Here we are in Austin, Texas and in the middle of the Corona crisis. Thought I'd start documenting my experience.
Today I am at work in a small ER in Austin. Census is eerily low. It feels like waiting for the calm before the storm. We normally see between 35 and 45 patients and we've been seeing 8-15 for about a week now. All of the ER's are the same. We have 541 confirmed cases of COVID 19 with 9 deaths in our county as of today. According to one respiratory therapist I spoke with who works downtown at one of the bigger hospitals in our system they have 6 confirmed cases, 5 are in ICU on ventilators. All except one are 20-30 years old, the other is 55. New York is being hit the hardest with so many people dying in their hospitals they have set up ice trucks for morgues.
Our house is on semi lock down. Kyle, Travis, Jacob not working. That just became too much of a risk as they were in the food service business and little or no control of people coming and going and no masks. Greta, Meagan and I are still working as we are considered essential workers. We have stations at the front and back doors to sanitize ourselves and anything we bring in the house including all groceries. We shop almost exclusively at H-E-B because they had good measures in place for social distancing and sanitizing very early on. Love H-E-B.
Our state is not expected to get the worst of it until late April, early May and we are only just beginning to actually see the effects in our area now. Traffic is down, less people are out, hospitals weirdly slow but actually beginning to see cases of COVID 19.
Today I am at work in a small ER in Austin. Census is eerily low. It feels like waiting for the calm before the storm. We normally see between 35 and 45 patients and we've been seeing 8-15 for about a week now. All of the ER's are the same. We have 541 confirmed cases of COVID 19 with 9 deaths in our county as of today. According to one respiratory therapist I spoke with who works downtown at one of the bigger hospitals in our system they have 6 confirmed cases, 5 are in ICU on ventilators. All except one are 20-30 years old, the other is 55. New York is being hit the hardest with so many people dying in their hospitals they have set up ice trucks for morgues.
Our house is on semi lock down. Kyle, Travis, Jacob not working. That just became too much of a risk as they were in the food service business and little or no control of people coming and going and no masks. Greta, Meagan and I are still working as we are considered essential workers. We have stations at the front and back doors to sanitize ourselves and anything we bring in the house including all groceries. We shop almost exclusively at H-E-B because they had good measures in place for social distancing and sanitizing very early on. Love H-E-B.
Our state is not expected to get the worst of it until late April, early May and we are only just beginning to actually see the effects in our area now. Traffic is down, less people are out, hospitals weirdly slow but actually beginning to see cases of COVID 19.
