A high school friend of mine moved to Massachusetts last year. She is a hospice nurse. She’s on about day 12 of being sick. It looks like she is over the worst of it.
That’s what she said. You think it’s all better then the virus goes “Hello still here.”
And she did eventually get transferred to the rehab facility and was being slowly weaned from the ventilator, but never really regained consciousness. She came down with a second round of pneumonia and died this afternoon.
Ohhh, no, Eva. I am so sorry.
I’m very sorry to here it.
I know several people who have got it or had it, some confirmed by test, all related to a school. I know one person who died from it (father of child at school). This is why opening schools first is madness. The idea that pupil are relatively safe may be true, but (a) children may be able to pass to other children and adults) and (b) adults are still working together and passing. Children cannot self distance.
These are my opinions based on experience, but as I have seen no hard evidence, it is all I can go by.
I just learned that my great aunt (who lives in Chicago) has it. She just got out of the hospital and seems to be on the mend.
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I was wondering about you/her in light of the recent report that 88 percent(!) of ventilated patients in NY have died.
Just learned that my uncle has it. He caught it from a friend in his assisted living facility. The friend has since died. My uncle seemed to be getting better but is now tanking again. My understanding of the disease course is that getting better and then worse again suddenly is a bad indicator. He’s 75 with pre-existing conditions. I’m hoping for the best but mentally prepared that it’s not going to turn out well.
I just spoke to a colleague who was out much of January with a respiratory illness. At the time, the doctors decided it was probably severe bronchitis, but now she thinks her symptoms are in line with Covid-19. She plans to get tested for antibodies when that becomes practical. Her entire household got sick to some degree or other at the time, but have all since recovered.
That’s exactly what happened to my stepmother. When I talked to my dad yesterday, he said that her fever was back to almost normal and the rehab people were going to try again to wean her from the ventilator in the next couple of days. She was dead within a couple of hours.
Yes, quite a few by name.
I live in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Stands to reason.
Colleagues of mine. Friends of mine.
Colleagues of my wife’s.
2 dead so far.
One- a 34 year-old man with 2 small kids spent 2 weeks on a ventilator. He is so far the ONLY person to be on a vent in his hospital out on Long Island who is not dead now.
So yeah. It’s not some far off left-wing Blue State Deep State Fake News hash.
It’s the motherfucking real deal. :mad::mad::mad:
ETA: EvaLuna, I’m so damned sorry.
Just found out a truck driver that delivers to us quite often was diagnosed a month ago. No one else at the trucking company has it and no one at our company has gotten it as far as I know. I have not unloaded him lately but he had been using our restrooms and hanging around on our dock. That’s my closest contact I’m aware of.
Sorry to see this.
So sorry, condolences.
EvaLuna and Cartooniverse, I’m very sorry.
A friend from work died of it a few days ago, we weren’t close but it has me shocked, angry and afraid. I can’t imagine how it must feel to lose someone close. 
One of my coworkers at the store I work at officially has it. She has a “mild” case meaning miserable sick but still at home and it’s expected she’ll be OK (but, of course, we’re all worried that might change). It also means that the people who worked closely with her are all out in quarantine for two weeks. On top of everyone else out on quarantine, the folks on long-term leave due to medical conditions that leave them vulnerable, because they’re caring for the vulnerable, or can’t find child care so have to be home with the kids, the mental health days people are taking (which beats ambulance rides for those trying to tough it out and winding up with anxiety attacks that mimic heart attacks), and people at home because other routine illnesses are still a thing.
So on top of everything else we are horribly understaffed until we can get the new hires from this week on line. We’ve been hiring steadily, but the number of people applying for a job where you get contact with hundreds of people a day during a pandemic is not quite the crush you’d get during an ordinary economic crisis, and even with steady hiring we’re starting to lose ground on the staffing
ETA: my friend’s son who was on a ventilator? Still on a ventilator. That’s something like 25 days. Even if he survives there could be all sorts of long term problems from this: permanent lung damage, neurological damage… To repeat: healthy man in his 30’s, no per-existing conditions that would increase his risk of complications. Yet here are the complications.
My uncle died this morning. I don’t think he was ever intubated (non-invasive ventilation), and we got a positive update just yesterday that they were thinking of moving him out of ICU. Then he suddenly crashed overnight. The way this yo-yo’ed has really thrown us for a loop. False hope.
I’m very sorry.
Friend of mine here had an uncle just pass away from COVID-19. His uncle was back in Africa, so going there for the funeral is untenable for a number of reasons, all of which are directly due to the pandemic.
My buddy from college is in the hospital. Fever, trouble breathing, and severe GI distress. He’s around 50, no underlying conditions afaik. His family had it too, but not bad enough to be hospitalized.