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Message: [QUOTE="MSUFan2003, post: 3502211, member: 9409"] The general public can be tough to deal with. I appreciate everyone working at grocery stores, CVS, ect. I think that is actually one of the higher risk places to work and shop because of the number of asymptotic carriers. We are sending people home from ERs to self-quarantine, but there is no follow up to see if they actually self-quarantined. I think there are a lot of people out and about in the community that are spreading it right now. It's variable across states as to who can even get tested. It seems like we are testing anyone with a fever at my hospital, but I've heard different stories from colleagues in other states. The South is supposed to be the next hot spot, and Mississippi is supposed to peak April 21. New Orleans is an absolute nightmare from what I've heard. They are offering RNs $10,000/week right now to go down there, and I have a colleague going down next week. A lot of the cases we've seen at my hospital were tracked back to Florida and New Orleans initially. Now, it's anyone coming in with it. We have 24 COVID ICU beds, and they were about half full when I left Sunday. We opened up 56 regular beds- about 1/3 full last Sunday. Everyone is getting ready. I'm going back for round 2 tomorrow. I work in cardiology, so we mainly have elective procedures. Since those have mostly been cancelled, my coworkers and I are taking turns on the COVID unit. Last weekend was an adventure but ended up okay. I did have appropriate PPE. We got some big donations of PPE from some local stores last week, which was nice. I have so much respect for anyone working an Ebola crisis or something similar. It's absolutely miserable to stay in PPE all day. [/QUOTE]

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