Mississippi needs help. But so does/do…?

[Spiky Bugger]

I heard on the news that federal DMAT (Disaster Medical Assistance Teams*) are being sent to help. One of my nurse cousins is a DMAT nurse, so I texted her and asked if she was packing to go to Mississippi.

She can’t go. She’s already deployed to Arizona, ( I forgot to ask where, DianaCox ) doing monoclonal antibody infusions to those COVID patients.

I hadn’t heard that and we have news on almost all day. I wonder how many other teams are deployed around the country.


*They are like the National Guard, except that they work all over the world. When their unit is called up to work, they leave their regular jobs if they are still working (my cousin is retired) and their jobs are protected like National Guard members‘ jobs are protected when they are deployed.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Oh. They are also deployed to LA.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I hadn’t heard that and we have news on almost all day. I wonder how many other teams are deployed around the country.

I wonder, too. googled and still don't know.

 

[southernlady]

Oh. They are also deployed to LA.

As in Los Angeles, CA or Lower Alabama?

 

[Spiky Bugger]

As in Los Angeles, CA or Lower Alabama?

Sorry! Louisiana!

 

[JackieOnLine]

I had just assumed Los Angeles for some reason.

 

[southernlady]

I had just assumed Los Angeles for some reason.

Having family in AL, that’s where my head went

 

[Larra]

There are nursing shortages now all over the place, and few or none available to fill in because they are already filling in elsewhere. And this was all totally preventable.

 

[MsVee]

I saw on the news about Louisiana having a large number of pediatric cases caused by the Delta variant. It seems that they are discovering more children suffering from COVID.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I saw on the news about Louisiana having a large number of pediatric cases caused by the Delta variant. It seems that they are discovering more children suffering from COVID.

Yes, and…the Delta variant, like all variants, was caused by allowing it a place to grow and change, which was caused by too many unvaccinated people, which was likely caused by pretending it would all go away or that it was a hoax and so on. (I have to stop here ‘lest we move into the area of politics.)

 

[DianaCox]

Well, the Delta variant arose late last year, before anyone outside of clinical trials was vaccinated, so vaccination wouldn’t have stopped it. But the spread? And opportunity for further variants? Yup.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I was not aware it was that old. (I guess because it wasn’t named Delta until this May…oh, well.)

We are not “sick enough” to qualify for the booster…but I may try anyway.

 

[southernlady]

I was not aware it was that old. (I guess because it wasn’t named Delta until this May…oh, well.)

We are not “sick enough” to qualify for the booster…but I may try anyway.

When we get a chance at it, we will as well.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

When we get a chance at it, we will as well.

Yup. Israel has been doing third shot for a while.

We’re so close, but his heart attack was over twenty years ago. He WAS “doing without” his immunosuppressant meds, but the psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis, with plaques that get big and break and bleed and the arthritis pain are all worse without the drugs. He’s 68.

I’m 74. My cancer was 40+ years ago, no post-op treatment was ever needed and my COPD exists but I don’t need to supplement O2. All of my other maladies are disabling and a HUGE PITA, but none are life-threatening at the moment.

In spite of attempts to improve, our Health Care System still requires that we get really sick to qualify for treatment, instead of “cutting them off at the pass.” And too many people die waiting to be declared “sick enough.”

 

[JackieOnLine]

I saw on the news about Louisiana having a large number of pediatric cases caused by the Delta variant. It seems that they are discovering more children suffering from COVID.

the more we learn about the delta variant the worse it sounds.