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Link is paywalled on mobile, thanks for the archive. Hospital tents that house the plague victims would be safer for regular hospital patients who were not orig

Link is paywalled on mobile, thanks for the archive. Hospital tents that house the plague victims would be safer for regular hospital patients who were not originally infected. Doctors and nurses interacting with plague victims shouldn't work with any other patients and should stay in the quarantine zone until they are cleared.

jdavis703 5y ago
Have you been to an ER recently? At least at my hospital this is exactly what they do. There’s a tent next to the ER entrance. They ask a bunch of questions about symptoms and do a temperature check. If you appear COVID+ they send you to the tent, otherwise you go to the regular ER.
- literallyaduck 5y ago
  The doctors and nurses work with non-covid patients and covid patients, it could be that the state I'm in hasn't gotten the memo.
- a9h74j 5y ago
  Off-topic, but there could come a day when it is safer as a regular patient to be operated upon in a makeshift tent. A doctor with Doctors Without Borders once said in an interview that with field tents, they did not have problems with the usual hospital-borne infections. He said it was due to the constant turnover of air and organisms.
bartread 5y ago
Could you tone it down a bit, please? In common English parlance "plague" or "the plague" almost always refers to bubonic plague or diseases caused by the same bacterium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague). COVID and "the plague" have very little in common. In particular the former is caused by a virus, the latter by a bacterium. Beyond the obviously different types of pathogen, their symptoms, mechanisms of transmission, prevention, management, and treatment are also quite different. Moreover using unnecessarily incendiary language to discuss COVID, even if you think you're just being funny, isn't helpful because it's too easy for people to misinterpret.

jdavis703 5y ago

Have you been to an ER recently? At least at my hospital this is exactly what they do. There’s a tent next to the ER entrance. They ask a bunch of questions about symptoms and do a temperature check. If you appear COVID+ they send you to the tent, otherwise you go to the regular ER.

literallyaduck 5y ago
The doctors and nurses work with non-covid patients and covid patients, it could be that the state I'm in hasn't gotten the memo.
a9h74j 5y ago
Off-topic, but there could come a day when it is safer as a regular patient to be operated upon in a makeshift tent. A doctor with Doctors Without Borders once said in an interview that with field tents, they did not have problems with the usual hospital-borne infections. He said it was due to the constant turnover of air and organisms.

bartread 5y ago

Could you tone it down a bit, please? In common English parlance "plague" or "the plague" almost always refers to bubonic plague or diseases caused by the same bacterium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague). COVID and "the plague" have very little in common. In particular the former is caused by a virus, the latter by a bacterium. Beyond the obviously different types of pathogen, their symptoms, mechanisms of transmission, prevention, management, and treatment are also quite different. Moreover using unnecessarily incendiary language to discuss COVID, even if you think you're just being funny, isn't helpful because it's too easy for people to misinterpret.