My husband's coworker's wife is a hospital nurse. She has 5 patients with full on COVID-19 symptoms, but they aren't allowed to report them as potential cases and the government is slow rolling the testing process, so they have no idea when they will get the results.
@H3athers
Dystopian.
What hell for her to work in. She's being exposed daily and her patients are not getting the right support treatment, and other patients are being exposed.
I hope she is journaling this.
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@AirRation We don't seem to be able to learn from other countries' mistakes. Information suppression worked out so well for China, eh? I've read that they are now producing 1M tests per week. We'll be lucky if we get 1M tests this year at the rate they are going.
@H3athers Sometimes I think this not simply gross incompetence, but intentional.
Likewise, UK PM said people should just take it on the chin and instead of taking 'drastic measures' the government needs to 'strike a balance'.
People will die and these politicians have a lot to answer for.
As for the rest: We don't even know the long term effects for those who recover. Damage to CNS, heart, lungs, liver, all suspected.
There are 7 strains of human coronavirus.
(1. and 2. are the common cold)