Families Watch Helplessly As Coronavirus Hits Nursing Homes and Infects Loved Ones
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Limiting the symptomatic individuals should Espread – and not overwhelming the isolate themselves in their own room local hospital system – may hinge, and use their own bathroom, said in part, on knowing what symptoms Liang. look like, and how to manage your “They have to have their own own case. space carved out to maintain that degree of isolation,” he said. Know the symptoms Liang recommends that patients A first essential step is to know the put on a mask whenever they leave symptoms most commonly linked to the room or are close to others, and the virus, and to be on high alert for reiterates the importance of cleaning them in yourself and others around shared environments and “high- you. Symptoms in many people can touch” surfaces, like door handles. be tricky to pick up in the initial days Patients should be sure to hydrate of the illness – often including body well, Liang said, and can take things aches, and general malaise, said Dr like Tylenol to keep fevers in check. Stephen Liang, an infectious disease The only other keys are patience and expert and assistant professor at the continued monitoring. “There’s not Washington University School of much else to do other than monitor Medicine. It’s not until a little later IMPORTANT: Isolation is of the utmost importance for those who are symptomatic or known to have coronavirus. symptoms and make sure symptoms that more tell-tale symptoms of the Those with the virus must remain isolated until 72 hours after symptoms cease and longer if they have compromised are continuing to resolve,” said Liang. virus usually begin to surface, like immune systems. “We don’t have a silver bullet for this a fever, shortness of breath, and a infection.” cough. Cross the finish line and don’t Track your progress let your guard down As soon as symptoms emerge, Once coronavirus symptoms Liang recommends keeping a diary improve, it is vital to stay isolated to track their progression. That for the full 72 hours after symptoms includes taking temperature readings vanish. and carefully observing whether Experts say recognising that conditions are getting better or requirement is essential. Even if worse, he said. someone might be nearly healthy If symptoms are mild, don’t again and assured of recovery, they further crowd hospitals – call your can still be a potentially deadly vector doctor. to countless others. “I think getting in contact with “Even if you’re feeling better, think your primary care physician would be about it as keeping others around you a great way to start,” Liang said. healthy,” said Liang. “That really has The vast majority of coronavirus to be a societal buy-in. ... That has cases – around 80% – are mild and a bigger implication for the entire will resolve on their own. About 15% community.” And if any symptom of cases are severe; 5% are critical reoccurs? Start over at the top. and require visits to an intensive care “It’s just being really vigilant about unit. symptoms and that there is a really For mild cases, staying at clear trajectory of improvement,” said home and taking “a watch-and- Liang. After symptoms are gone, it’s see approach is probably pretty still important for individuals to wash reasonable,” Liang said. If more hands diligently, since the duration of severe symptoms develop, such as how long people can shed the virus is chest pains or trouble breathing, still not completely clear, Liang said. then it’s time to seek medical care, Risks of transmission, though, are he adds. greatly reduced at that point. Those with only mild symptoms “We know that the people most probably won’t get tested, Liang likely to transmit this disease are explains. “We’re in a test-shortage symptomatic,” he said. situation where we would love to test Keep practicing prevention. The everyone if we could,” he says. “(But) old saying, “An ounce of prevention we’re trying to save that testing is worth a pound of cure,” rings capability for the sickest patients.” especially true now, with vaccines yet undeveloped and the virus spreading Isolate yourself through communities at exponential Isolation is of the utmost rates. Continue social distancing, importance for those who are hand-washing, good cough etiquette, symptomatic or known to have and other steps to minimise risk. coronavirus. Those with the virus – St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, April 9, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY At sixes and sevens The stakes are literally life and death, since residents, who are elderly and almost always have underlying health problems, are among the most vulnerable to the lethal new pathogen, write Marisa Gerber, Matt Hamilton, Anita Chabria and Jack Dolan SPOTLIGHT: The Kensington is one of 11 nursing home facilities with an outbreak of coronavirus in Los Angeles County. The one here is an assisted living residence in Redondo Beach, California. livia Labrador’s loved ones out of nursing homes (Those nursing homes) mind started racing to save them from the pandemic, last week after she Labrador and her family faced an will do their best, received a call from her awful dilemma, one that would they’ll try to contain 89-year-old father’s have seemed unimaginable a month Onursing home, Garden Crest ago. But they are far from alone. it, but people will run Rehabilitation Center in Silver Across the US, outbreaks are Lake, informing her that a patient occurring in nursing homes out of (protective at the facility had tested positive for at terrifying speed — leading the coronavirus. administrators to ban visitors, equipment), caregivers “Oh my God,” Labrador thought, confine patients to their rooms and picturing patients she’d seen on scramble to create sterile wings to will get sick, and breathing machines in the past. treat residents who come down with people will die “What’s going to happen to all of the disease. The stakes are literally them?” life and death, since residents, who Labrador’s family considered are elderly and almost always have their options. They could bring her underlying health problems, are — David A Nace, father home, but they worried he among the most vulnerable to the clinical chief of might already have been exposed lethal new pathogen.