https://sum-dk.translate.goog/nyhed...&_x_tr_pto=wapp posted:

The government is ready to enter into partnerships with India and the Philippines for the recruitment of health professionals
In order to ensure sufficient manpower in the healthcare system and care for the elderly, the government will explore the possibilities of entering into agreements with, among others, India and the Philippines on targeted training and recruitment of health professionals.

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2024/01/10/covid-flu-allergies-rsv-north-texas-rates posted:

COVID, flu and allergies on the rise in North Texas

Pingui posted:

Guys, Bob says we've entered the red zone!
https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1744397254113562642
*casually removes mask to munch down on hors d'oeuvres at the gently caress'n'suck*

Pingui posted:

I have previously highlighted that the current COVID churn of healthcare personnel isn't sustainable a number and here's a bit of news from . It is worth noting that this press release from the Ministry of the Interior and Health indicate that the predatory brain drain phase is coming up short (which is unsurprising, if I recall correct the Philippines have a shortage of nurses in the quarter million range and India has similar issues, though I don't know offhand how steep):

This is not the first time I've heard of this model, to an extent where I would call it a generic model in the EU, as it is seemingly normalized in Germany (and the UK).

Cool Ghost posted:

I have a question about respirators: does anyone have experience with the MSA P100 filter cartridges with splash guards?

I'm worried about filters getting ruined by weather, so I picked some of the splash guard filters up, but I can't get a good seal check out of them. If I use the regular P100 cartridges, I get fine seal checks with my MSA Advantage 900 and 420 facepieces. So I'm not sure if it's the finicky design of the other cartridges, or if they add enough weight to mess with the seal. If anyone does have experience/advice, I'd appreciate it.

fosborb posted:

thinking about updating the op with hidrb.com as a telemedicine treatment source. $15, no video chat, but a lot more uploading pictures of tests, your license, etc to verify things.

and importantly they put in my prescription for Paxlovid without trying to make me take ivermectin, lavender extract and vitamin C, OR antibiotics

anybody have negative experiences with Dr B? can't remember why we removed it....

2fat4sex posted:

You might not be pressing the button on the filters hard enough to close the filter - the seal check buttons are very stiff, especially on ones fresh out of the bag. They'll loosen up as you perform more seal checks.

As to their performance, I've been using the 900 as my daily driver with splash guard p100s for the past two years now, wearing it even in heavy rain without the filters becoming compromised. As far as I'm aware I haven't caught the virus in that time.

fosborb posted:

thinking about updating the op with hidrb.com as a telemedicine treatment source. $15, no video chat, but a lot more uploading pictures of tests, your license, etc to verify things.

and importantly they put in my prescription for Paxlovid without trying to make me take ivermectin, lavender extract and vitamin C, OR antibiotics

anybody have negative experiences with Dr B? can't remember why we removed it....

Cool Ghost posted:

I have a question about respirators: does anyone have experience with the MSA P100 filter cartridges with splash guards?

I'm worried about filters getting ruined by weather, so I picked some of the splash guard filters up, but I can't get a good seal check out of them. If I use the regular P100 cartridges, I get fine seal checks with my MSA Advantage 900 and 420 facepieces. So I'm not sure if it's the finicky design of the other cartridges, or if they add enough weight to mess with the seal. If anyone does have experience/advice, I'd appreciate it.

fosborb posted:

thinking about updating the op with hidrb.com as a telemedicine treatment source. $15, no video chat, but a lot more uploading pictures of tests, your license, etc to verify things.

and importantly they put in my prescription for Paxlovid without trying to make me take ivermectin, lavender extract and vitamin C, OR antibiotics

anybody have negative experiences with Dr B? can't remember why we removed it....

Pingui posted:

Guys, Bob says we've entered the red zone!
https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1744397254113562642
*casually removes mask to munch down on hors d'oeuvres at the gently caress'n'suck*

RandomBlue posted:

where are the hospitalizations???

