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I feel compelled to write that I don’t think the US is quite ready or quite prepared to handle everything that’s about to come in terms of the COVID-19 virus.
I don’t mean to scare anybody, but I truly do not believe that we truly have a grasp on what is yet to happen. A lot of things have unfolded over the past several days, many of which have affected my family and me personally. Tons of clinics are closing, schools are closing, outpatient facilities are closing, non-emergent procedural areas are closing.
Outpatient procedures and non-emergent procedures are being rescheduled for up to ninety days now. According to a medical professional that I met with yesterday in the course of going about my normal business, they have officially locked away all of their personal protective equipment or PPE.
There in an office that no one has access to and they are only allowing a certain amount of masks and protective equipment at a certain given time and that is because people will steal them in the hospital.
As a sort-of public service announcement for those of you who happen across this story, please do not steal masks from health care workers or hospitals if you are visiting there. Health care workers need these masks to take care of not only the coronavirus patients but also other sick patients as well and if they do…
