re: Hospital employees of the OT

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I gotcha but what happens if severe covid cases double or triple or more? DOn't have the answers, it just seems shaky

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Short version? We're fricked.

Long version? We'll take care of as many as we can until we run out of space, vents, or staff. At some point it will hit a wall. Just depends on what it is. I still highly doubt it gets that bad.

Pretty immature OP. Just because today some aren't busy yet doesn't mean in two weeks they won't be overloaded and totally out of control. To be an American PATRIOT and help President Trump, we need to stay away from people, clean up often and NIP THIS IN THE BUD. At that point, President Trump WALKS in with re-election because it was under control . If we let this virus spread, he's going to lose. End of story.

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And i hope he/she gets better, but you are making a declarative statement that this applies to all (correct me if i'm wrong) when overwhelming majority of serious cases are affecting the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.

Did this virus mutate to start going after the healthy? What are you considering middle age?

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Chill bro. Family member is a treating MD, not a patient. And I'm just relaying the information I was told, its not a "declaration" or a debate lol. As of Monday, all patients referenced previously were between 45-60 yo.

Quit wasting your breath. Many think this is a joke.

I'm a med student at LSU-NO, currently rotating at UMC. Students were pulled from clinical rotations after going in Monday morning. Prior to that, we were told to avoid seeing any patients on respiratory precautions, or anyone with fever/cough, which is a pretty large % of patients. Also, students were told not to use any PPE, which is already running low.

Walking through UMC, obviously there were considerably more patients on strict respiratory precautions compared to normal. The hospital as of Monday was not saturated, and actually looked like a ghost town thanks to limiting visitors, sending home non-essential personnel, and cancelling office visits/procedures not deemed acutely necessary. However, if #'s continue to rise at the predicted rate, I expect NO hospitals will start to develop problems quickly, probably within the next week, 2 if we're lucky. Every day more and more COVID rule-out patients come in. As I'm sure everyone is aware, ventilators will become scarce and PPE is tough to find readily-available.

Of course, teaching medical students is not exactly a top priority during these times, but I couldn't imagine having to act as a school administrator through this. Scheduling of clinical rotations between 3rd and 4th year is extremely complicated, with important deadlines for trainings/residency applications/graduation requirements scattered all throughout the year. Should students continue their rotations because 'this is what they signed up for'? Is there a chance that hospitals & staff may become overwhelmed to the point of needing student's around to give an extra helping hand? But wait, is it wrong to have students paying $1000's in tuition continue to enter hospitals with increasing #'s of COVID cases, putting themselves and their families at risk? If we do send students in, are we essentially sending hundreds of vectors into the hospital and out into the community every day?

I'm on board with administration pulling students for now. I think with cases rising, we're simply going to contribute to community spread by continuing to go to the hospital. Whatever happens, it's logistical nightmare.

Bumping this thread.

Anyone in the Baton Rouge area expecting/hearing anything Hospital employee crisis pay?

scruffy be safe...hate to lose ya

Are you suggesting they have no underlying medical conditions?

No knowledge of that other than age

So what’s the point of posting?

We already know any age can catch the virus
We also know that it can kill ANYONE with other health issues