Could the gov, federal, state or local, designate one under the emergency decree?
GA must be the only state. Besides, they are not opening them before doctorâs offices.
I read the Alabama guidelines because someone sent the link to CC. Doctorsâ offices and freestanding medical practices and similar were opening May 1st but barbers etc. were opening âimmediatelyâ (a week ago?). The putative reason is that more conditions were put on the medical practices in terms of PPE etc.
@Iglooo. No.
Certainly they can. We currently have no idea how long they last. Months? Years? For life? Only time and good research will tell.
The data on very low outdoor transmission seems to have resulted in my governor who is very careful allowing state parks to reopen and allow with certain restrictions golf, boating and fishing.
Here in GA I got an email from my Dentist office that they are reopening on May 4th.
If you are interested in how our immune system works, you might check out the article titled âWhat Immunity to Covid-19 might actually meanâ on Vox.
My office has been open part time during the last 2 months. Taking patients that had to come in. Everyone has to wear a mask or no getting past the front desk. They are all called prior to the visit or as they make the visit. We have a tailor making free masks down the block we send patients to. Mostly everyone gets it. The new normal. We donât have anyone use the waiting room anymore. They are taken straight into a room and most due their paperwork on line prior. If a back up (hasnât happened since volume is down) they will go back to their cars till we call them.
I have heard similar things from my old virology colleagues. Several of them mentioned an observational study out of China (or Europe?) where a significant number of people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 did not have antibodies. The milder the case of COVID, the more likely the absence of antibodies.
Something like 30% of those studied who had mild to moderate disease did not show antibodies afterwards.
I should try to find those papersâŠ
My semi-annual dental and derm exams a couple weeks ago were cancelled. The derm called the day before to confirm and go over the protocol, then called the morning of and said unless it was urgent not to come. My annual cardiology (PSVT controlled with diltiazem) appointment is Monday. I was surprised when they called yesterday to confirm.
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@Nrdsb4 Thanks for the suggestion. I am staying away from Vox for now. There was a Vox article a few weeks ago. I forgot what it was about except to remember the article was totally misrepresenting. For a few days until another article in NYT or WaPo put a light on it, I was quite confused. It is a confusing time with all kinds of âresearchâ quotation going on.
@ucbalumnus - yes! Thatâs the solution. I remember being scandalized as a young adult when my father told me he had originally heard it about condoms and not gloves (!!!).
But in any case, I worry quite a bit about the âoutsideâ of HCPâs PPE being exposed to many patients.
My (California) dermatologistâs office was open yesterday and I had a skin biopsy. My ophthalmologistâs office is reopening for all treatments and surgeries. No one in the waiting room. You can wait in the parking lot and theyâll text you when to come up to the office.
I got an email from my (California) dermatologist and they are open. They mentioned their sterilizing procedures, masks, air filteringâŠand that they will give you steriwipes to use on your way out to the car (the practice is in a larger medical building next to a hospital).
I just made a dermatologist appointment for next Thursday. They agreed that what i was describing would not be something to easily identify and, if necessary, treat using telehealth.
Iâm glad.
I hope elective surgery resumes soon. I have one scheduled for the first week in October, but they know I will gladly come sooner if they re-open and can schedule me sooner.
Do you mean https://www.vox.com/2020/4/13/21219727/coronavirus-covid-19-immunity-social-distancing-end ?
- With COVID-19, there is a perception that speed is more important than accuracy (this is often true with other news, but even more so with COVID-19). So researchers, news reporters, and opinion writers may put something out there that is speculative or incomplete even more easily than on other subjects.
- In general, web news tends to lose the distinction between neutral reporting and opinion, even when from a more traditional newspaper that marks opinions with "OPINION" on top of the web page. On paper, the traditional newspaper puts the opinions in a separate section; this is much less obvious on its web site, particularly when something is linked from the outside. It is common on these forums to see someone posting a link to what s/he says is an article in some newspaper but is really an opinion piece. Web news sites that are not based on traditional newspapers are often less careful about mixing reporting and opinion, and the more politically biased ones intentionally do so, basically treating all news as something to be converted into propaganda. Television news is often even worse.
Our office, even though it is considered âessentialâ, is closed. Much of what we do can be done by telehealth. Nationwide, providers have been developing ways to do testing on line, with a good deal of success (though there are limits of course as to what they can give and what cases are appropriate for teletesting)
No. Itâs called âWhat Immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean.â I found it to be a straightforward article with no agenda. It just explains how our immune system works, how it goes overboard, discusses issues involving immunity, and quotes scientists instead of politicians.
I didnât link it because I was on my phone and also because Iâm still not clear on when we are allowed to link articles and when we are not.