Dutch Hospital Staff Show ‘Insidious
Nature’ of Coronavirus
Bloomberg,
by
Jason Gale
Original Article
Posted By: kreeger,
3/28/2020 8:45:31 PM
When a handful of Dutch health workers fell ill days after the Netherlands’ first Covid-19 case, it prompted mass screening at two hospitals. What scientists found surprised them.Some 1,353 hospital staff in Breda and Tilburg, who recently suffered typical winter coughs and sniffles, were tested for the coronavirus. Of those, 86 -- or 6.4% -- were positive. Barely half had a fever, and the majority reported working while they were mildly ill.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissGrits 3/28/2020 8:53:44 PM (No. 361249)
These people are mildly ill and still working. And yet such panic! What am I missing here?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/28/2020 9:12:18 PM (No. 361253)
Haven't we been told to ''man up'' and to ''walk it off'' from all our ''betters'' in the media?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sanspeur 3/28/2020 9:45:34 PM (No. 361274)
they don’t even know they’re ill .. is it the spread to weaker people ? Why the panic .. ditto # 1
if we are concerned about transmitting to weaker people isn't that a “pre crime “ event out if orwell ? like driving a car that might hit another or importing an illegal who might commit a crime cause they already committed one breaking & entering the US .. so confusing this tyrannical population control springing from a really nasty super flu in the normal flu season
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Geoman 3/28/2020 9:49:59 PM (No. 361275)
Re: #1 - I believe the issue raised in the article is that those mildly ill and still woking are likely to infect others, some of whom will get violently ill, become a hospital resource drain, and die. The point that I believe the authors were trying to make, aside from making a hit piece on President Trump, is that current testing criteria is too restrictive and excludes many who haver the virus who may then infect thousands more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/28/2020 9:56:57 PM (No. 361276)
It is almost always to deal with illness and incapacitation at home if that is reasonable and possible. I gave hydration IVs and other treatments in my home to a friend who was a Stage 4 cancer patient 20 years ago. The only time they went to hospital - and that was to a wing held by their oncologist for his cancer patients - was when a fever after high dose chemo infusions spiked to a certain level. Then the mad drive to the hospital ensued.
After a surgery last year, my surgeon recommended I recuperate at home rather than in a convalescent facility due to a lower risk of infection and pneumonia.
It depends on the nature of the illness and the care required.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/28/2020 9:59:03 PM (No. 361277)
My takeaway from this article was that the testing criteria, which presently require a fever, may need to be adjusted so that the testing picks up persons who are actually infected but have no fever.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 3/28/2020 10:10:46 PM (No. 361285)
How dare the virus produce only mild symptoms in so many of the infected. COVID-19 is supposed to be life-threatening for anybody infected by it, or so says the hysterical media and the people pushing for shelter-in-place lockdowns.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/28/2020 10:40:32 PM (No. 361297)
I'm sure our Government knows if this thing escaped from a Chinese bio-weapons lab. It's the only reason that I can see to justify the lock-down and allowing the economy to slow way down. I saw a report recently that someone cleverly checked and there are 23 million fewer cellphones active right now in China.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kreeger 3/28/2020 10:42:39 PM (No. 361298)
#5 makes some good points but that is not the reason they are asking old people to stay home. It is because if they have to ration IC rooms, they prefer not to give it to the seniors.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 11:50:38 PM (No. 361323)
This kind of sloppy 'tradecraft' is almost certainly how the virus researcher in Wuhan infected him or herself accidentally and passed it on, outside the lab.
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They are asking the elderly if they would prefer to be treated at home so they don't overload the system. Wasn't this the great health care system that Bernie bragged about?