Yes if you are out of control...it might be just wasting time. Just do body counts...those are somewhat accurate...at least in the ballpark.
New Zealand has had its first cases in 100 days. They don't know where it came from but suspect that it came in a freight of frozen meat from the US. The question is now whether the virus can survive freezing and it looks like it can. My thoughts are that if you can freeze an embryo and have it viable why can't you freeze a virus and have it survive.
Suspicion that the return of coronavirus to New Zealand is linked to imported frozen food packaging follows similar incidents reported in China this week. China temporarily blocked imports of Norwegian salmon after its sale in a Beijing market was linked to an outbreak in June.The authorities in the eastern city of Yantai said on Tuesday that coronavirus had been detected on the packaging of imported frozen seafood from Ecuador. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of China’s Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, has said the virus can survive on the surface of frozen food for up to three months...https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-new-zealand-cases-linked-to-cold-storage-centre
Well now they're telling us not to go to the dentist something I need to do and have been doing. How do you bob and weave in a dentist's office? https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/going-to-the-dentist-experts-areas-low-covid19-transmission-144548393.html
There is no way the US could do this. We've got no idea where the virus is coming from. It is just out there. Walking down the street you're just weaving and bobbing and praying it doesn't get you.
The coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more than 10 times the rate of people in the state as a whole.Yet their death rate from Covid-19 is far lower, just 1.3 percent, as compared with 2.1 percent in Arizona. Epidemiologists have a hopeful theory about what led to this startling result: Intensive contact tracing on the reservation likely enabled teams that included doctors to find and treat gravely ill people before it was too late to save them.A crucial tool has been a simple, inexpensive medical device: an oximeter that, clipped to a finger, detected dangerously low blood oxygen levels in people who often didn’t even realize they were seriously ill. . . .The coronavirus can impair the lungs in quiet, almost unnoticeable ways. People may not be gasping for breath, one of the classic signs of low oxygen levels, but the contact tracers often found their levels were perilously low. Without supplemental oxygen, these people risked permanent organ damage and death.That led to a new strategy, Dr. Close said: “Contact tracing is a moderate end in itself, but the primary objective is to identify the high-risk individual” — those in grave danger from lack of oxygen. The team visits patients risking serious illness every day, and the moment their blood oxygen levels drop, they are taken to the hospital for oxygen therapy.At the same time, the teams made another discovery. In the homes of coronavirus patients, the contact tracers noticed family members who did not look healthy. Often the signs were subtle, but the doctors, who know so many of the residents, recognized changes in complexion or energy levels.The doctors asked family members who looked ill to take a brief walk around the room, or into the yard and back, with an oxygen monitor clipped to their fingers. Over and over, they saw the same thing — people who had oxygen levels so low they should be gasping for air. Yet they showed none of the expected symptoms.
The Times article referred to the ongoing situation in New Zealand, not the USA. Good guest piece in The Economist. Free to read, though you may need to register. Link title is self explanatory.https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/08/10/nicholas-christakis-on-fighting-covid-19-by-truly-understanding-the-virus
By not going if it's just for routine work like cleaning.
Intriguing report in the New York Times today about how medical teams at the Fort Apache Amerindian reservation in Arizona are using contact tracing not simply to alert individuals who are at risk of infection, but also to discover others who are already infected but are unaware of it, and may require medical intervention to minimize the damage to their lungs.The initial findings of the Fort Apache team have been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (PDF).
The point is the danger is higher at a dentist regardless of the reason you go. So when I go to fix a cavity I have or install a crown I need, it's riskier than going to a heart specialist.
You are at risk just sitting at home and getting your food delivered to you. It's all about mitigating your risks. Only you can decide if getting your teeth fixed outweighs the risk of getting Covid.I personally skipped my yearly cleaning back in July...can wait until Covid is under control. I've also skipped going out to restaurants as the risk / reward is to high for my likings.
I can't go out to restaurants until I get my teeth fixed.
Probably depends on who the heart specialist has been hanging around with.
My next "visit" in a week with my heart doctor will be on the phone. Seems kinda silly, doesn't it?
Did you get blood work done so you can discuss that? If not, he will probably advise you on your diet and exercise. Cardiologist are big on diet and exercise. I suspect he will tell you to lay off the steaks and lamb chops, and to get more exercise. Don't tell him about the Hagen Das in the freezer. Surely you know that sitting around the house isn't helpful to heart health. It is also a recipe for needing a psychiatrist, or so I've read. The real problem with cardiologists is that after a visit you feel like you have just been chastised by your mother for sneaking cookies out of the cookie jar. Of course, a psychiatrist is just the ticket to help you work that out.
