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       #Post#: 2694--------------------------------------------------
       Michigan healthcare system restricts visitors due to spike in &q
       uot;respiratory illnesses"
       By: Steve Date: January 10, 2025, 2:28 pm
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       SUMMARY - Corewell Health, a healthcare system in the state of
       Michigan, announced today (2025-01-10) that it is restricting
       the number of visitors to their pediatric units as a result of
       an increase in "respiratory illnesses." There was no
       recommendation of masking in the press release.
       LINK -
  HTML https://newsroom.corewellhealth.org/news-releases?item=125132
  HTML https://newsroom.corewellhealth.org/news-releases?item=125132
       
       #Post#: 2701--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Michigan healthcare system restricts visitors due to spike i
       n "respiratory illnesses"
       By: Masked Man Date: January 10, 2025, 11:48 pm
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       Masked man side comment for what it is worth :
       I just can't help but comment on this..Oh that's so backwards...
       limiting visitors but not masking! They need to limit the
       maskless.
       Data Report's own experience of going to urgent care today
       reminds us how easy it would be to infect these maskless
       healthcare workers. Data Report tells us of going to Urgent care
       today for scary chest problems and the receptionist isn't
       masking... it goes to show Data Report was positive and goes to
       Urgent Care and some receptionist isn't masking for a patient
       who is positive for covid!... its ridiculous!
       Maskless people are asking for it. Its just bizarre that a
       receptionist wouldn't mask in front a patient who has admittedly
       tested positive for covid...totally reckless and the
       receptionist could carry covid to others. I just don't get it.
       They need to limit the maskless people in healthcare for their
       own safety.. they need to get rid of the maskless people in
       health care. Its just poses too great a risk to the maskless and
       those they have contact with. Its just so weird not to mask
       around a person that says they are really sick and hurtin' and
       that its contagious!
       #Post#: 2715--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Michigan healthcare system restricts visitors due to spike i
       n "respiratory illnesses"
       By: Masked Man Date: January 11, 2025, 7:02 pm
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       Masked Man makes another point...
       One more point about receptionists not wearing masks... They are
       endangering everybody there including Data Report who visited
       and other patients and visitors who go to urgent care because
       you can catch other things on top of what ya already got.. in
       other words anybody sick with covid or pneumonia that is
       visiting urgent health care or a healthcare facility can catch
       another illness more than possibly from unmasked receptionist.
       You see people enter healthcare because they are already sick
       therefore they are already considered 'at risk' patients. A
       covid patient can catch a the flu because some unmasked doctor
       breathes on their patient while using stethoscope... It just
       doesn't make sense that  an unmasked receptionist would be
       allowed to risk infecting patients with something something on
       top of what they already have.
       People in charge of determining whether others have an illness
       or not shouldn't  breathe on their specimens.
       If you're really on top of how airborne diseases work, You don't
       breathe in and out germs or viruses in a laboratory setting so
       why should ya breathe in and out germs of viruses outside the
       laboratory setting where people are already coming in sick?
       These doctors go to school for 6 years and they can't seem to
       grasp this simple concept about how people can get infected with
       more than one airborne diseases by others like their own
       maskless faces, maskless staff  and maskless receptionists.
       Not long ago a stranger told me how he went into a doctor's
       office with covid then contracted pneumonia while he was there
       and then had to go to hospital for six months where he was told
       he'd never walk again. That guy didn't wear a mask and pumped
       out my septic tank. While I kept my distance from him across the
       yard my mask.
       Also my significant other's cousin picked up covid in a hospital
       while he was getting surgery or something and then died of
       covid.. he got covid from his hospital stay.
       When I was a little kid in the mid 70's many doctors understood
       this concept not to breathe on your specimen because I had
       really bad allergy asthma and had to go into hospital and they
       constructed a tent for me so that other patients wouldn't spread
       germs to me when I was in a weakened state. My parents visited
       me outside the tent. So in the 70's doctor's were aware of this
       phenomena of how airborne diseases can affect the patient who is
       already in a "weakened state" due to an illness. (That's a
       doctor's job to protect prevent diseases and save lives).
       When ya work with microscopes to study microscopic entities It’s
       generally considered a taboo or a big no-no to accidentally
       breathe on the slide plate that where the thing is that you are
       observing nor should you fog up the microscope’ lense with your
       breath and you’d get an F for contaminating your work and the
       specimen your studying.. it should be the same with human
       specimens that are already in a weakened state seeking care.
       Wear a masks doctors if there is anything scientific about your
       approach in regards to airborne diseases.
       Also doctors, you just have to stay up to date with things and
       accept the fact that in the last five years these new diseases
       such as covid are actually dangerous... you simply want to do
       everything possible to lower risk of catching and transmitting
       diseases amongst yourselves staff and those you care for namely
       your patients. You want to promote circulation in your buildings
       and you definitely should Mask when working around airborne
       diseases. Hygiene as well as constant custodial cleaning should
       be part of your arsenal against airborne diseases as well... its
       just not like it used to be.
       Also I suggest doctors keep up to date by reading the archives
       in this sight.. if you're a doctor you'd have to be a fool not
       to peruse these handy archives of  the latest happenings in
       regards to covid , the bird flu and all the other viruses going
       around... Follow the data here at Data Report Info if you want
       to keep tabs on what's really going on all over the world right
       now. Its handy to use this forum!
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