A current student. Recovered.

3rd Generation Ag said:

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A current student. Recovered.

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HS age, right?

Yes.

Aggie09Derek said:

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Know what nursing home in Round Rock?

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I do not, but based on the information I know, it is likely to be the one that had the big outbreak.

I don't know anyone who has tested positive. I've heard of a few friends of friends.

we are friends with the family that is suing the BCS nursing facility over the death that happened in their facility

Sq 17 said:

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we are friends with the family that is suing the BCS nursing facility over the death that happened in their facility

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Honest question here. What happened and what did the facility do wrong?

I work at an optometry practice and we had a patient that was upset we weren't taking temperatures at the door. We have signage that states if your experiencing any of the symptoms to reschedule your appointment. In our case, I'm just not understanding why people are coming out if they're that overly concerned about contracting the virus. Just stay home. It reminds me of the yelpers looking to give reviews. But then again, this was a problem patient we don't like seeing....even our overly nice doc.

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Sq 17 said:

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we are friends with the family that is suing the BCS nursing facility over the death that happened in their facility

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Honest question here. What happened and what did the facility do wrong?

I work at an optometry practice and we had a patient that was upset we weren't taking temperatures at the door. We have signage that states if your experiencing any of the symptoms to reschedule your appointment. In our case, I'm just not understanding why people are coming out if they're that overly concerned about contracting the virus. Just stay home. It reminds me of the yelpers looking to give reviews. But then again, this was a problem patient we don't like seeing....even our overly nice doc.

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A death is totally the same as "yelpers looking to give reviews". Makes complete sense you would feel that way.

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emando2000 said:

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Sq 17 said:

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we are friends with the family that is suing the BCS nursing facility over the death that happened in their facility

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Honest question here. What happened and what did the facility do wrong?

I work at an optometry practice and we had a patient that was upset we weren't taking temperatures at the door. We have signage that states if your experiencing any of the symptoms to reschedule your appointment. In our case, I'm just not understanding why people are coming out if they're that overly concerned about contracting the virus. Just stay home. It reminds me of the yelpers looking to give reviews. But then again, this was a problem patient we don't like seeing....even our overly nice doc.

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A death is totally the same as "yelpers looking to give reviews". Makes complete sense you would feel that way.

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That's not what I was insinuating. I don't know what happened at all in the nursing home. I didn't even hear about it.

My example was stated b/c I don't know what else we can do at our practice to protect us from any type of potential lawsuit. Also, a bad covid yelp review could destroy any business/practice during this time. Based off conversations with people we're seeing and observing their behavior in our office I'd say the majority are only concerned about the basic precautions (cleanliness, hand sanitizer, masks). A very small percentage are actually concerned about social distancing within the office and small percentage don't seem too concerned at all.

expresswrittenconsent said:

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emando2000 said:

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Sq 17 said:

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we are friends with the family that is suing the BCS nursing facility over the death that happened in their facility

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Honest question here. What happened and what did the facility do wrong?

I work at an optometry practice and we had a patient that was upset we weren't taking temperatures at the door. We have signage that states if your experiencing any of the symptoms to reschedule your appointment. In our case, I'm just not understanding why people are coming out if they're that overly concerned about contracting the virus. Just stay home. It reminds me of the yelpers looking to give reviews. But then again, this was a problem patient we don't like seeing....even our overly nice doc.

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A death is totally the same as "yelpers looking to give reviews". Makes complete sense you would feel that way.

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I almost forgot to mention, I wasn't asking you.

My friend in Oregon is about to lose her husband to this. He will probably NOT count as a Covid death because he has tested negative twice now after three weeks of testing postitive in the hospital. But according to his doctor the her husband's brain was attacked "like Pacman eating vitamins" by the virus to the point that there is no recovery. His body lives on but his brain is gone. Hospital would not keep him after they decided to stop treatments. He was first moved to an Oregan Health facility for Covid patients, but they had NO test kits. After my friend threw a few fits to elective officials, they finally got the kits and he was negative twice . He has now been moved to a nice private Hospice center as they wait for the rest of the body to shut down. My heart breaks for her because since he entered the hospital she had been allowed to see him ONCE in full spacesuit type gear for two hours. He has been alone through this ordeal and for the first weeks was aware and frightened. If there is a blessing it is that now she is told by the nurses he does not voice pain and just sleeps and does not know anything.

He had been in the earliest level and stage of dementia from a stroke, but her doctor said this took him through all seven levels in three weeks time.

He is over 70 as is she, but they both were enjoying life and this horrid illness has caused this. She also tested postive when he got sick, but had the mildest of symptoms--cough and fever for about five days. They had secluded at home and the doctors think it come into the home on some sort of package that they had delivered. No contact to her about attempting contact tracing.

Very sorry to hear about your friends husband. You should tell your friend to look into Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The symptoms you are describing sound exactly like my father who died of PML. I'm not a doctor, but my guess would be it's not COVID-19 given the negative tests and other symptoms.

I have 2 cousins that had it.

One is a male in NYC that never went to the hospital. He finally broke fever and everything after 2 weeks. He is still struggling day to day and hour to hour. He feels okay then "relapses" with shortness of breath, muscle ache, etc.

The other is female in NJ that was in a long term care facility. She has advanced MD and has been in poor health for years. She went to the hospital and had a few rough nights. We were really worried. She spent about a week in the hospital and then released back to her facility and is doing fine.

Just to add a data point, my son (11) was tested as part of a University of Washington effort to test asymptomatic children. He was negative. We've been pretty good about shelter in place since they shut down the schools here in early March, but it was still good to get it made official.

