I am a 3rd year Internal Medicine resident in a large hospital on the east coast and I will be starting Infectious Disease fellowship this July.
This thing is the real deal, while as with most diseases it appears to be far worse in the elderly, I have seen young people intubated and doing poorly too.
We are seeing a large influx of (fever, dry cough, myalgias, SOB) in our ED, the hospital I work in just created a coronavirus critical care unit, the rooms are negative pressure, and over the last 4-5 days it has filled up and everyone in there is intubated. Some of them are under 50.
Most of the doctors and nurses in the hospital are worried that we too are going to get it, we are dangerously low on PPE and the equipment that we do have is of very poor quality anyway, some of the intensivists are taking
prophylactic Hydroxychloroquine....
Now residents are being sent home early, we have cancelled our clinics, all med students rotations are cancelled, no visitors are allowed in the hospital so the corridors are deserted, the lunch room is closed, etc....
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apocalypse-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597How much, how often? 1000 mg/day? Just curious since MSN ran a piece with a sensational headline:
...as if drugs were prescribed in gram doses instead of milligrams.