Topic: Those of you who are young. Hot off the Press 40+ year old Nurse dies of Virus
+All the News that is Fit to Print II — 6.2 years ago #55,531
2nd photo shows the hi tech gear Nurses are now using because they have nothing else to protect themhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/nurse-dies-coronavirus-mount-sinai.html
A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear.
2nd photo shows the hi tech gear Nurses are now using because they have nothing else to protect them
“I’m okay. Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’ll worry,” he wrote to his sister. He may be the first nurse in New York City to die from the coronavirus.
Kious Kelly, a nurse manager at a Manhattan hospital, texted his sister on March 18 with some devastating news: He had tested positive for the coronavirus and was on a ventilator in the intensive care unit. He told her he could text but not talk.
“I’m okay. Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’ll worry,” he wrote to his sister, Marya Patrice Sherron.
That was his last message. Ms. Sherron’s subsequent texts to him went unanswered. In less than a week, he was dead.
Mr. Kelly, a 48-year-old assistant nurse manager at Mount Sinai West, may have been the first New York City nurse to die from the virus.
His sister said he had asthma but was otherwise well.
“His death could have been prevented,” Ms. Sherron said on Facebook Wednesday. Later, she added: “I’m angry. He was healthy.”
Colleagues at the hospital were angry, too. Some complained on social media channels that they did not have an adequate supply of protective clothing or masks.
A nurse who worked with Mr. Kelly said the hospital had offered nurses one plastic protective gown for an entire shift, though normal protocol required a change of gowns between interactions with infected patients. The nurse, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the staff member was not authorized to speak to the media, said Mr. Kelly had not used protective equipment, even though he regularly helped nurses on his team with hands-on care.
Editor's Note: So hospital personal go from infected patient to another patient. Trump said he is doing a 10/10 great job of solving this problem.
As recently as March 10, he helped a nurse take off her protective gear after working with a patient who tested positive for the virus, the nurse said.
Several Mount Sinai West staff members, contacted for this story, said they had been told by hospital administrators not to speak to journalists. Mr. Kelly’s death was first reported in The New York Post.
Gia Lisa Krahne, an outside consultant who provided alternative Ayurvedic care to a patient at Mount Sinai West, said she last saw Mr. Kelly at work the week of March 9, interacting with patients and hospital staff, wearing neither a mask nor any protective gear.
Bevon Bloise, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai West, complained on Facebook that the hospital does not have sufficient personal protective equipment, or P.P.E. “I’m also very angry with the Mount Sinai Health System for not protecting him. We do not have enough PPE, we do not have the correct PPE, and we do not have the appropriate staffing to handle this pandemic. And I do not appreciate representatives of this health system saying otherwise on the news.”
“We lost a great fighter during this war,” a co-worker named Diana Torres said on Facebook. She posted a photo of co-workers tying bandannas over their faces in an effort to protect themselves. “NO THIS IS NOT PROPER PPE,” she wrote.
On its Facebook page, Mount Sinai West said it was “deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff,” without naming Mr. Kelly.
In an email, a hospital spokeswoman, Lucia Lee, disputed the claim that the hospital had not furnished protective equipment to its staff. “This crisis is straining the resources of all New York area hospitals, and while we do — and have had — enough protective equipment for our staff, we will all need more in the weeks ahead,” Ms. Lee said in the statement.
The New York Post article included a photo of hospital staff wearing garbage bags over what appeared to be scrubs. Two nurses, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being fired, said they were disposable scrubs made of permeable material, which is why nurses wrapped plastic garbage bags around them.
The photo, they said, was taken on March 17, at a time when there were many coronavirus patients at the hospital and others who had yet to be tested but who presented symptoms of infection.
In the emailed statement, Ms. Lee added that “the troubling photo circulating in the media specifically shows the nurses in proper P.P.E. underneath garbage bags.”
She did not respond to a question asking why hospital staff wore garbage bags.
Mr. Kelly lived a few blocks away from the hospital and was described by colleagues as a dedicated, good-humored colleague.
“He used to carry around a thick notepad holder that hides a box full of chocolates and candies so he can have it handy to give out to miserable/ grumbly nurses and doctors who are more likely than not ‘hungry,’” Joanne Loo, a nurse at Mount Sinai West, posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
But nursing was not his first vocation. A native of Lansing, Michigan, Mr. Kelly moved to New York more than 20 years ago to pursue a career as a dancer, his sister said. He then went to nursing school and worked as a nurse at Mount Sinai West, before being promoted to the post of assistant manager in the telemetry department.
