If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

Lots of street people and drug users in NOLA. Not surprising. Fyi, I lived 8 years in nola.

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If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

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Exactly what I've been fearing in the deep south. Extreme obesity, virtually no preventative medicine, and millions uninsured. Perhaps rural populations can be spared from some of the brunt, but the US is not homogeneous like Japan, China, or South Korea. Huge disparities in care, access to care, nutrition, etc. This stuff hitting section 8 housing in urban areas could make us look 4th world. Been thinking about it for 2 weeks.

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If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

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Is that the true death rate? No way.

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Reveille said:

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If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

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Is that the true death rate? No way.

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Unfortunately, yes but let's hope that it drops soon.

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Reveille said:

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If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

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Is that the true death rate? No way.

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Unfortunately, yes but it's hope that drops soon.

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How could we possibly know how many total cases there are and have been? Sorry if that's a dumb question. So counting every single person with Covid in La (only God could know this right?) 2-3% of them are dying?

I don't see how we could begin to know the mortality rate there. Is it because I'm in real estate and not a doctor?

It is much worse then the numbers indicate. I intubated 4 pts today in the ER. 3 other pts who came in coding and didnt make it. I am one of 9 providers. Saw at least 18 with the clinical profile in my 10 hour shift. I estimate our ER is seeing at least 90 pts a day with it. Testing a small fraction of those due to restrictions.

Shoulder dislocation with no symptom. Xray shows bilateral pneumonia. Mva with chest and abdominal pain no uri symptoms. Ct showed bilateral pneumonia consistent with Covid 19. We are out of vents, out of icu beds, out of gowns for PPE, out of sterilizing wipes, out of hand sanitizer. We are on the brink of complete collapse of resources.

Prayers for the medical staff in New Orleans and other areas of Louisiana........

Holy crap. Hope you get the supplies you need ASAP.

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Lots of street people and drug users in NOLA. Not surprising. Fyi, I lived 8 years in nola.

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Are you trying to say "it can't happen here"?

You could try this to see if they have any

https://www.harborfreight.com/ppe-request.html?utm_source=Eric_letter_2020_03_22&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Eric_letter_2020_03_22&cid=mEmail_sEric_letter_2020_03_22&uid=6764ccaf81b0bcd1f0caeb200280944e59a2e370e9f648f7d555920a0ceeb348

I imagine New Orleans has more to do with Mardi Gras and the fact they kiss cheeks when greeting each other.

Hang in there nawlinsag.

Mardi Gras was probably one of the last large public events and with people traveling to attend Understandable how NOLA could become another hotspot

Nursing home was hit hard

6 deaths have occurred at one retirement home.

Praying for you. Praying that you get the supplies that you need!!!

So far, the great majority of Louisiana cases are in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. nola.com has a good interactive map for the spread:

Coronavirus Tracking Map

I'm not sure if the link will post to the next updated map, but you can go to nola.com and find a link to it at the top of the page.

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Reveille said:

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If you look at the numbers, the state of Louisana is rising rapidly and they have a mortality rate that is high at about 2.5% and 3.3% in New Orleans. Need to watch this as they are our neighbors. Time to start praying for them.

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Is that the true death rate? No way.

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Unfortunately, yes but it's hope that drops soon.

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How could we possibly know how many total cases there are and have been? Sorry if that's a dumb question. So counting every single person with Covid in La (only God could know this right?) 2-3% of them are dying?

I don't see how we could begin to know the mortality rate there. Is it because I'm in real estate and not a doctor?

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The implicit caveat is that it is the known death rate as of this point and that there will be many unknowns on both sides of the equation that make that number wrong. Someone smarter than me should be able to use all the global data known to date to use these preliminary numbers to derive an estimate of what the actual death rate is there now.

When was Fat Tuesday?

2 weeks ago right?

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It is much worse then the numbers indicate. I intubated 4 pts today in the ER. 3 other pts who came in coding and didnt make it. I am one of 9 providers. Saw at least 18 with the clinical profile in my 10 hour shift. I estimate our ER is seeing at least 90 pts a day with it. Testing a small fraction of those due to restrictions.

