If that's the case, the "essential" workers would have gotten the virus in groves, and they have not.It's going to get real interesting alright. You can bet your bottom dollar there are going to be second waves in different parts of the state that will be worse than what we have seen already. I've seen far more people out in public not wearing a mask than what I've seen wearing one. I hope the hospitals are ready.
It's not just the elderly who are vulnerable to the virus as many others have died who have respiratory, cardio, and other conditions that reduce their immunity system.Again, if you look at age for Paulding deaths. We should protect our elderly. 100% quarantine them. No leaving their home. Leave groceries on their porch, not have them out and about, but everyone else get back to work and life with the new social distancing.
Thousands of health care workers sickened by COVID-19 and 27 dead, CDC report saysIf that's the case, the "essential" workers would have gotten the virus in groves, and they have not.
It's time to move on. Let freedom ring.
Of course some have, and the virus is going to continue to spread if only by "essential" workers regardless of whether or not society is re-opened today, tomorrow, next week, or next month.
I should have also emphasised that those with compromised immune systems or underlying health conditions should also quarantine just like the 65 and over crowd.It's not just the elderly who are vulnerable to the virus as many others have died who have respiratory, cardio, and other conditions that reduce their immunity system.
Seems like she should have had to inform you guys that she was still contagious.This is a long one....
I had a guest check in to my hotel for 14 days. The State of California Health Care Workers ( Sacramento) showed up as the one paying for the room.
When I spoke with her in the morning when she came down to get her To Go Breakfast... I asked what brought her to San Diego? The way the reservation was made it looked like she was from Sacramento... we though she was working for the state.
She informed me she had just gotten out of the hospital with Covid. She did not want to take the chance of infecting her family, so she was quarantining. (At my hotel! ...taking the chance of infecting us!!!!!! peachy!!!) Her family was also quarantining at her home since they had been exposed by her.
Back story is that she is a social worker at a nursing facility in North San Diego County. I said I thought no one was allowed to visit or go into the facility except the staff, how did it get into the facility? She said, "That was true, but the population goes to the hospital, goes out for dialysis and other medical appointments so they are exposed at the hospitals and bring it back.
Intrigued to speak with someone who had actually had it, I took the opportunity to learn more.
I asked how she knew she had it, what were her first symptoms? She said first she got a bad headache, then the dry cough. Then the fever started. As it progressed it got very hard to breath, and she became very weak. She was never on a ventilator, so she had a milder case, but was hospitalized, so it was serious.
I said that I had heard someone say they were so tired it was hard to even chew food to eat, that it was too much effort. She said yes... absolutely no energy to do anything but try to breath, and she lost all smell and taste around the time the fever started. She said each day now she is getting stronger and feels better. She said she still has a cough, but they put her on albuterol and a strong cough suppressant. While we were speaking she did not cough. She had on a mask and so did I.
Ironically we are closing the hotel to tent for termites, so we had to ask the organization that booked her 14 day stay to move her to another hotel. (We found severe termite damage to the ends of the building while renovating. My owner had just committed to tenting instead of heat treating the rooms. Since we have so few guests, this is the best time to make sure the whole building is treated, not just the 8 rooms where we know there is damage.)
When I spoke to the booking organization, they said well she is probably at work, they were not sure they could reach her. I said, "No I she is still in the hotel." Like me, they thought they were booking a healthcare worker who was visiting from Sacramento to help at the hospitals... not and active covid patient.
So many thoughts about this:
We were not informed she was still considered contagious.
Since she is still considered contagious, she should have had us take her To Go Breakfast and put it outside her door so she was not it the elevator and common areas where other unsuspecting staff and guests were.
We have not been set up as a Covid hotel and have no special gear to put on to clean or service a covid room ( with light cleaning, removing trash, resupplying towels and amenities daily.) The protocol other hotels use is this "light touch cleaning" daily, and on the 4th day sheets are taken to the room with a large extra trash bag, the guest would change the sheets and put the used sheets in the plastic bag. The bag of dirty sheets is placed outside the door in the hall for hotel staff to recover and wash.
If this is how it is going all over the nation, we will never stop the spread, because they simply booked her in a hotel close to her home... not a hotel specifically set up to take quarantining patients. The State booking company, did not know she was an infected Healthcare Employee, they just knew she was a Healthcare Worker. (Not sure they can be informed of her covid status due to HIPPA laws to be honest.)
We do not have the Personal Protective supplies to wear to be in a room where there are active covid virus germs... (in California, only hospital staff are allowed the N95 masks, so that the general population will not hoard and cause more shortage of PPE for our first responders and hospital staff.)
She checked out around 10AM. That room will have to just sit dirty a month or so. I am not having any staff go in there. We had upgraded her to a mini suit since it was a 14 day stay... now I have lost that premium room.
Yeah... I need to learn more before we do anything - I will be reading all I can. I have lysol as well as other sanitizing chemicals. After three weeks I think I will go spray the room and let it sit a week. I'm thinking at the end of the day (in a month or so,) I will go strip the room, then I will use another bathroom and strip down and shower right after, then throw my clothes in the heavy duty washer at the hotel.Wow, I'm sure that's very unsettling. Unfortunately that's probably the reality of what's happening all over the country. The only positive I take from it is that nobody has contracted it from the guest, at least I pray that's the case. Now the decision has to be made for when and who will be responsible for cleaning the room as well as when it will be safe to offer the room to future guests, not to mention a thorough cleaning of all common areas. The big question is whether or not to inform current and future guests of the situation.
I think it's fair to say that millions have unknowingly been exposed to the virus by a person with an active case. Those unknowingly exposed go through their day to day activities oblivious to the exposure all while taking necessary steps to meet their personal risk tolerance. Understandable that quickly changes when knowledge of exposure is gained.
Praying for you and everyone at risk.
I thought so too. As a health professional, I don't see the way this was done as very professional. In fact, she was deceptive when my front desk agent checked her in who asked her about her stay with us. She said she worked in a nursing care facility, that she was there due to work. She left out that small nagging fact that she was who we all are trying to avoid. So my FD agent did not know until the next day she had been exposed. (We do have 6 feet of space with a table keeping them away. We have pens out with sterilized in one jar, and a bin to put the used ones in to be sterilized. We wear masks.Seems like she should have had to inform you guys that she was still contagious.
There are conflicting articles... as I said, I need to read more from the CDC authorities.The virus can only survive up to a few days max on surfaces, right?
Having said that....I'm a long way from that hotel room.
I've been trying to tell people...if we don't get back to some normalcy soon, more people gonna die from the cure than the disease. Besides the boredom and people getting on each other's nerves; once businesses start failing, the heart attacks and suicides will skyrocket.And here is another victim of the virus, a man shoots and kills his step-son after an argument over shelterIng in place. There will be many more similar ones soon so I hope they’re also being counted and charted.
Man arrested after shooting, killing his 16-year-old stepson during quarantine fight, police say
A man shot and killed his 16-year-old stepson during a fight at their home.www.wsbtv.com