I don't know. It would not totally surprise me. OTOH, these are hospitals in/near the capital city of a smaller Southern state, so it may be that we had less of that going on.
My husband and I had had COVID earlier that month. The virus itself was mild, less than a typical flu. But my husband, who has several comorbidities, developed pneumonia about 10-12 days in and was hospitalized (neither of the hospitals the mother/son were in).
He got only one dose of remdesivir, best I can tell. They gave him steroids. They kept up the vitamin D and zinc we'd been doing at home. He was on a high-flow nasal cannula, never ventilated (praise God). I think it helped that the pulmonologist who first saw him in the ER was the one he goes to twice a year anyway, so there was an existing relationship. He spent six days in the hospital; we got him out on Thanksgiving Day.
I asked to stay with my husband on the COVID floor when he was admitted, and at first they said yes. Then they started making up excuses why I couldn't be with him. "You might get sick again." Repeat infections that close together were unheard of [before the COVID vaccine, anyway]. "You'd be endangering the nurses." How? I'm recovered, I feel well, and they're wearing full PPE. They never came up with any answers, just "no."
But it was perfectly fine for me to have spent 14 hours with my husband in the ER bay. I never put on a mask when the doctors and nurses came in (wearing surgical masks, not PPE), and no one complained.
Do you know if the mother/son that passed in separate hospitals were given the "hospital protocol"?
I don't know. It would not totally surprise me. OTOH, these are hospitals in/near the capital city of a smaller Southern state, so it may be that we had less of that going on.
My husband and I had had COVID earlier that month. The virus itself was mild, less than a typical flu. But my husband, who has several comorbidities, developed pneumonia about 10-12 days in and was hospitalized (neither of the hospitals the mother/son were in).
He got only one dose of remdesivir, best I can tell. They gave him steroids. They kept up the vitamin D and zinc we'd been doing at home. He was on a high-flow nasal cannula, never ventilated (praise God). I think it helped that the pulmonologist who first saw him in the ER was the one he goes to twice a year anyway, so there was an existing relationship. He spent six days in the hospital; we got him out on Thanksgiving Day.
I asked to stay with my husband on the COVID floor when he was admitted, and at first they said yes. Then they started making up excuses why I couldn't be with him. "You might get sick again." Repeat infections that close together were unheard of [before the COVID vaccine, anyway]. "You'd be endangering the nurses." How? I'm recovered, I feel well, and they're wearing full PPE. They never came up with any answers, just "no."
But it was perfectly fine for me to have spent 14 hours with my husband in the ER bay. I never put on a mask when the doctors and nurses came in (wearing surgical masks, not PPE), and no one complained.
Thank you.