Yes!! It's possible.
test, test, re-test and stay home. This is how they did it.
Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero
Important story which underscores the importance of testing and just how badly our government failed us.
Hard to disagree w/this.
But, there's still time. It's late, but not too late. We can still mitigate.
Need to bypass trump admin. All American creativity and innovation and determination needs to be out in force. That* can still push the brakes.
I get the sense governors and mayors are going to have to individually negotiate with coronavirus testing kits and labs to increase testing. It can be done.
Yes. And turn around manufacturers for what is needed now, masks, ventilators, new hospitals Like if it were wartime. Bcz it is. Also food production and delivery, different type of services, maintaining critical structures (like garbage, recycling), getting creative abt that, new ways. Mental health, services, dentists, everything is affected and will domino. Need to get creative.
Agreed. We need to get really creative about a lot of things. Hawaii invented telemedicine and it needs to ramp up. We need to figure out medical supplies and vents.
I did not know that about HI. Am all ears :--)
It was originally developed by the largest health plan in HI (a BCBS licensee) to bring medical and mental health services to remote outer island locations with few resources.
So ppl use it? like tele-video-medical visits? routinely?
Yes, even on Oahu. You have to see your provider at least once in person, but after that, you can use tele-medicine for both mental and physical health services. Our neighbor islands don’t have enough healthcare providers and telemedicine really has bridged a gap.
@evamarie @artemis Just in case it isn’t clear, “Oahu “ as Eva-Marie mentions is our so-called most advanced island in Hawaii according to “western civilization” standards (not my standards, but anyways...). So, the point being if even they’re using telemedicine successfully, that’s pretty remarkable.
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Wondering whether they look at safety/medical errors comparing telehealth vs. traditional.