This post will answer these questions:
- If I get sick and recover can I get sick again?
- Am I immune from re-infection forever?
- How do I know if I’m immune?
When am I immune?
I want a new drug!
This post will answer these questions:
- What medication should I take if I’m home with the coronavirus?
- Is ibuprofen dangerous?
- Are there any cures?
- Does the malaria drug chloroquine work for the coronavirus?
- What about hydroxychloroquine?
Why I'm Afraid
This post will answer these questions:
- What is so terrifying about COVID-19?
- Why should I care?
- How could this affect me or my loved ones?
How this coronavirus makes you sick
This post will answer these questions:
- How does the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 get into cells of the body?
- What symptoms does the coronavirus cause?
- Why does it cause those symptoms?
- What is the time course of COVID-19?
- How do I know if I’m one of the people with severe COVID-19 disease?
What is quarantine?
This post will answer the questions:
- Who should isolate?
- How should I isolate to prevent spread of COVID0-19?
- Why do I have to stay quarantined for 14 days?
- Why should I isolate at all and how does that prevent spread of COVID-19?
Fortunately, I’m not feeling so bad today. Robitussin DM allowed me to sleep relatively well and I am functional with tylenol but I am still in quarantine. Interestingly, the word “quarantine” originates from quarantena, the Venetian language form, meaning “forty days”. This is due to the 40-day isolation of ships and people before they were allowed to enter Venice practiced as a measure of disease prevention.
Continue reading “What is quarantine?”How is the coronavirus transmitted?
This post will answer these questions:
- How is this the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 transferred?
- How do I get infected with COVID-19?
- Can I go to the grocery store?
- What’s the most important steps I can take to protect myself and my family from this coronavirus?
- Should I tell people I’m sick If I have COVID-19? What will they think?
So the test was positive but no need to panic. Last night was not the greatest. I’m not so sick, but a pleasant night’s sleep it was not. I had some chills and body aches and a dry hacking cough that kept me up most of the night, but I made it through. It feels like I have a mild case of the flu. Today, the acetaminophen (1000mg every 6 hours) made a big difference and I was functional. At least I was as functional as a man can be while a prisoner in his own basement.
Continue reading “How is the coronavirus transmitted?”The Testing Problem
Questions answered in this post:
- Who should get tested for COVID-19?
- When should I get tested if at all?
- Why not get tested?
Could it be?
Day 1. Well actually today is day 2. Or really it’s day 6. I guess it doesn’t matter. For the past week, I have been the attending physician at the ICU in my hospital. We have mostly been waiting for this thing to hit. Everyone is a bit on edge. There are many PUIs (persons under investigation), most of whom are longshots, and none that have turned positive.
Continue reading “Could it be?”My COVID Journey
It’s clear that the people with the chronic conditions caused by obesity and those who are confined to nursing homes because of chronic sedentary neglect are at the highest risk. I started this blog several years ago to help my patients with weight loss (as you can see from the other posts), but right now I sit at the beginning of this insane time and I’m right at the front of it all waiting for the onslaught. I work as an ICU doctor and, based on all the reports, this disease puts lots of people in the ICU.
My COVID Journey 