They've been on again and off again with shutting my wife's facility down. She runs an immediate care facility. They keep wanting to close one and move the staff to the hospital. First she was going to end up in the respiratory tent in the parking lot. Then they decided that wouldn't work as they use a different charting software. Etc. Nurses are ducking out. She had to let her best friend go. Her friend is just hopped on a plane to Mexico in order to avoid it (not possible but she's not the brightest). Left her 17 yr old son in the US with her parents looking in on him.
She finally got word they are keeping their site open as a "clean" facility or a place to handle non-covid cases. Good news but she is still seeing a ton of patients with it.
"Rob, the x-rays of their chests...they're scary. it looks like broken glass. So much damage. You can tell the second you put it up."
We've been exposed so many times and the illness that has been hanging on in our house for about 1.5 months is most likely covid but without knowing for sure...there's nothing we can do. If it is then much of what was presented is incorrect. We have hardly ever had a fever. Each one of us will have a hour or so of slightly elevated temps every couple of days. like 1-2 degrees. The mechanisms used end up translating to the feelings you/we get when we've been putting a heavy training block in. Your oxygen levels drop. Your body starts eating glycogen stores. Produces excess lactic acid apparently. That's where the headaches, and body/muscle soreness come in. She's been having patients come in with 84-87% oxygen but feeling fine. Get sort of winded when walking long distances or having to do much work. No fevers. Otherwise asymptomatic.
Hopefully you are well KP but what you're describing is right in line with what we have been seeing around here.
Hope the antibody tests end up being fixed and make it out widely. That's our only chance of returning to some semblance of life before a full vaccine in a year's time. That way we can get an idea of who has had it.
USA Cycling hasn't cancelled everything yet. British cycling has through/until June as well as UCI. Seeing a lot of flak generated towards the USOC. "Why do we spend so much on this. The athletes don't even get anything really" kind of stuff.
Dirty Kanza pushed back into August...killing any normal race's chance of staying alive in August. Tour of America's Dairyland sent out a survey to ask when to reschedule or if people just want to see it cancelled. I voted cancelled because they would be rescheduling it for August as well. It will be interesting to see what happens to USA Cycling through all of this.