I know 4 people.

2 older adults (60-70 years old) husband and wife + their grandchild <1 year old . Gpa was the source. Midwest state. Linked to meat processing facility.

1 older adult male (70-75 years old) in a care center in NJ. He was sent back to care center with no added care at this time as he's a ward of the state and has a DNR. Unless his case is mild (limited information provided to family), he will die in NJ.

I know only 2 people with confirmed cases. One was an otherwise healthy 29 year old who went through hell with pneumonia and multiple hospital visits, but came through alright in the end. The other is more of my wife's friend, don't really know anything about her case though.

My firm is in 10 states, mostly on the west coast. As far as I know we have 0 confirmed cases out of over 500 employees.

I knew the man had passed and felt it was likely Covid related We had heard that facility had a cluster and a few deaths. , i have no details about the allegations , I only knew they were bringing suit based on news reports.

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1 older adult male (70-75 years old) in a care center in NJ. He was sent back to care center with no added care at this time as he's a ward of the state and has a DNR. Unless his case is mild (limited information provided to family), he will die in NJ.

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He's on a full flow of O2 as possible with O2 sat ~60 according to his sister. Nurse said they don't expect him to make it another day.

Edit: Died the morning of 5/10

I know one friend. He seems to be doing ok. The huge mystery is how he got it.

He claims his whole family strictly quarantined extremely early and took this extremely seriously as his wife is a recent cancer survivor.

I talked to him several times from february through april and he was always harping on how hard they were locked down. Now in may he has it and has no idea how.

It had to have come from groceries essentially, but theyve taken extreme steps to even handle those.

Unless a person goes completely off the grid, I don't think it's possible to 100% eliminate the risk. Groceries, packages, mail, gas all pose at least some risk.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Unless a person goes completely off the grid, I don't think it's possible to 100% eliminate the risk. Groceries, packages, mail, gas all pose at least some risk.

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You could quarantine all deliveries for 72 hours before you touch them but even then it's hard to be certain I suppose.

Some studies have shown communicble virus for a LONG time in some environments. Some show residue that supposedly may or may not b communicable anymore.

Some studies have shown you have to damn near boil it or go over 190f to kill it, or douse it for half a minute in soap or alcohol to kill it.

Other sources say **** like '3 hours in air' or '3 days on plastic'.


The stats indicate the latter may be more true

The actions of governments suggest the former.

Who knows. If you really want to not get it, get your hazmat suit on and fully disinfect all packages thoroughly outside and wait - then have a clean courier carry everything in.

Talking with my mother, one of her local friends in her 70s got it and died of a stroke the same day they got the test back. This stroke thing seems more common lately.

My dad has it.

I got tested Monday and waiting on results. My mom, sister, and fiance same. Started with one of his employees by chance getting tested after having minor heat stroke beginning of last week. He got results positive this Monday, so they shut down the company and all of them got tested.

Now my dad got results positive. 3 other employees negative and waiting on all the rest of them along with my fiance and I.

Edit: first diagnosed employee now has been 9 days since swab test and absolutely no symptoms. He also is a smoker with a few health issues. Nobody else in company nor us including my dad have any symptoms.

It's also now been 14 days since first diagnosed was at work

Friend's wife is a nurse in UK, in her 40s and got it, recovering and plans to return to work soon. No breathing issues, but high fever, cough, lost sense of smell but again, no chest infection.

Family I know:
Father- tested negative, no symptoms as of today.
Mother- tested positive, headache and cough but no breathing issues
Daughter (10ish)- Fever and diarrhea. Little sore throat
Son- tested negative, no symptoms as of today
Son- tested negative, no symptoms as of today
Baby- didn't test, fever and diarrhea

The two connected to my teachng career are now both better but I would not wish their journey on anyone and heaven help them with the bills.

The first one had the large applause greeting when he left the hospital yesterday after FIVE weeks and much of it intubated. He has been told he has major reduced lung function. Perhaps forever, perhaps will heal But he walked out of the hospital "cured." Male in upper 40's.

The second is female 30. Was even on an ECMO and intubation. She was not expected to make it, but young and in good shape. Still in hospital, but off all machine support. Very weak and not firm prognosis on condition of heart and lungs longterm, but she is going to make it and prayers are continued that it will be a real recovery. She had kids to finish raising.

The one--husband of my childhood friend-- is still clinging to life. His is "cured" of Covid but the battle pretty much wiped out his essential functions of all sorts. Had a DNR already in place and is now finally in a wonderful hospice facility.. My friend will get to visit him once or twice a week because he has been classified as end stage in the dying process. Doctors thought he would not make it to Easter, but he is a tough old bird.

I know 3

The first two were an ex and her boyfriend. 40's and very healthy. Both recovered in ~10 days.

The other is a friends ex wife. Mid 60's, alcoholic & some other health/mental issues. She's been in the hospital for a couple weeks and it doesn't look good.

According to this thread, you'd think about 25% of the population has it. This is an awful lot of people on Texags who know multiple people. Sorry to hear all the bad stories

personally i know 100's of people and only know 2 confirmed cases so call that 1% , one of the cases is family who live in NYC Where the covid is prevalent. Personally i would think it to be about 3% have had it given the large number of asymptomatic people. The MLB antibody test came in at 1% but that data is at least a couple of weeks old.

I mean I guess that's true. It really comes down to percentages. Everyone knows hundreds of people so it would naturally mean most know a couple who have it.

But this is also just confirmed cases. Which is what I found so shocking. I just wonder how many of us know people who have/had it and will never even realize.