@RobSandIA Rob, I am a pediatrician at MercyOne in Des Moines. Last week our lab had to send tests to Arizona because we didn’t have the reagents in-house to run them. Increased the turn around time from 24-36 hours to 5 days. Weekly concerns about test availability in addition.
Kim Reynolds was talking to herself regarding Iowans complacency regarding COVID because nobody has been more complacent than her.
Also, COVID doesn’t start spreading at 10 pm and doesn’t usually take 15 min being around strangers. These are steps, but mainly window dressing 🤦♂️
No one wants to say it out loud but the real philosophical dilemma the country is facing is how many jobs one life is worth. There is no right answer but one wrong answer is infinity. Glad I’m not one of the folks who actually has to make the big decisions.
Just got an email from my employer with a lot of info but a line that included “there’s no evidence of community spread here in iowa”. This is going to go very, very poorly. Who wants to start training family members how to properly bag patients when we run out of vents?