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My wife and I caught it thanks to immigration department waiting room jamb packed with Chinese tourists. Acts a little strange; slight sore throat for a day then straight to the lungs. Non OTC expectorant and broncodilator has it covered I can see it hammering chest breathers and sedentary low...

In a clinical environment it's so easy to forget PPE is only half the battle. Out in the field it's actually only a small fraction. Once you've attended to someone you become a potential vector, for both yourself, others around you, and your work in the next house or village. There is no...

It's okay to go to work with... Typhoid Mary, meet #CovidDonald.

Hand sanitizer is just isopropyl alcohol sometimes with hexachlorophene and other gunk. Go buy a gallon for a $10-$20 and go nuts with it. Lots cheaper than a Glock. Handy trick: Wear a pair of those cheap cotton gloves. Soak them in alcohol then take a casual walk around your home, vehicle and...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, instantly corrected Trump: “Let me make sure you get the ... information.” A vaccine could be ready “at the earliest [in] a year to a year-and-a-half, no matter how fast you go,” said Fauci, noting: “Like...

Considering the source, praise indeed. Crowd pleaser You know, like that guy with over 15,000 documented lies, half truths and misinformations to his credit at his poop rallys. Seriously, something like this virus should be taken in the most serious vein possible. If dead wrong, chagrin and...

Interesting quote considering your title on this forum. ;) Those of us who work in and around the medical profession should feel a sense of obligation to avoid media sensationalism. Stick to the facts, statistics, citing credible sources. Not always that easy to do considering the time it...

1918 Spanish flu. Mortality rate, 2.3% Covid-19 Mortality rate: 2.3% Population density is many times greater today and we presently have 83,000 airline flights per day.

'Normal' flu is pandemic, fully established, in the wild. It's mortality rate is <.1% Covid19 mortality rate is presently 2.27% Covid19 was only reported in Wuhan China 2 months ago. At present it is in: China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan Afghanistan Algeria Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain...

Most have heard the old paradoxymoron, 'A Chrisitan Scientist with a hot appendix'. Looks quite likely we will get a new one: Contracting Covid19 at a Trump rally.'

2.3% mortality rate is not a 'nothing burger'.

If your hospital is JCAH certified, all patient rooms are negative pressure. Or rather, the hallways are positive pressure. A magnehelic must be placed in every hallway ventilation system and X reading maintained. etc etc. Meanwhile, our municipality (Maejo -Chiang Mai) had it's first case...

The heck with inventing a nCoV vaccine. Would somebody please create an anti BS spray? Mitigating contagion is a stroll in the park right now, sitting next to ground zero, compared to the profiteering, conspiracy theories and misinformation getting blown far and wide. On another forum I...

Those are the exact results I got. And so here I sit, disabled, non specific nerve damage, wracked with constant muscle spasms and there isn't a thing wrong with me -except the bone test: lead presence, significant. Modern medicine still has a way to go, especially when it comes to nerves.

Yes, another war story. But on base. We got called to the scene where a unit had responded to a few minutes earlier. Chaos. The first unit had parked in front of a dilapidated building. One person went in to search for a patient. A truck came in and T boned the unit, smashing it into the front...

Meanwhile, over at the other end of the spectrum/universe from my OP... I was up at the helipad yesterday because I like to watch helicopters which are very rare here. I've been told most of the choppers here are Vietnam war relics mostly reserved for ferrying VIPs around. (On a good day in...

I got her to pull her skirt up above her knees. (Thai's are extremely modest), Knees touch together, ankles some distance apart. I don't understand why her toes are pointed so far to the sides. Time for an ortho doc to give her a full once over. My comment was presumptuous. They may have known...

Always a possibility. The diet of some groups of people is outright frightening. Offsetting that in much of S.E. Asia is people are very big on fruits and veggies which are extremely abundant and very cheap in all local markets. One major watch for is the greasy pork and rice 3 times a day...

The system here is complex. Very complex. Needlessly so. Read on if you want to work on a classic migraine. First, all Thai's that cannot afford their own insurance, roughly 80% of the population, are assigned a hospital according to their location. Thus they get what services that particular...