I am an ER nurse in Denver. Take COVID seriously, stay home.

NYC said 80% are normally being used? Availability is a huge issue.

Yes, but it's also life. We all make choices and if you choose to eat processed food, over eat, live in anger, smoke/vape, take drugs etc you are going to face the reaper a bit sooner than anybody wants. What scares me about the OP is that people with real issues. An elderly person with a UTI that is now becoming febrile, a person with jaw pain and WADO ( weak and dizzy) not seaking treatment because they are afraid to go to the hospital because of covid 19. I too work in health care in Denver. Wait times are normal.

I am a nurse and I agree with op.

One interesting thing I just learned is that a lot of the approximate 3000 tests they have taken are pending, so there will be a big spike in cases once those are run through. The places being hit the hardest are the tourist destinations in the mountains. On the town hall with my congressman they said they have 600 pending tests from Vail.

rojo wrote:

But here is an example of action we took behind the scenes.

The OP is posting from Colorado Springs. There was a 2nd post from a person also claiming to be a Denver nurse who said the OP's post was a lie. That post was coming from California. That person has banned and the post was deleted.

Thanks.

My wife is a nurse and the OP's post was written like something a nurse would say, in my opinion.

There's Hope wrote:

Some survivor stories:

I'd rather the media do more reporting on the situation at ER rooms in the US.

Unless that's not allowed by some privacy thing. But wouldn't that be more relevant than the accounts of one or two people that had this and recovered? Some people have mild symptoms. Some don't. We get it.

What we care about is the situation in the hospitals, the number of serious and critical cases. Media, do your job.

My wife works at a hospital. Don’t mess with this. Just plan on staying home the next few weeks unless you have to get food or must work outside the home. No need for hysteria. Chill out and help society out.

Sadandtrue wrote:

I am an ER nurse in Denver. The Denver ER's are full of otherwise young people in there 30-40s. Yes, we have older people as well but almost equal numbers of younger folks in the ICU on ventilators. Will the younger people die? Probably not but it would surely be horrible to be on a ventilator while sedated (You have to be sedated to be on one). Take care of yourself people wash your hands and stay at home. Most hospitals are not even releasing the numbers that they are confirming on COVID to prevent further hysteria and to make matters worse its estimated one in 30 people who have COVID currently are even tested as the testing kits are few and far between.

unverified info here.

1 in 30 posters about the virus are morons.

you could be legit, who knows?

nobody in my contact list of more than 500 people on social media got it.

in thailand its zero, germany zero, canada zero,

well one guy in indonesia does, if the test is correct.

however a family member committed suicide, and tons of people have no job now.

i favor being brave and doing healthy things for yourself, as opposed to being a coward, hiding and looking for the government to screw everything up.

it is not illegal to be brave.

be nice if the cowards and morons moved to greenland.

sorry

29 out of 30 posters are morons about the virus.

be careful what you read.

who knows, maybe in the future it will be politically correct to have balls.

seems like a long shot right now.

To the Bros..Yes the trolls (whether Russian or not) are taking you for a ride. Ignore the liberal hypocrisy here.

just do your part wrote:

My wife works at a hospital. Don’t mess with this. Just plan on staying home the next few weeks unless you have to get food or must work outside the home. No need for hysteria. Chill out and help society out.

Measures should be taken to help society stay home. For instance all completed media waiting for release/publication should be released digitally now.

OP has terrible grammar and spelling. I seriously question whether he/she/it is an ER nurse.

But nice try.

Stay inside bros &we get through it

Doctor Wang wrote:

OP has terrible grammar and spelling. I seriously question whether he/she/it is an ER nurse.

But nice try.

You used an incomplete sentence , begun with a conjunction, now we have to seriously question everything you say.

It’s referred to as ‘an implied independent fragment’, since you’re apparently interested in learning complex English structures.

joedirt wrote:

One interesting thing I just learned is that a lot of the approximate 3000 tests they have taken are pending, so there will be a big spike in cases once those are run through. The places being hit the hardest are the tourist destinations in the mountains. On the town hall with my congressman they said they have 600 pending tests from Vail.

It seems like especially Colorado has stopped testing despite being one if the epicenters of this outbreak in the US. Why is Colorado not getting the resources to test like NY?

Wuhan owned

Doctor Wang wrote:

It’s referred to as ‘an implied independent fragment’, since you’re apparently interested in learning complex English structures.

Ebonics has a name as well, but that still doesn't make it proper English. Do you even have a MD/PhD, Mr. Wang? Are you even Asian, or do you just enjoy writing as an English slang for penis?