Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The oxygen level is the trigger there. If it starts dropping, time to call the doctor.

 

An infected person is an infected person. Period. Full stop. They require medical resources, which are limited in availability. They provide a breeding ground for a virus whose epidemiology remains unknown.

 

It only takes a handful of people taking it out of the prison to become a problem. Given those infected may not show symptoms, given those who will show symptoms may not show it right away, given those who feel fine and don't know they've been exposed will not self quarantine and expose anyone they live with and given they will still do things like go to the store, therefore that handful can expose an entire community very quickly. So it isn't just a handful of guards

 

It's just a bonus. Most electric blood pressure cuffs give you a pulse count as well. Extra information.

A pulse ox under 94 is low. There have been reports of people who felt bad but not bad enough to go to the hospital who arrived with a pulse ox of 50. This indicates that they were already in full blown pneumonia and basically in critical condition when they arrived in the ER.

 

It's a handful of guards, their contacts over a week, those people's contacts over a week, their contacts, etc.

 

It’s almost as if large gatherings in close quarters help spread the virus. Who knew?

Tyson Foods suspends its largest pork plant amid Iowa outbreak

 

Anecdotal evidence of what the GOP is fearful of:

In addition to those sick, hundreds of workers had stayed home from work out of fear of catching the virus. The plant had been running at reduced production levels as a result.

So people will put their health and that of their loved ones over profits for the kleptocracy? Interesting.

 

Season Two is gonna be huge!*

'Second wave' of coronavirus could be far worse for California than the first, officials warn

Gov. Gavin Newsom and others have said that California and the nation have not necessarily seen the worst of coronavirus and that lifting stay-at-home rules could be disastrous.

“If we all pull back, we could see a second wave that makes this pale in comparison,” Newsom told CBS News. “I don’t anticipate that normalcy that many of us wish for happening anytime soon.”

Concerns about a second wave of coronavirus infections have been echoed by others.

“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield told the Washington Post. “And when I’ve said this to others, they kind of put their head back. They don’t understand what I mean.”

Redfield said a second wave could be more devastating to the healthcare system if it comes at the same time hospitals were dealing with flu cases.

Some California officials have pointed to the 1918 influenza pandemic, in which the second wave of illness was worse in some cities than the first.

“The really important lesson of 1918 is to keep interventions in place as long as possible,” Alex Navarro, assistant director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, told The Times last week. “Because once the controls are removed, it’s very difficult to reinstate them.”

*Not available in North Carolina.

 

1) That Neuse Correctional would screw up something is ... normal. Big surprise there.
2) Worse, now we're not hearing of any solution.
3) Not enough testing ... because none of them are big-time sorts. That's still a bit of an issue.
4) With employees having to cycle in and out of there, how long until those people pass it along to others in Goldsboro? In Wayne County? To other parts of eastern North Carolina?
5) Ahem ... attention, Georgia - and your idiotic governor ...

 

All the original guards were tested (or have been offered such). I would certainly hope they have some sort of testing protocol in place for the new crews.