This is why managing a pandemic by way of the honor system is a Really Bad Idea

[Nurse and Spy]

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New Hampshire's first coronavirus patient, a hospital employee, went to an event tied to Dartmouth business school on Friday despite being told to stay isolated, officials say, and all others who went to the event are now being told to stay isolated.

NH's 1st Coronavirus Patient, Told to Stay Isolated, Went to Event Instead

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Is containment even realistic?

[toomuchbaloney]

7 hours ago, CrunchRN said:

Is containment even realistic?

I don't think so...

[Nascar nurse, ASN, RN]

20 hours ago, CrunchRN said:

Is containment even realistic?

Yes, I’m questioning as this progresses how we’re ever going to isolate so many ppl for 14 days. It’s just not possible to shut down a nation for 2 weeks.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

1 hour ago, Nascar nurse said:

It’s just not possible to shut down a nation for 2 weeks.

Italy is trying.

Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread

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Italy took a page from China’s playbook Sunday, locking down around 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe.

https://apnews.com/f3be69cc2cf55f74a35118c557ad8461

[HandsOffMySteth]

The CDC has been working on protocols for biological pandemic for years. I think they are using this scenario to test some of their working theories. Realistically they can't stop this in my opinion.

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

I understand your feelings but it is probably not possible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this idiot is the cause of anyone else's illness.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

6 hours ago, Kooky Korky said:

I understand your feelings but it is probably not possible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this idiot is the cause of anyone else's illness.

You're correct, but the idiot sure didn't help, and put many at risk, if not being a direct cause

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

15 hours ago, Rose_Queen said:

Italy is trying.

Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread

https://apnews.com/f3be69cc2cf55f74a35118c557ad8461

They are trying, but it appears to already be failing. Italy and Europe in general are very used to open borders and freedom of movement. China, being a communist country, is more poised to enforce this kind of thing I think. I don't see how realistically there is going to be any success with this. I was all over that area of Italy last year - makes me wonder what would have happened if we ourselves were there when this started. Would we be stuck in the country indefinitely?

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Live Free or Die, baby..that is the NH state motto...gah!

[toomuchbaloney]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/osha-rule-protect-healthcare-workers-coronavirus/

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Since the earliest days of the Trump administration, the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration has had a completed draft of workplace rules that were made for the very crisis we now find ourselves in, with the power to protect vulnerable healthcare workers from exposure to infectious diseases like COVID-19. According to the Washington Post, the draft regulation would require employers to provide healthcare workers with protective equipment and create plans to control the spread of infectious diseases, potentially including building isolation rooms for quarantining patients. The only problem is the administration doesn’t seem to have much interest in action.

Work on the proposal began years ago following the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2010 and continued throughout the Obama administration. But in Spring 2017 it was shelved as a “long term action,” part of a comprehensive deregulation scheme pushed by the president.

Gah