Shoulder dislocation with no symptom. Xray shows bilateral pneumonia. Mva with chest and abdominal pain no uri symptoms. Ct showed bilateral pneumonia consistent with Covid 19. We are out of vents, out of icu beds, out of gowns for PPE, out of sterilizing wipes, out of hand sanitizer. We are on the brink of complete collapse of resources.

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Thank you for your hard work. I imagine it must be scary to work in what feels like an exposed environment, especially if you go home to a family at the end of the day.

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When was Fat Tuesday?

2 weeks ago right?

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It was Feb 25

Wife and kids are with her parents in a rural part of Hattiesburg. I am being banished to an air mattress in an empty condo when our renter moves out at the end of the month.

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It is much worse then the numbers indicate. I intubated 4 pts today in the ER. 3 other pts who came in coding and didnt make it. I am one of 9 providers. Saw at least 18 with the clinical profile in my 10 hour shift. I estimate our ER is seeing at least 90 pts a day with it. Testing a small fraction of those due to restrictions.

Shoulder dislocation with no symptom. Xray shows bilateral pneumonia. Mva with chest and abdominal pain no uri symptoms. Ct showed bilateral pneumonia consistent with Covid 19. We are out of vents, out of icu beds, out of gowns for PPE, out of sterilizing wipes, out of hand sanitizer. We are on the brink of complete collapse of resources.

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Which hospital? I was born at Ochsner in Jefferson, praying for y'all down there.

I was back in Nola at the end of January, can only imagine the level of community spread that occurred during Mardi Gras and in the weeks after down in the Quarter. Has the city officially shut everything down?

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It is much worse then the numbers indicate. I intubated 4 pts today in the ER. 3 other pts who came in coding and didnt make it. I am one of 9 providers. Saw at least 18 with the clinical profile in my 10 hour shift. I estimate our ER is seeing at least 90 pts a day with it. Testing a small fraction of those due to restrictions.

Shoulder dislocation with no symptom. Xray shows bilateral pneumonia. Mva with chest and abdominal pain no uri symptoms. Ct showed bilateral pneumonia consistent with Covid 19. We are out of vents, out of icu beds, out of gowns for PPE, out of sterilizing wipes, out of hand sanitizer. We are on the brink of complete collapse of resources.

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I am terribly sorry for what you're going through on the front lines of this thing.

For everyone else this is precisely why we're "destroying our economy" in an effort to flatten the curve. Left unchecked all hospitals would look like this one in relatively short order.

NOLA even outside of Mardi Gras is still a very public society.

Speaking as someone who is not of the "Party Now for Tomorrow You May Be Dead" scene.
Interesting that LA cases are rising now, approximately fits the incubation period for Wuhan Virus.
Mardi Gras to now.
Hum--m-m-m-m!

PS: I usually write before reading all the texts of the subject.

New Orleans is almost certainly where my dad got it. They were there Wed-Fri last week. THey were supposed to stay until Sunday but bugged out early. He is on day 4 now of feeling like dog*****

Are y'all treating with the magic Hydroxychloroquin/Zpac combo?

nawlinsag - what part of town do you live in?

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It is much worse then the numbers indicate. I intubated 4 pts today in the ER. 3 other pts who came in coding and didnt make it. I am one of 9 providers. Saw at least 18 with the clinical profile in my 10 hour shift. I estimate our ER is seeing at least 90 pts a day with it. Testing a small fraction of those due to restrictions.

Shoulder dislocation with no symptom. Xray shows bilateral pneumonia. Mva with chest and abdominal pain no uri symptoms. Ct showed bilateral pneumonia consistent with Covid 19. We are out of vents, out of icu beds, out of gowns for PPE, out of sterilizing wipes, out of hand sanitizer. We are on the brink of complete collapse of resources.

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Damn that is rough. Stay safe and try to get adequate sleep.

I live in Algiers -English Turn. But I guess soon back into my bachelor pad condo in the wharehouse district.

Haven't worked at the Main Campus on Jeff Hwy since 2006 but am at an Ochsner Facility today. This one is fairing a bit better. They have gowns and I got a new mask instead of the one I used the past 5 days. Still appears to be all covid 19 but not as sick.

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When was Fat Tuesday?

2 weeks ago right?

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It was Feb 25

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Yeah I'm an idiot. Wish it was February again though.