

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Rate of burn for PPE will be significantly greater now with so many other locations coming into full bloom simultaneously. Hopefully we’ve fixed those supply chain issues.

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control arm (standard practice, which may or may not include mask use). Standard practice was used as control because the IRB deemed it unethical to ask participants to not wear a mask.

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I’m not arguing for or against masks, but that’s an awful misrepresentation of a poor study.

The control group was basically mask use. What type we don’t know? Could have been medical masks as well.

This would mean all they did was compare cloth masks to medical masks. Which we already know cloth masks are inferior.

We haven’t proven that no masks are better than cloth masks.

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Jesus

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Completely unhinged.

So I haven’t posted in a while since I start a new job in August but put my resignation date for my last job as June 30th and I had a lot to get finished by then.

Anyways, my FIL was diagnosed with COVID this weekend. And there is a long story I could go into about it all since he got tested on Tuesday after an employer tested positive. His work still scheduled all those exposed to come in, and recommended a resting place that took a long weekend so their results didn’t come until first thing Monday.

Unfortunately he started displaying symptoms in Saturday, and the hospital’s test results came back positive on Sunday before the results from a test 4 days earlier came back. And his boss also tested positive so his work really messed up, IMO, keeping them in the schedule.

Unfortunately though, my MIL texted my wife a little bit ago, and they’re heading back to the hospital because my FIL now has a 104 degree fever. Luckily he doesn’t have any other health conditions, but at 63 he’s on the borderline of when age becomes a serious risk factor. Ironically, he came out of retirement to work a couple of years for the health insurance before my MIL’s teacher retirement health insurance costs decrease when Medicare eligible.

I wish the best outcome.

Good luck on the job as well.

Prayers lifted for him, your wife and you.