YMCA Short Course Nationals Cancelled For First Time Since 1947

Erwin Ortiz Torres

Sad.

Too stupid…too gullible…..you’ve got
no memory….sars? Swine flu? No..the 1918
flu is not the template….bad nutrition,
bad water, bad sanitation … China lies…
Wuhan deaths are from pneumonia…in the world’s
most polluted and now 5g microwaved city. This is
control testing…problem / reaction/ solution$$$…opps…CNN is on…excuse me…more news…

Feel so sorry for the kids. There are so many other options they could have tried before deciding to cancel.

Alan Mayfield thx for the post
3/8/2020

Notes from the front lines:

I attended the Infectious Disease Association of California (IDAC) Northern California Winter Symposium on Saturday 3/7. In attendance were physicians from Santa Clara, San Francisco and Orange Counties who had all seen and cared for COVID-19 patients, both returning travelers and community-acquired cases. Also present was the Chief of ID for Providence hospitals, who has 2 affected Seattle hospitals under his jurisdiction. Erin Epson, CDPH director of Hospital Acquired Infections, was also there to give updates on how CDPH and CDC are handling exposed health care workers, among other things. Below are some of the key take-aways from their experiences.

1. The most common presentation was one week prodrome of myaglias, malaise, cough, low grade fevers gradually leading to more severe trouble breathing in the second week of illness. It is an average of 8 days to development of dyspnea and average 9 days to onset of pneumonia/pneumonitis. It is not like Influenza, which has a classically sudden onset. Fever was not very prominent in several cases. The most consistently present lab finding was lymphopenia (with either leukocytosis or leukopenia). The most consistent radiographic finding was bilateral interstitial/ground glass infiltrates. Aside from that, the other markers (CRP, PCT) were not as consistent.

2. Co-infection rate with other respiratory viruses like Influenza or RSV is 24 hours apart.

10. All suggested ramping up alternatives to face-to-face visits, tetemedicine, “car visits”, telephone consultation hotlines.

11. Some larger hospital systems are using a variety of alternative respiratory triage at the Emergency Departments.

12. Health Departments state the Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) is the least important of all the suggested measures to reduce exposure. Contact and droplet isolation in a regular room is likely to be just as effective. One heavily affected hospital in the area is placing all “undifferentiated pneumonia” patients not meeting criteria for COVID testing in contact+droplet isolation for 2-3 days while seeing how they respond to empiric treatment and awaiting additional results.

Feel free to share. All PUIs in the county so far have been negative.

Martha.

Martha L. Blum, MD, PhD

?? panic attack decision made too soon

Psychology majors will be able to write their thesis on mass hysteria from the outcome of this virus.

This is an age group meet. It’s not the Olympics – although those may get cancelled too. THAT is incredibly sad – another age group meet? Not so much.

Maybe they could have kept the “meet” but each region could have held timed races so the kids could still do it- like formalizing a time trial could concept.