Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

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6/23/20 -Texas Reports All-Time Daily High: 5,489 New COVID-19 Cases. Houston hospital ICU's full.. Texas Chrildrens hospital will now admit adults. Change in tone from Governor Abbott --who's high risk for catching virus himself

Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home"

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As Texas sees its highest numbers of positive tests and hospitalizations, Gov. Greg Abbott advised residents of the state to stay at home.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-23-20-intl/index.html

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"The hospitalization rate is at an all-time high," he said. "The coronavirus is serious. It's spreading in Brazos County, across the entire state of Texas."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/23/882504575/5-489-new-covid-19-cases-texas-reports-new-all-time-daily-high

Hope my Texas colleagues have enough PPE!

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2 hours ago, OinksNemisis said:

I have mixed thoughts as I don't think that unadulterated poppycock should be left uncontested... but on the other hand, it would be so nice if the poster of was not left unrestrained to continue the daily dumpings which are in direct contrast to all medical evidence and with millions of lives and hospital systems solvency on the line...

I'm with ya and I'm pretty sure I just learned how to block a user...so hopefully that will help me stop responding to nonsense posts.

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I sometimes check this site. I always see the title. I always thought outdoors social distancing is better than locking myself in my home.

I much prefer exercising in the outdoors. (Social distancing)

I wish media, Dr, government won’t just preach stay home and mask up. What about eat right. Exercise. Nature is magnificent.

Sorry. Just what comes in mind when I hear stay at home.

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36 minutes ago, BostonFNP said:

"The mRNA-1273 vaccine induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified."

Jackson LA, Anderson EJ, Rouphael NG, et al. An mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — preliminary report. N Engl J Med. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2022483.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483

That’s super encouraging. From my limited understanding of the results, if T cell mediated immunity is what we are after, their results would indicate the need for high dose boosters. The lower doses only resulted in Th1 cytokines and CD8 T cells didn’t start to show up until he second dose in the 100-μg group.

‘Still, hope!

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4 minutes ago, askater112 said:

I sometimes check this site. I always see the title. I always thought outdoors social distancing is better than locking myself in my home.

I much prefer exercising in the outdoors. (Social distancing)

I wish media, Dr, government won’t just preach stay home and mask up. What about eat right. Exercise. Nature is magnificent.

Sorry. Just what comes in mind when I hear stay at home.

There is no problem with being outdoors and exercising. I ride my bike 100+ miles a week for exercise. I've stopped doing group training rides and racing.

Eating healthy and exercising is vital to our health but it is not mutually exclusive with basic infection control requirements.

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Looks like deaths are up in Houston TX area.
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29 minutes ago, NRSKarenRN said:
Looks like deaths are up in Houston TX area.

Not undercutting the significance of the deaths, but that was a special edition obituary highlighting the deaths from the entire year. Read in the comments on the Twitter post.

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7 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It is not clear at all that the poster you are engaging is actually a health professional. The thinking and statements seem inconsistent with college education in the sciences and more consistent with a political agenda. I believe that it's best to deprive such accounts of the attention and disruption they seek. The moderators will step in when the reaction to the lack of attention violates TOS.

I have wondered about this myself. Anyone can say they're an RN here, there is no verification process, is there?

I am reluctant to believe some posters here are nurses at all.

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5 hours ago, damiorifice said:

I don’t have one yet. I’m just a very socially awkward polymath who intends on starting a demsn in 2021. I read.... A LOT. And I had a desperately ill child and my own severe disability that forced me to bury my face in a lot of medical texts. I love learning. I find discussions like this thread invigorating and that they force me to learn new things.

My university education is actually in Religion.

No, no, no, oh dear Jesus no. Doesn’t that drug carry a small risk of a major reaction like methylprednisolone? What happens if you give it to someone and they go into anaphylactic shock like I did taking solumedrol? Dear Lord!

I came on this site before I took my first prereq for nursing. It was very useful ever step of my journey, and I've been a nurse for 6.5 years now! Welcome to ALLNURSES!!

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28 minutes ago, lifelearningrn said:

I came on this site before I took my first prereq for nursing. It was very useful ever step of my journey, and I've been a nurse for 6.5 years now! Welcome to ALLNURSES!!

The site is great. I’ve learned a ton! Thanks for being so welcoming. It’s a refreshing thing to see in society, especially online.

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On 7/8/2020 at 10:02 AM, damiorifice said:

Not to be the devil’s advocate, but not everyone views death and suffering the same way. He certainly could hold the opinions he has and still have seen how the virus makes mince meat of the vulnerable.

I was deathly ill with COVID for 30+ days and probably should have been hospitalized; if it weren’t for my cpap machine at home that I began using 24/7 to get my skin to go back to normal I’d probably be dead now. I have severe asthma and broncheactasis. Now I’m on powerful medication for asthma/COPD just to function. I don’t think I’ve ever been more scared that I was about to check out in my life. That doesn’t stop me from feeling exactly like @A Hit With The Ladies feels vis-à-vis liberties and the futility of lockdown, or the acceptability of the deaths that are occurring when weighed against the impact this debacle of lockdowns, etc. has caused.

The ignore function is awesome. I used it for a member and it is great.

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2 hours ago, forgivenfaith119 said:

The ignore function is awesome. I used it for a member and it is great.

How do I use that feature?? I'm done with the those that refuse to look at this disease from a medical and scientific perspective. This is a nursing site, not facebook. It shouldn't be political.

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