North Buffalo

I agree and disagree. Herd Immunity does work imo... problem is not enough of the herd outside of NYC area has been infected and now we are seeing hotspots elsewhere that are even worse prepared with less hospitals and hospital bed per thousand population than my area. If all these yahoos dont take precautions til a vaccine shows up this virus is going to just keep going and going.. The disarray of our healthcare system will delay enough vaccinations to make a difference til next year...

On the sad news front, one of our ER tech's 8 year old son just died of Covid. And one of our ER nurses at my other hospital just checked in last night with SOB.

Wait till they start to travel again...

Yeh post quarantine not working in Weschester... too many yahoos not even carrying masks so they can raise them when they get close to others.., definitely gonna see a second wave. Just went to gas station and cty park. Most are wearing masks but groups of teenagers getting together and enough people not wearing masks not to see a resurgence... Fin stupid but hey keeps me in a job... sigh... so done with stupid people

It is another social media site I think owned by Bloomberg... they track everything... allows for a lot of videos... dont use it though.

Sorry gotta go with Datsyuk was god... His passing, all around game and playoff clutch was something special to watch... bet he could still play in the NHL even if for a short time.

Yeh southern ny was overrun so fast that wasnt an option... we were shipping pts up county anywhere we could find a bed as were furiously opening up old areas and trying to keep non covids in separate rooms.. Its settled down now but for 4-5 weeks the whole area was nuts.

Depends... if chest or CT reveals infiltrated lungs they are admitted... If lungs show mild inflammation of bronchial tubes but little infiltrate they are sent home... told to sequester at home check temps etc and if SOB come back.

Depends on the lab 1-3 days is my experience.

It may have been different.. there was an unknown virus going around at that point, but I have since had this one though not confirmed and it was very different... Still could've been so until a valid antibody test comes out who the hell knows.

Actually we are seeing admissions down at both hospitals I work at, finally seeing some empty beds on some of the floors... ICU is still full because there were so many critical patients on the floors that are now being moved to ICU as beds open up because of pts passing or a few getting discharged. Oh Woody... silly man, you assumed we would exact count... maybe the antibody test if reported correctly... eh who am I kidding... I used to put together stats on Capitol Hill... even when accurate I could always make the trend line or bar chart seem worse or better depending on the agenda. That being said in the NY area we are down to around 300 deaths per day from a high of over 700. I expect that number to keep falling. My wife's hospital is expecting their OR to open up to an abnormal normal schedule. She doesn't look forward to having to deal with the backlog of cases plus the new one's coming on. In other areas of the country, eg FL, GA and parts of TX as well as certain rural areas where social distancing and masking is not being practiced you are and will continue to see spikes.... idiots... We are going to be antibody tested soon and it will be interesting to see how those numbers are reported.

Ah the old virus check... wait you werent talking about farting...?

Mine has come back curly from chemo... my son says I look like a jewish rabi its getting unruly. Need to just buzz the sides and back short but really not sure of my abilities with one of those beard trimmer things I recently bought... ps my son looks like a dark haired Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

One difference is in organizing files.. Mac does it for you... and though PC will do it for you.. you can still manage your own personnel files where you want on your hard drives, ie docs and photos manually a lot easier within programs. MACs though I find a little more idiot proof especially with apps. just imo.

Lysol tastes better

Actually was aware of this stuff especially the headaches, chest tightness and body aches which feel more muscular than the flu. PS hearing they have id'd two different strains, one obviously from China and another from Europe... calling it East Coast and West coast versions according to Radio report today. Beatles said its coming..,

True but larger family/friend groups tend to congregate around RVs. A typical tent holds 2 adults plus 2-3 kids... Some RVs hold double that and with visitors more. My idea of tenting is to get the hell away from people not closer...

TY for info... I need a need a new pair too.

Yeh I agree some of the restrictions are dumb... though kinda get the camping thing... it should be defined better. No large scale camping... one tent. RV parks meh... problem we see along the the lower ny camp grounds is large family groups getting together at camp ground and they are hard to police... plus state is trying to save revenue not having to police so it sort of makes sense. Your idea of camping and mine is not what others think it is.

I get it and that is fine as long as folks practicing social distancing... this virus is so contagious and can be deadly.

I don't think it is quite accurate... I thought I read there were a couple of deaths under 18, but yeah not many. However, and here is the caveat... we are starting to see more and more young people getting admitted into the Hospital I work at in New Rochelle. My wife warned we might see a post Easter bump and I think we are starting to see it and it is mostly young people in their 30s. The older folks have either died or somehow managed to survive and been discharged. It will be interesting see going forward what that statistics show in the next few weeks.

True but as is turns out, given how many of those guys played a long time in the NHL, that was one talented hockey team...

Talked to my boss... the photographer and the writer were war correspondents... they just happened to be there when this code was called... and the writers response was he'd never seen anything like it. My response is we see it often.. at least once a day and as Dr. Leno says often recently up to six ER deaths in one day happen. A lot like MASH the TV show only this is real.

Another set of pics from my hospital: Check out this gallery from lohud: St. Joseph's Yonkers ER staff saving lives in COVID-19 hotspot https://www.lohud.com/picture-gallery/news/coronavirus/2020/04/22/st-joseph-yonkers-er-staff-covid-19-hotspot/3003141001/

My hospital in Yonkers AP story just hit the wire: https://apnews.com/e8cc5f5b3b62b22df348ab2a249896ee