COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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Woman who died of COVID-19 refused to go to hospital, believed it was the flu, worried about bills, her son says
Son said his mother thought she just had the flu

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SEAN D. HAMILL
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
shamill@post-gazette.com


MAR 25, 2020

6:58 PM
Ofelia Rousseva thought she just had the flu before she died of COVID-19 on March 19, becoming the second person in Allegheny County to die of the disease.

Even though the flu conditions were enough that Mrs. Rousseva, 78, slept for most of two days before she died in her son’s home in Greenfield — she had been visiting from her home in Bulgaria since November — she told her son she did not want to go to the hospital

“She didn’t have insurance. She thought she might not be able to pay the bills,” her son, Ludmil Velev, said Wednesday from his hospital bed at UPMC Presbyterian, where he has been treated for COVID-19 since Monday. “And being a foreigner, she was worried even more

Mr. Velev said he told his mother — a famed women’s choir director in her hometown in Sofia, Bulgaria — that she should go to the hospital.

“She was refusing to go,” said Mr. Velev, 43, a Lyft and Uber driver who has difficulty breathing now. “She thought it was regular flu and that it would get better by itself.”

That was partly because Mr. Velev’s daughter, Isabella, 4, got sick first about two weeks ago “but she went through it fast” and was fine in a couple days. Then his wife, Carmen Blanco, got sick just briefly and was fine in a day

Both he and his mother started getting sick at about the same time around March 12. That was about the time that Mr. Velev said he stopped taking rides for Uber and Lyft, the ride-hailing companies he works for.


Woman who died of COVID-19 refused to go to hospital, worried about bills, her son says

shyt's hitting a little too close for comfort now :francis:
 

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Interesting posts @tru_m.a.c
appreciate it fam

I'm done spamming. I've been watching the thread but I haven't been in the right place mentally to participate. Hopefully everyone can look with clear eyes at how our communities are going to be left for dead like China was. NYTimes/WaPo/WSJ are not going to investigate the care given to the poor and working class unless they can pin it on Trump.
 

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2,400 people around the world died from this shyt today and counting :francis:

If trends continue like they have been, it will be 5,000+ a day by Monday :francis:

There's roughly 56 million deaths around the world every year... coronavirus is already accounting for roughly 1.5% of daily deaths around the world and that number is growing every day.
 

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Which Covid-19 drugs work best?

The data: While favipiravir, an antiviral made by Toyama Chemical (part of Fuji Film), generated hopeful headlines, the report from doctors at China’s Wuhan University makes more modest claims. They organized a study of 240 “ordinary” patients (meaning they had pneumonia but were not the worst cases) around Hubei province. Half got favipiravir and half got umifenovir (or Arbidol), an antiviral used in Russia, and they were watched to see which group recovered faster. The doctors found that patients’ fevers and coughs went away faster on favipiravir, but similar numbers in each group ended up needing oxygen or a ventilator. On the basis of these findings, they concluded that favipiravir is the “preferred” of the two drugs.



Let’s goo
 

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About a month and a week was wasted time. If Trump asked his advisers for the worst case scenario and prepped for half of it back then we might have been able to reach the full extent. Our medical system is already starting to strain and when that happens the death toll is probably gonna spike massively.
Oh. And what source do you have inside the Oval to confirm what was or wasn't happening?
 
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