Optimus Health Care medical assistant Dolimar Rivera, from downtown, and Cassandra Rodrigues, left, administered a COVID-1 check at mount Aery Baptist Church outdoor cell verification site in Bridgeport last month.
Optimus Health Care Medical Assistant Dolimar Rivera downtown and Cassandra Rodrigues, on the left, administer a COVID-1 check at the Mount Aery Baptist Church outdoor cell verification site,
Optimus Health Care medical assistant Dolimar Rivera, from downtown, and Cassandra Rodrigues, left, administered a COVID-1 check at mount Aery Baptist Church outdoor cell verification site in Bridgeport last month.
Optimus Health Care Medical Assistant Dolimar Rivera downtown and Cassandra Rodrigues, on the left, administer a COVID-1 check at the Mount Aery Baptist Church outdoor cell verification site,
In Connecticut, we saw the tidal wave COVID-1 nine in New York. We’ve prepared. And then came the patients, first like the drizzle before the hurricane that followed. As an infectious disease specialist, I took over our first COVID-1nine, intubated and lying patient intensive care unit. We tried several therapies, but my patient and his wife, well cared for, died.
At Yale New Haven Health, we receive treatment from more than 3,700 COVID patients, or more than 3, one hundred patients. For months, I have treated patients, trained many doctors and feared for the lives of my friends and family. Finally, we can also breathe again, of course, masks. We had weathered the storm. Today, Connecticut has 67 patients hospitalized with COVID.
Now, physical care staff in other america are in the same emotional desperation. They’re at the breaking point, the hospitals are full to the brim. It’s like déja vu. It can be prevented. To date, more than 3 million Americans have contracted COVID-1 and more than 136,000 have died. Prioritizing a complete reopening of the economy, adding overcrowded indoor facilities, has inadvertently fueled the death care industry.
By following clinical principles while opening up the local economy in a graduate friend approach, we may be able to control this pandemic at the national point and return to a new “normal” life. But the virus will delay the closure of states where COVID-1nine is endemic.
When the pandemic first hit the region of the 3 states, governments. Cuomo, Lamont and Murphy painted combinatorily directly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Citizens of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey have reduced the specific reproductive rate, or Rt, the average variety of other Americans inflamed with an individual with the virus. Hospitalizations and deaths have stabilized. These states did not have the same reopening plans, however, all 3 continue to paint in combination, recently to introduce 14-day quarantine orders for travelers from states with h8 coronavirus rates. As a result, our other Americans enjoy a summer look safely.
Rt below 1.0 suggests that the COVID-1nine transfer rate is low. When Rt is above 1.0, COVID quickly ranked ads. Rt in Connecticut well below 1.0 for 47 days before reopening. Since the reopening of Connecticut, Rt has increased, but has remained below 1.0. In Arizona, Rt above 1.0 and expanding in reopening. In Florida and Texas, Rt slightly below 1.0, expanding and expanding further after reopening. It is never very unforeseen that COVID has spread like a wildfire.
With a weak Rt, Connecticut schools now have the opportunity to plan classroom instruction this fall. With a pandemic unleashed on large numbers of America’s apples, direct-to-face learning is impossible. Some summer schools tried to open, but were forced to approach as the virus raged. All the land won with the orders of the house was lost with the first reopenings of the state. This experiment failed. Heat and humidity didn’t kill the virus this summer. In large quantities of apples in the country, the virus is spreading. The states of greater New York have played the game for a long time, suffering the first economic successes they revel in helping long-term health, economy and schooling.
The lockdown in Wuhan, China, drove Rt down from almost 4.0 to 0.3. Six months into this pandemic, we know what works – early recognition of coronavirus circulation, timely lockdown, masks and distancing, widespread testing, contact tracing, economic stimulus, and consistent public messaging. Our six-month experiment across the world reveals who has done well and who hasn’t.
Undoubtedly, a large apple in the northeast is affected by COVID fatigue and is tired of social estrangement and dressed in masks. The beaches, pools and house parties are filled with other Unmasked Americans, the occasional best friend with distance from each other, but the uncontinist best friend. We break this habit because Rt is weak. If we don’t seem to be careful, let’s have trouble before the school year is born, especially friends with other Americans returning from other states.
It is painful as a doctor and as an American to see patients and hospital staff suffer across the country. I worked for two consecutive months, hoping to save other Americans in Connecticut, to see the tsunami of cases, hospitalizations and deaths that affect us. A vaccine, a panacea. We cannot mass produce personal physical care. We save time until we receive more effective therapies. My recipe is simple: pass Rt, then open slowly.
We can save lives. We were able to pandemic here in our little corner of America. So can anything else in the rustic world and the world.
Dr. Manisha Juthani is an associate professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Infectious Diseases Scholarship Program and Infectious Disease Physician at Yale Medical Clinical Practice in New Haven.