Loading ...Retired nurse friend who has tile to watch it sent me a very long text. Here’s part of it.
I just finished reading the latest California Covid-19 update. 1) we had averaged 25,000 new cases per day over the past 3days. That’s a 27 percent jump in new cases over the weekend
2)hospitalizations are up 72 percent in the past 14 days. 3) 63 percent of hospital beds in the state are occupied 4) 69 percent increase in ICU admission in CA in the past 14 days. 5) only 14 percent of the critical care system is available. Covid-19 cases in CA are reaching the highest since the Covid pandemic started. To my understanding a three week lockdown starts when the availability of ICU beds dropped to less than 15 percent. Dave thinks it will start by Sunday here. Lock down would continue through Christmas and New Year’s Day. What a year!!. This hateful virus from China continues to take pleasures away from us. I think many people, especially those who have pre-existing medical issues are living with fear/ anxiety. When I think of more jobless people and more and more bankrupted small business and more cases of suicide, the Covid vaccines are the only hope available for us to slow down this pandemic sooner.
According to the first person in US who had a trial Covid-19 vaccine on March, she had mild side effects, mostly pain at the injection site. Her side effects were mild and similar to those of a flu shot. The most common side effects are chills, fatigue, headache, myalgia and pain at the inj site. Both vaccines ( Pfizer and moderna) are more than 90 percent effective with more than 70,000 people on the trials. Unfortunately these vaccines were not effective with approximately 7,000 people (10 percent of 70,000 people).
Knowing what happened to those 7,000 people would be useful for us to decide whether or not we get the vaccine because each of us has a risk of being in this minority group. I hear no significant adverse effects like autoimmune disease or death have been reported so far.
I am so glad to hear that you do not work with the nurse who was exposed to 8 Covid positive people!!. I was really worried about you. Is she infected or not?