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curious2garden

curious2garden

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BarnBuster said:
perhaps @curious2garden could talk about this. I found these 2 articles, one from the Ohio Dept of Health and the other from a Texas hospital CEO

"said he had read that between shift breaks and staffing changes, treating a single COVID-19 patient might require as many as 40 masks per day"

"DOH reports taking care of a patient who is in intensive care for a 24-hour shift requires:
  • 36 pairs of gloves
  • 14 gowns
  • 3 pairs of goggles
  • 13 N-95 face masks"
I had no idea health care would go thru that much PPE. I can see why there are shortages. :neutral:
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Hey Barn,
Essentially it's not just nurses and doctors but any healthcare professional that enters an isolation room has to suit up. So you have MDs (the hospitalist, the pulmonologist and any other specialist for a daily visit), three shifts of RNs plus their break relief, all paraprofessionals such as respiratory therapy on three shifts to take care of the ventilator, Xray techs for at least daily chest Xrays, phlebotomists for daily or more blood draws, housekeeping to do the necessary clean up.

Then if you require biomedical for a problem with wall suction or oxygen lines etc..... So I'd say their numbers were conservative.
 
curious2garden

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DCcan said:
That's a very minimal list, like once an hour checks for three shifts with no complications or visitors.
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Visitors, oh my, during a pandemic, that takes me straight back to my time on a burn until trying to suit up visitors. Then trying to convince them they couldn't touch the person in the bed etc.... At least in surgery we had a no visitors policy.

I'm struggling with trying to teach my husband the basics of aseptic technique. It isn't going well. He does much better with giant airplanes he can actually see then an invisible threat.
 
Singlemalt

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Blame it on somebody else?

Isn't that the new American way? Lol.

I miss the "ask not what your country can do for you" and "the buck stops here" days myself. That mentality has sadly been gone for decades.

It was nice when we had three networks that reported the exact same news too, also gone for decades.
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The adults left the building a long while back
 
cannabineer

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raratt said:
The Titan II's I worked on had a single 10 MT payload on them, from what I was told.
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9 was the figure I remember for the W-53.

When I visited the Titan Museum twenty years ago, they had a blank of its reentry body on static display, conveniently horizontal. Someone loaned me a Stetson and I mounted the hull and slapped it with the hat. I don’t have a copy of the photo.

YEEEEEEhawww

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raratt

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cannabineer said:
9 was the figure I remember for the W-53.

When I visited the Titan Museum twenty years ago, they had a static display of its reentry body on static display, conveniently horizontal. Someone loaned me a Stetson and I mounted the hull and slapped it with the hat. I don’t have a copy of the photo.

YEEEEEEhawww

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The ablative shield was made by GE, you know "We bring good things to life" lol.
 
tyler.durden

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cannabineer said:
The big thing is that the graph is constrained by how many have been tested. Once pretty much everyone has been tested, the curve will likely be much higher, but possibly flatter. I wager the actual count of Americans who have or had this is in the millions.
I’m taking this quarantine pretty seriously. For all I know, I could be a silent spreader. I’m operating off the assumption that I am. I do not want infecting someone on my conscience.
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This ^^. I know that I'm super contagious right now, and I'm continuing with the same stringent hygiene practices I adopted before I caught the virus. I don't want anyone to get it from me. The only thing that I don't really have to worry about is the incoming - Amazon packages, mail, groceries. No need to spray those down any longer. I still sanitize my cash, because I will eventually putting that back into circulation...
 
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