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Her interventions are exercise for cancer patients. She lectures in kinesiology. Should someone set her straight about use of terminology?

Update this morning 3/26 from Governor Como: Average length of time a Covid-19 patient is on a ventilator is 11-21 days (normal patients use is 3-4 days average, according to him).

I watched Andrew Como, Governor of New York propose that other USA states send a lot of ventilators to NY now. The state is short tens of thousands of ventilators. And then Como said he would send the ventilators back to the states from which they came and send his hospital staff and along...

I heard the head of the doctors' union in France speak on national news the other night in Paris, in French about the 4 young men who had serious cases of the virus and were very young men. The only thing that those 4 had in common was that they had taken ibuprofen for fever reduction early in...

What a US federal health official said yesterday is that the number of US cases (and that's with some serious lack of testing) is at the level Italy was at, two weeks ago. Sobering.

if there is a manpower shortage, I'd like some warning. Because of earthquake preparedness (un- in my case) I have saved gallon empty jugs and can fill them up with tap water with advance warning and add some bleach (forget the dilution but it's online...emergency disaster water something) and...

Kind of reminds me of my sister. She reported to jury duty today and stayed there for six hours in a tiny room with 35 others. And then went before a judge to declare her excuse ("I cannot sit for two hours."). I would have left as soon as I saw the tiny room filled with people. Damn the...

Can't believe it, I just watched Simon Wesley on a US PBS Newhour broadcast (about 34 minutes in) He has a certain manic self-confidence that I'm sure I would find annoying. (No offense meant to bi-polar individuals.) Here in the US, the governor of California today had a televised and long...

I like this statement from the head of WHO health: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---9-march-2020

I like your expression, ignorant nutcase. Says it all.

My question is why was it found in feces? Is that in only serious cases with organ failure/death? Did the virus appear in feces because the GI tract is colonized or is it cross-contamination from hands? Or lab error or contamination of bedpans or? I don't know. Maybe best to eat with...

Interesting! I think my coursework and clinical experience are past their sell-by date.

For the record, urine is sterile unless you have a urinary tract infection, but picks up germs as it exits the body and of course later begins to smell urine-y.

My favorite disinfectant is cheap and easily available, or was. Household bleach. We used it in the dialysis units to disinfect machines and surfaces. It's one part full-strength bleach to 9 parts cold water. (you can eyeball it making sure there's more than enough bleach, but may lighten...

I read an article in the NYTimes today about a mathematician's review of the Covid-19 statistics. He said that if there is a community case that is hospitalized (a serious case), then it has certainly spread already (to an extent) in the community. This is based on the serious case rate...

I think the anglo-saxon cultural expectation of stoicism (versus the Latin one of expressing one's emotions of pain) play a role here in the concept of pain catastrophizing. One is expected to (I've read too many times) to "just get on with your life." Alas, it doesn't work that way.

For women only, if you fear running out of loo tissue : use an od rag to wipe off the few drops of (sterile) urine. Keep it by the toilet and rinse rag every other day in hot water. This works and isn't gross at all. This can decrease the amount of tissue used by half. I'm doing it for fun...

I have moments where instead of thinking of getting a hearing aid, I hope for the opposite: complete deafness.

I know this sounds weird, but I have two rooms, one hot in the summer which is nice in the winter. Do you have another room that is quieter than your bedroom that you might consider turning temporarily into a bedroom, if need be? I would purchase some headphones, making sure you can return them...

Our president yesterday had a televised meeting with heads of big pharma. The president kept insisting that the current flu vaccine could be tweaked into a Covid-19 vaccine. The incredulous looks on the pharma heads. local report. Our public health department is trying to trace over a 100...