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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1776)	3/9/2020 11:33:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2202

I'm glad I'm retired. 13/ Someone already to be intubated and go to intensive care. For others it's too late... Every ventilator becomes like gold: those in operating theatres that have now suspended their non-urgent activity become intensive care places that did not exist before. — Silvia Stringhini (@silviast9) March 9, 2020 -- I got hired for my first job cuz flu exploded in the Bay Area, and hospitals were short-handed. School was in a portable classroom on the hospital grounds. When we got back from Xmas vacation, my teacher asked if I wanted a job, and took me up to the Respiratory Therapy dept. I had exactly zero clinical experience, and my other instructor taught me how to give a treatment that afternoon. I was the first green new deal. I was about the only therapist not putting in OT. IIRC, one guy worked like 30 straight days. We had to rent a couple of ventilators for several months. It was the worst outbreak of my career. SACRAMENTO (UPI) - State health officials say this year’s epidemic of London flu is nearly over, leaving in its wake 1.083 deaths in California s major cities alone. Dr. James Chin, head of the Department of Public Health’s infectious disease unit, said the death toll was 81 less than the number who died during the Hong Kong flu outbreak in 1968-69. Chin declared the 1972-73 influenza season is just about ended, but predicted another, less severe, outbreak of London flu this winter. He said a vaccine against the virus will be available by then and advised elderly persons and the chronically ill to obtain flu shots early next fall. The number of deaths resulting from flu and resulting pneumonia dropped from a peak of 162 in the first week of February to 54 during the first week of March, Chin said. “Northern California was struck the hardest, particularly in the Bay Area. Southern California was hit hard too, but the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in excess of the norm did not occur as rapidly,” Chin said. cdnc.ucr.edu