re: Covid-19 in Georgia: The Second Wave

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I was just curious. I didn't know Piedmont was that big.

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I would argue they aren't big enough for that responsibility, for sure. Particularly in times like this where resources and staff are strained. What I read this morning is that from the border with South Carolina along a line that stretches down through Athens and into middle Georgia, there were a total of 6 critical care beds available as of Friday. I assume that has likely changed already.

Why would they need her to come back in, even if the results were legit? Story is confusing.

As Deeprig wrote, a positive test result wouldn't necessitate revisiting the hospital.

When they couldn't test your cousin she was told that she would have to come back. She got a call to come back. I think there was simply a misunderstanding by someone somewhere along the line.

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I've got a cousin once removed who had a playdate. The girl she had playdate with happened to be exposed to a positive tested individual the day before.

So my cousin went to DeKalb General (emory) to get tested for covid 19. After waiting a while,the hospital said that they couldnt see her that day and that she would need to come back.
Instead, her parents took her to a clinic and got tested.

The clinic results were negative.
But the day after the clinic results, they received a phone call from DeKalb saying that she tested positive and needs to come back in.

I have no clue what is going on.
It is BS. I'm guessing some sort of fraud (if not another honest mistake). Heads need to roll for this kind of crap.

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A lot of folks also believe that Jesus' mama was a virgin....folks will believe anything if they want to bad enough...

Most likely the hospital saw that she had come in to be tested for COVID and there was no test result so they called and told her she needed to be tested again. I had this happen to me a few years ago with PSA blood test....something by the way you need to get done if you are over 40, especially if there is a history of prostate cancer in the family....anyway they drew blood and I waited on the results. I finally called the doctor and was told I needed to see the urologist because the test came back and indicated a problem...they never said cancer, just a problem. I thought I had the cancer though....fun few weeks. Anyway I go to the doctor and he gets the file and lo and behold he tells me it looks like I might have prostate cancer....it runs in the family so it wasn't overly troubling and knowing it is very treatable if caught in the early stages (not really treatable because all of the treatments are usually far worse than the disease, especially if you are young and otherwise healthy "down there" but manageable...if you live long enough it almost always recurs even with radical surgery but even then it is very manageable and is not a death sentence). Amyway he starts talking about doing a biopsy and explaining the procedure. Never mentioned a number....having some experience with PSA exams from dealing with my Dad I ask him what the PSA level was...and he starts fumbling through the file and can't find it....but says he remembered my name being on the list of his patients with an elevated PSA and the results were just missing from the file...and he would find them. He called the nurse and she told us that they never got the results....the lab had notified them that the test wasn't done because something happened to the sample and it wasn't viable....probably dropped it or something, who knows....anyway all the doctor knew was that the lad told his office there was a problem....and somehow the message that the sample was simply not viable never made it to them....so they were fully prepared to do a biopsy and I would have probably had it done had I not known to ask what the level was.....I would bet that the girl was on the list to be tested, they saw they had no results, someone told someone else to contact the patient and tell them they needed to be retested, that someone called and told them she needed to be tested because she tested positive.

Why would they call her back if she was positive though? I know 7 people who have tested positive and they were told to stay in isolation and away from the doctors office or hospital unless their symptons got bad and they needed attention. None of the 7 had much more than a cold....2 of them are in their 60's and overweight, one is in her late 90's but otherwise healthy....I don't think they would have called her back to the providers office unless she had some serious symptoms that needed to be addressed....

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You should change your name to Tldrdawg.

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You win, dude. No more internet for today. :lol:

Finally some good news. As of today, the 7-day moving average of daily new hospitalizations is lower than this point last week, something that hasn't happened since June 12.

It's been almost 2 months with week over week increases of daily new hospitalizations and it looks like it may have finally peaked in GA.

Still, daily new hospitalizations are still about 50% higher than their previous peak in April.

You're an old man with shitty lungs from decades of substance abuse, you should be worried.

On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence of diminished brain capacity

If smoking weed caused lung damage Bolt and Phelps would never have been able to outperform all other Earthlings.

Cannabis might actually be protective against COVID-19. Cannabis May Reduce Deadly COVID-19 Lung Inflammation: Researchers Explain Why