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So my stepdad is in the hospital recovering from the surgery to remove the cancer. He is in the ICU, has COPD, CHF, and a suppressed immune system due to the radiation and chemo. The hospital has taken measures to try and keep COVID-19 from spreading around the hospital.
Limiting the hours you can visit (7:30 am to 6:30 pm) - Im not an expert on viruses, but this seems to be a pointless tactic. I am pretty sure that the virus doesnt give a **** what time of day it is. They really should be turning all visitors away, unless they are willing to wear a mask at all times, so that in case a person has it they are limiting the chances of spreading it.
Limiting the number of visitors at a time to 2 - another pointless tactic. The visiting hours are 11 hours long. Limiting the amount of people that can be in the room doesn't really do much, especially when there are 11 hours in which they can come visit. If 2 people visit for an hour, then that means 22 people could visit in just one day. I dont think most people even have that many people visit.
Screenings at the door - I think most people know that if they are feeling sick they shouldn't visit the hospital and since you can have no symptoms for up to 2 weeks and still pass this thing around the screenings may keep a couple people from visiting.
I told my mom that she really shouldnt even be visiting because a lot more people have this than what have been tested, so if youve been out going into stores the last few days theres a chance you've been exposed to it and dont even know it. I told her to wear a mask anytime shes in the room and shes very good about washing her hands, so im not too concerned.
One thing that does concern me however is the employees. Chances are fairly good that KC has a good amount of people with this thing and just don't have the symptoms yet. These nurses and other employees of the hospital go out around town on their days off and have probably been exposed as well and since it takes awhile for the symptoms to show up some of them could unknowingly have it and give it to a patient. I asked my mom if the nurses are wearing masks while in the room and she said no and that concerns the hell out of me.
The hospital is treating the coronavirus like it is less severe than the flu. Hell during flu season if you decline to get a flu shot they make you wear a mask either all the time or during the times you interact with patients to protect the patient, just because you didnt get a flu shot. Why are they not requiring workers to wear masks for this because there is no vaccine, you dont have to even have syptoms to spread this, and it's alot more contagious. It just infuriates me that they don't have more precautions there, especially in the ICU of all places. If my stepdad happened to get this then he more than likely would die from it.
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