His family is now trying to bring his body back to Michigan.
“We know we can’t have a service anytime soon, but we want him home,” Ms. Sherron said. “He died alone. We want him home now.”
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·All the News that is Fit to Print II (OP) — 6.2 years ago, 19 seconds later[T] [B] #582,720
+Anonymous B — 6.2 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #582,721
So
+Syntax — 6.2 years ago, 19 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[T] [B] #582,792
@previous (B)
Head of CDC right in front of Trump said USA is NOT set up to deal with Pandemics. Has NO infrastructure.
For a Hurricane or Earthquake or Tornado - FEMA has trailers and cots and food and PEOPLE Trained to go to the location in need and help - Of course back at Katrina such was almost worthless but now is much better.
For Pandemic - Lack of a mass of medical devices even thermometers and reserves of Nurses Doctors Paramedics and in case of SARS MERS and now Covid19 the need for Ventilators in huge numbers and NO Plan even NOW to get more made.
Head of CDC right in front of Trump said USA is NOT set up to deal with Pandemics. Has NO infrastructure.
For a Hurricane or Earthquake or Tornado - FEMA has trailers and cots and food and PEOPLE Trained to go to the location in need and help - Of course back at Katrina such was almost worthless but now is much better.
For Pandemic - Lack of a mass of medical devices even thermometers and reserves of Nurses Doctors Paramedics and in case of SARS MERS and now Covid19 the need for Ventilators in huge numbers and NO Plan even NOW to get more made.
+Syntax — 6.2 years ago, 1 hour later, 23 hours after the original post[T] [B] #582,799
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HAVE U no clue how many FAMOUS PEOPLE use the 3rd person way of communication
Local News contains Local stuff like Dumb as all fuck pig fuckers running away from Cops on Freeway and it's fun to C them caught and slammed down on pavement with bloody nose looking like Bert after he does one hours worth of work.
HAVE U no clue how many FAMOUS PEOPLE use the 3rd person way of communication
Local News contains Local stuff like Dumb as all fuck pig fuckers running away from Cops on Freeway and it's fun to C them caught and slammed down on pavement with bloody nose looking like Bert after he does one hours worth of work.
+Anonymous E — 6.2 years ago, 39 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,801
@previous (Syntax)
So speeders are worse than fools such as you who ignore the directives of your mentally deranged Governor of Poop who tells you to keep your old ass inside for the greater good?
So speeders are worse than fools such as you who ignore the directives of your mentally deranged Governor of Poop who tells you to keep your old ass inside for the greater good?
+Anonymous F — 6.2 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,808
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> Catching the flu and dying is better than living in a prison because you might get sick.
How shit is your house that you compare it to a prison?
> Catching the flu and dying is better than living in a prison because you might get sick.
How shit is your house that you compare it to a prison?
+ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 6.2 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,812
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6.2 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,816
Thread IS:(Edited 2 minutes later.)
+Syntax — 6.2 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,817
@582,801 (E)> So speeders are worse than fools such as you who ignore the directives of your mentally deranged Governor of Poop who tells you to keep your old ass inside for the greater good?
I fully admit to venturing outside my 15 myle zone yesterday to Surf my Ocean a Blue - That said this AM and 4Hours in really not so much surf did this with friends RITE OUTSIDE My back door and down to sand
No law even tried cause for one thing the local first responders have cum down with Chinese Bug a bunch and now R out of site - Cops no want to end up like Such so they fear the water currently
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·Anonymous E — 6.2 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,837
·Syntax (OP) — 6.2 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #582,851
@previous (E)Thank You for asking
http://www.sdbeachinfo.com/
Avoid water contact in the closure area due to sewage-contaminated runoff from the Tijuana River.
SO ONLY for those who live in Rot Gun area next2the Border is the water Red warning - Checked Ever Morning and here three times a day by Scripps Ocean Institute as an on going project for Students and Researchers - Plus several of Scripps people Surf my Ocean a Blue daily INCLUDING 2Day
Must make ya pissed U cannot afford to live next2Ocean
Advisories
Advisory: San Diego Bay
Station: Shelter Island Shoreline
Status Since: March 9, 2020
Bacteria levels may exceed health standards. Avoid water contact in the advisory area.
Chronic Advisory: La Jolla
Station: Children's Pool
Status Since: September 1997
Bacteria levels may exceed health standards. Avoid water contact in the advisory area.
ALL South of Me by a Bunch and water flows South so only Fresh Ocean a Blue comes my way
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