" I miss my daughter... I cannot die." Just interviewed 1 of the first #COVID19 patients in NJ

[kpete]

Last edited Wed Mar 11, 2020, 04:39 PM - Edit history (2)

He says he went to the ER at Hackensack University Medical Center March 1st with obvious symptoms that should have triggered the #coronavirus protocol. Instead he was kept in the ER for four days, not properly isolated, often dealing with scared nurses. (more)



The patient, who doesn’t have an additional risk factors, says he got worse as a result, and was finally put in isolation on day 5, but did not receive best practices/treatments proven to be working in China until day 8, March 9th. He is still insolation to this day. (more)


By the way, this patient is more knowledgeable than most on this because he is from China and plugged into that medical community. He has not been there in three years and contracted #coronavirus here through community spread. (more)



The patient’s family, including a nearly two-year-old daughter, self-isolated without government intervention. They do not have symptoms. Proper 14-day tracing of his movements has still not been done to this day. (more)



After or formal interview we texted a little bit and among the things he said that caught me, especially as a new father: “I miss my daughter… I cannot die.”

This is an objectively unnerving story, and speaks to the need to hold those in power accountable.



A special thank you to an old college friend
@pulte
for linking me and James so I could share his story.


Our interview will air on
@PIX11News
at 5:30pm



Thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HenryRosoff/status/1237780050759561225

[Coventina]

1. But, DUers keep saying the young & healthy are not at risk!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. In my state a person in their 30s with no underlying health problem is in critical condition.

The young and healthy are statistically at less risk, but that doesn't mean they're safe.

[tblue37]

15. And if they don't receive early next practices treatment, they are at risk. Delayed

treatment correlates with the worst outcomes.

[Dem2]

5. 0.2% is not 0%

AGE DEATH RATE

80+ years old 14.8%
70-79 years old 8.0%
60-69 years old 3.6%
50-59 years old 1.3%
40-49 years old 0.4%
30-39 years old 0.2%
20-29 years old 0.2%
10-19 years old 0.2%
0-9 years old no fatalities

0.2% is still 10x higher than the swine flu (0.02%)

[flotsam]

13. This is almost comforting since my age group is 3.6%

But then if you add in diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and multiple hospital stays in the last year for pneumonia, I'm guessing were a bit past 3.6 and drifting close to Russian roulette with a 3 shot revolver...Which leaves me neither resigned to death or panicked but I am worried and edging toward scared.

[cstanleytech]

6. Odd, I don't recall anyone here saying that the young and healthy have no chance of catching it.

About all they do have is a extremely large statistical chance of not dying from it where as the elderly and those with chronic health problems have a statistically greater chance of dying.

[Coventina]

7. Not that they couldn't get it, but that it wouldn't be serious.

I also remember numerous posters mocking the news as the "DU panic du jour."

[Maggiemayhem]

12. I haven't personally seen that here,

But where I live ,almost everyone that comments on a local blog does not believe COVID-19 is serious. In total denial. I have a 29 year old that works at a university and they just decided to go remote. Practice is tomorrow l I am relieved she will not have to deal with students returning from Spring Break. This denial and lack of facts will hurt the country.i have been posting
the numbers everywhere I can. But yes , the risk is lower for young people but not nonexistent.

[tblue37]

16. Just last night the idiot in the WH claimed that "most Americans are at very very low risk." nt

[USALiberal]

8. Less risk is proved!!! nt

[Coventina]

9. .2% fatality rate is still double that of the flu. n/t

[USALiberal]

10. Once again, this has nothing to do with the flu! nt

[Coventina]

11. No, but the DUers that keep downplaying the seriousness of coronavirus

keep saying it's no worse than the flu.

It is at least 10x more deadly than flu, and is 100% (at least) more contagious.

[wryter2000]

14. My impression from listening to the news

Was that children could get it but seldom become seriously ill and don't die of it. Children, not young people. Of course, someone on DU could have gotten it wrong.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Get people talking about their parents/grand parents

I've had some discussions at work with people saying things like, "the young and reasonably healthy probably don't have to worry." I've completely changed their thinking just by mentioning how I am worried about my elderly parents.

Make this personal for them. Everyone has elderly family that they don't want to lose.

[PatSeg]

4. That is so disturbing