Feeling Confused about Corona ?

Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu?  Here it is in a nutshell.   I hope this helps.  Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand... 

It has to do with RNA sequencing....  I.e. genetics.

Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”.  The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system.  This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year...  you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot. 

Novel viruses, come from animals....  the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu).  But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem,  Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is  from an infected animal to a human before  it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase.  And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu.    It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too. 

Fast forward.

Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people.  At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human.   Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket.  And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza....  this one is slippery AF.   And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

We really have no tools in our shed, with this.  History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics.  Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

Factoid:  Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next. 

Be smart ...   

#flattenthecurve.  Stay home ..  and share this to those that just are not catching on. 

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We are not taking care of nurses. Who will heal the healers?

Michael Kirsch is a gastroenterologist who blogs at MD Whistleblower.

Thanks for exploring the reality..........

On the day that I penned this post, I rounded at our community hospital.   My first patient was in the step-down unit, which houses patients who are too ill for the regular hospital floor.   I spoke to the nurse in order to be briefed on my patient’s status.  I learned that this nurse was assigned six patients to care for — an absurd patient volume for a step-down unit.

“Why so many patients?” I asked.She explained that some nurses called off work and the patients had to be spread around among the existing nurses.

This occurs every day in every hospital in the country.  Nurses are routinely required to care for more patients than they should because there is a nursing shortage on a particular day.  Why do hospital administrators allow this to happen?  If any are reading this post, I invite your response.  Enlighten us.  When a nurse is overburdened, how do you think this affects quality of care and nursing morale?

I suppose it saves a few bucks on the payroll, but this strikes me as very short term gain that risks medical and financial consequences.   Providing high-quality medical care can’t be a rushed effort.  If a nurse’s job description increases by 30 percent, do you think the quality of care and patient/family satisfaction won’t decline?   Don’t administrators fear the risk of medical errors from overworked nurses?  Would any of them like to be patients under these circumstances?

Nurses have confided to me for years how demoralized they are that no one speaks for them.  Instead of watching their backs, they often feel that they are stabbed in the back.

I do not have warm feelings for labor unions, and I support right to work initiatives.  But, when I see what nurses endure and the lack of support that they receive, I would support them if they moved to organize.

If a third-grade teacher is ill, we expect a substitute teacher to be called in.  The third graders are not simply herded into another classroom expecting one teacher to handle a double load.

Many of us today are asked to do more with less.  Teachers, law enforcement, businesspeople, and government program administrators know this well.  At some point, you aren’t cutting fat anymore but are slicing into bone. We are not taking proper care of those who have dedicated their lives to care for us.  Who will heal the healers?