And so that has implications for how you deal with the epidemic going forward. What they’re finding throughout the country in places like Santa Clara, California, University of Miami did a study in Miami-Dade, New York is doing this, is that the number of people with the antibodies far exceeds the number of people who’ve actually tested positive at a diagnostic test. That is testing that will determine whether somebody has the antibodies that would be associated with having had the disease. What you also need to have is serological testing, antibody testing. And so it is a part of it, but it’s not the entire part. That mean you can’t acquire the virus two days from now or three days from now. I’m finally pleased to be able to say testing has been a big part of what we’re doing, but diagnostic testing is not the whole thing. The hospital’s a safe place to be and taking care of yourself is very, very important. There’s really no chance of that because of how they’ve segregated the units, but it’s certainly important for people if you do have those. Sometimes that is because that they’re worried about being exposed to COVID. We have a, one of the biggest problems we’ve seen in the last six weeks is people that have heart problems or stroke symptoms deciding they don’t want to go to the hospital. I know we’re going to hear about how they treated, they really did a good thing here, and I’ll let them talk about kind of creating a separate containment unit. I know Jeff can talk a little bit about how they did it, how they’ve done. So I think that the community here has handled it well. If you look at the syndromatic indicators for Volusia, everything’s trended downward in terms of the admissions to the hospital. You did have the 46 with the prison on the 30th and then seven and seven, and the percent positive has pretty much been, in the last week to 10 days, in that 1.5 to 2% accepting the prison dump, when they had the prison stuff. But if you’ll look at April 24th, there were 10 new cases, then four cases, three, seven, three, four. It’s a separate issue from kind of how it’s going in the community I think. In terms of what happened here in Volusia County, I think if you look, if you go back the last a week to 10 days, you’ve had two times where there have been a significant, anything out of the ordinary with cases reported and those were both connected to the prison here. These are really important things for people’s health, and we want to make sure that people understand that this is something that they’re going to be able to schedule going forward. Some of the docs are going to talk about what all that means. But as we’ve gone through this, as hospitals have had more than enough capacity, there’s obviously a need to to bring that online. CDC had recommended about two months ago or certainly six, seven weeks ago that governors freeze ” elective procedures.” Part of the reason they wanted to do that was to make sure there was enough hospital space, which just from the data I thought that we would have that, but then they were also concerned about a lack of PPE, and at that time there was a real concern about that. … from some of the physicians about, one of the things with phase one is going to be quote unquote “elective procedures” returning to the hospitals.
0 kommentar(er)
