I kept a journal during the first few months of working the Covid screening lines outside the ER where I worked as a charge nurse. Here’s one of my entries.
I’ve had patients and colleagues test negative one day then positive the next then negative the next. Couple questions that brings to mind. Are these tests even accurate and are these…
I kept a journal during the first few months of working the Covid screening lines outside the ER where I worked as a charge nurse. Here’s one of my entries.
I’ve had patients and colleagues test negative one day then positive the next then negative the next. Couple questions that brings to mind. Are these tests even accurate and are these getting reported as positive cases when the same person’s had multiple tests run? I had multiple people come through that we swabbed many days in a row until they were negative. They needed a negative result to return to work usually. I’m sure each time they came through it counted towards the grand total. I had one guy tell me he had 4 positives at the time that I helped him. I also observed on multiple occasions and had to correct people on improper collection techniques. Usually the swab collectors are not nurses but CNA’s or the like. The nurses were the ones asking the screening questions and informing them that we will be only testing ONE person in the car and to assume everyone else in the car has it if the person being tested had it (Direction from the hospital and screening line coordinators). That’s extremely important. How many positives were missed because of this practice and how did that skew our numbers to make a difference. The more testing you do, the more positives you’re going to get. It’s just fishing with a bigger net. Commonly they were afraid to insert the swab to the proper depth in the nose. Also, There are stories that swabs not even exposed to a human were ran for quality control and some gave false positive results. I think we’re spending too much time on proving someone has it vs. if someone had it. It would be more valuable especially since I’ve heard zero talk about reinfection rates. If we go with the theory that January is the ground zero date then that means some (millions) people already have achieved an 8 month period without getting the virus again. And lets think about that one. It’s a virus. If viruses had cures we’d be giving antibiotics to all viral illnesses . Medical professionals know this is the worst plan of treatment as thats how viruses mutate and how the body eventually compromises its immunity. We have our hopes on an immunization that we assume will be the answer. It’s all fear driven. It’s reminiscent of the age of fallout shelters and gas masks. Look around. Check your hospitals. I know mine has cases but by no means are we overwhelmed. Available ICU beds and death rates are where it’s at if you want numbers to think about. And in those death rates consider age and how close some of these people were to dying to begin with. Not to say tragedy hasn’t happened to innocent players but this is not the majority. We also have a public website that gives the public real-time numbers of what’s going on in our hospitals. Don’t let fear steer your judgement. Also, take a look around your city and see what is going on just because some don’t want to support your President and do the right thing. Chicago, Portland, Seattle, New York... are being destroyed with damages that will take years to recover from the riots. The citizens need to say enough is enough. It’s pathetic. Sore losers. Gonna be interesting listening to them for another 4 years. God forbid we work together. So sad.
I kept a journal during the first few months of working the Covid screening lines outside the ER where I worked as a charge nurse. Here’s one of my entries.
I’ve had patients and colleagues test negative one day then positive the next then negative the next. Couple questions that brings to mind. Are these tests even accurate and are these getting reported as positive cases when the same person’s had multiple tests run? I had multiple people come through that we swabbed many days in a row until they were negative. They needed a negative result to return to work usually. I’m sure each time they came through it counted towards the grand total. I had one guy tell me he had 4 positives at the time that I helped him. I also observed on multiple occasions and had to correct people on improper collection techniques. Usually the swab collectors are not nurses but CNA’s or the like. The nurses were the ones asking the screening questions and informing them that we will be only testing ONE person in the car and to assume everyone else in the car has it if the person being tested had it (Direction from the hospital and screening line coordinators). That’s extremely important. How many positives were missed because of this practice and how did that skew our numbers to make a difference. The more testing you do, the more positives you’re going to get. It’s just fishing with a bigger net. Commonly they were afraid to insert the swab to the proper depth in the nose. Also, There are stories that swabs not even exposed to a human were ran for quality control and some gave false positive results. I think we’re spending too much time on proving someone has it vs. if someone had it. It would be more valuable especially since I’ve heard zero talk about reinfection rates. If we go with the theory that January is the ground zero date then that means some (millions) people already have achieved an 8 month period without getting the virus again. And lets think about that one. It’s a virus. If viruses had cures we’d be giving antibiotics to all viral illnesses . Medical professionals know this is the worst plan of treatment as thats how viruses mutate and how the body eventually compromises its immunity. We have our hopes on an immunization that we assume will be the answer. It’s all fear driven. It’s reminiscent of the age of fallout shelters and gas masks. Look around. Check your hospitals. I know mine has cases but by no means are we overwhelmed. Available ICU beds and death rates are where it’s at if you want numbers to think about. And in those death rates consider age and how close some of these people were to dying to begin with. Not to say tragedy hasn’t happened to innocent players but this is not the majority. We also have a public website that gives the public real-time numbers of what’s going on in our hospitals. Don’t let fear steer your judgement. Also, take a look around your city and see what is going on just because some don’t want to support your President and do the right thing. Chicago, Portland, Seattle, New York... are being destroyed with damages that will take years to recover from the riots. The citizens need to say enough is enough. It’s pathetic. Sore losers. Gonna be interesting listening to them for another 4 years. God forbid we work together. So sad.