Zugzwang posted:

Hospitalizations are going way up but deaths are lagging, it's fine y'all

Pulvis Sumus posted:

A meeting with my team and another team from a vendor we have been working with was canceled today because the vendor's team all traveled internationally for a work event and everyone got COVID in the middle of the trip. My team has 3 out of 5 people also out with COVID and it has been a non-stop parade of people getting sick for a while now. One of the dudes on my team mentioned he'd gone to the gym to see if he could "exercise the sickness and away" and "tried not to cough on any of the machinery." Our CEO just sent out an email that he's recovering from "some sort of nasty virus" but expects to be back in the office soon. RIP.

Pulvis Sumus posted:

One of the dudes on my team mentioned he'd gone to the gym to see if he could "exercise the sickness and away"

Pulvis Sumus posted:

A meeting with my team and another team from a vendor we have been working with was canceled today because the vendor's team all traveled internationally for a work event and everyone got COVID in the middle of the trip. My team has 3 out of 5 people also out with COVID and it has been a non-stop parade of people getting sick for a while now. One of the dudes on my team mentioned he'd gone to the gym to see if he could "exercise the sickness and away" and "tried not to cough on any of the machinery." Our CEO just sent out an email that he's recovering from "some sort of nasty virus" but expects to be back in the office soon. RIP.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Meanwhile, in Australia .....


https://www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-diseases/victorian-covid-19-surveillance-report

RandomBlue posted:

well at least there's no deaths

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

quote:

I want to reiterate: it doesn't have to be this way. We're all going to be perma sick if we continue down this path. We need strong public health measures to try and cut the spread of respiratory viruses year round, but especially during the winter months. Wear a respirator (if you need some for free, reach out to Mask Up Pittsburgh), get the updated vaccine, consider cleaning your air with a HEPA filter, advocate for better ventilation in schools, and please for the love of god at least recognize that it's NOT NORMAL to be sick for half the year. Face reality. It's loving SARS and the government's plan is just to let everyone get infected 2-3 times per year instead of giving people access to free tests, treatments, and PPE. You never clear this virus from your body and yet you don't get any lasting immunity. Covid weakens your immune system leaving you vulnerable to other infections. One in ten infections leads to long covid. That's one in ten infections, not one in ten people. This is not sustainable. Where is the health department? Where is the CDC? Where is anyone who is in a position of power who could help us?
THIS poo poo IS SO hosed. Don't let it gently caress you.

Jort Fortress posted:

condescending tone. Very normal doctor!

quote:

In aggregate, from 2010 to 2019, the number of [automotive] serious injuries and deaths in Nevada subsided and then flatlined, more or less in line with national trends. Multiple airbags were standard on nearly every new vehicle, regardless of price, and backup cameras and lane-departure and blind-spot sensors were cheaper to produce. The improved technology meant that drivers not only had more peripheral awareness; they were more likely to survive crashes that might have killed the occupant of an older vehicle. “It all made sense to me — all the things that were supposed to be working were working,” Kuhls remembers. “But then things stopped making sense. Everything changed, radically, like someone had flipped a switch.”

In 2020, as Covid-19 rattled through the state, law enforcement and E.M.T. workers began reporting a large increase in road-related injuries, despite the lockdowns and the relative emptiness of the streets; in 2021, the state recorded 385 fatalities, a 15-year high. The following year was hardly much better, with 382 fatal crashes and a 114 percent increase in the number of cyclists killed on the road. (For public-messaging reasons, vehicular wrecks are almost never referred to by experts as “accidents,” wording that implies no culpability on the part of the participants.)

The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers. After a decade of steady decline, intoxicated-driving arrests had rebounded to near historic highs.

“Drivers were frustrated,” says Kuhls, now a professor of surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at U.N.L.V. and chief of trauma at an affiliated public hospital. “My own theory is that whatever personal conflicts they had were exacerbated because they’d been sheltering in place during Covid. So they’d get on the road having self-medicated with drugs or alcohol, or they’d just be incredibly reckless.”

Precambrian Video Games posted:

Gonna post this in i hate cars eventually but in the meantime ahhhhhh:

Nevada's casinos were allowed to reopen on June 4, 2020, with restrictions.

Precambrian Video Games posted:

Gonna post this in i hate cars eventually but in the meantime ahhhhhh:

Nevada's casinos were allowed to reopen on June 4, 2020, with restrictions.

Steve Yun posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6Id7ETL2U