Who is getting a little scare about SARS *POLL*

[Ylen13]

i should be worry but i am not. Parents are at risk due to the work they do but they just keep their eyes open and ask alot of questions

 

[stev0]

Originally posted by: notfred
Not scared or worried in the slightest. I more worried about getting sunburnt by looknig at my monitor.

nicely put. 😀

 

[boyRacer]

this is all the media's fault... :|

 

[Ylen13]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
this is all the media's fault... :|

why???

 

[illusion88]

I am currently getting my EMT cert. I was doing some clinical time in the ER a few weeks back. The day I was there a vietnamese guy came in with a mask on his face. He spoke broken english so it was hard to find out about the mask at first. We all thought it was TB or something of that nature. It turns out that he had recently returned from vietnam and was diagnosed with SARS. When we got that information all of the nurses (and me) were freaking out. He got put in a decon room until he could be admitted into the hospital. HE got moved into some kind of containment room. Its been a week and all of us are ok. I mean shoot, I took vitals on that guy, I listened to his breath sounds! Ahh! Scary...
But I marked "What to scare about" because its not so bad. Only 2 cases here and both under containment. I doubt it will be all that bad, all the ERs around the country are real good at keeping stuff like that under control...
assuming its like one patient at a time 😉

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Jmman
Actually I believe there have been many cases here in the US, but nobody has died from it. And even though they do not yet have a vaccine, it isn't anywhere close to being that lethal anyway. Now Ebola is scary stuff. Something like 80% of the people that get it die, and die quickly. In a way that is a good thing. The people die so fast that they don't have a chance to spread it.....

one of the main reasons why it hasn't spread throughout the world and killed us all (well somthing like 80% at least). It kills fast enough that it will wipe out a town before it can go to the next. Think about this though...
A guy goes to Africa, gets ebola and the next day is on his plane to the US... How many people on that plane get it? Or in his airport? Even if none of them get it what about his family and coworkers? Lets hope he is a mortician :Q

 

[Ylen13]

Originally posted by: illusion88
I am currently getting my EMT cert. I was doing some clinical time in the ER a few weeks back. The day I was there a vietnamese guy came in with a mask on his face. He spoke broken english so it was hard to find out about the mask at first. We all thought it was TB or something of that nature. It turns out that he had recently returned from vietnam and was diagnosed with SARS. When we got that information all of the nurses (and me) were freaking out. He got put in a decon room until he could be admitted into the hospital. HE got moved into some kind of containment room. Its been a week and all of us are ok. I mean shoot, I took vitals on that guy, I listened to his breath sounds! Ahh! Scary...
But I marked "What to scare about" because its not so bad. Only 2 cases here and both under containment. I doubt it will be all that bad, all the ERs around the country are real good at keeping stuff like that under control...
assuming its like one patient at a time 😉

its good that he told u guys. My parents woudn't know probeably as its non-emergency medical transportatoin and the people are old. So if they did go to over seas and came back they probeably will forget that they were over sees by the time they call us and make an appoinment to be transported to a doctor because they are not feeling to good.