A measurement of your blood oxygen is called your oxygen saturation level. It is called a “PaO2” when using a blood gas and “SpO2” when using a pulse oximeter.
A normal reading of SpO2 is typically between 95~100 percent.
You might need to pay attention to your blood oxygen saturation level if your SpO2 readings are below 95 percent and seek help if accompanied with shortness of breath, dizziness, chest pain, headache, or rapid heartbeat.
HomeGuardian-19 App provides blue-tooth integration with an oximeter, helps you monitor your blood oxygen saturation level. We also offer normal values of every body’s metrics inside the app. Feel free to use it.
Ref : healthline, pic : Design of Smart Pulse Oximeter using ATMEGA 328 Microcontroller
The practice of social distancing means staying home and away from others as much as possible to help prevent spread of COVID-19.
It is showed one of the most useful methods to slow down the spread.
0 viewsHow can I get tested if I have symptoms or think I have been exposed to COVID-19?
Date: 2021.02.12
Speak with your healthcare provider first. Your healthcare provider can help determine if you need a test. Sometimes symptoms are mild and can be treated at home. Your healthcare provider will let you know where to get a test, if needed. They will determine the best course of action for your care.
Remember to seek for help when needed.
0 viewsHandwashing Can Stop a Virus—So Why Don’t We Do It?
Date: 2021.02.04
Good hand hygiene, in particular washing your hands, can help decrease virus transmission, but people find it quite hard to wash their hands effectively and consistently.
Perhaps the most effective and sustainable tactic is to make the behavior habitual. It is more likely to proceed automatically to completion once started.
Build new habits by linking washing to existing behaviors, we can take advantage of one of the most effective measures to prevent the spread of viruses.
Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, shares ways to create your own face covering in a few easy steps.
You can find items around the house like an old scarf, a bandana, a hand towel, or an old t-shirt to make your face covering.
Maskup and protect yourself from infection.
Researchers are developing color-changing stickers for masks to detect COVID-19
If the test strip turns a specific color, it means infection molecules are present.
The university says the test would be similar to that of a home pregnancy test, with the test strip having a control line that shows what a positive result will look like. ‘We’re taking what many people are already wearing and repurposing them,’ Jokerst said, ‘so we can quickly and easily identify new infections and protect vulnerable communities.’
0 viewsAvoiding the Three Cs: A Key to Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
Date: 2021.01.18
A key finding of the Japanese government’s retrospective tracing approach is that these three conditions facilitate transmission of the virus.
So if you want to go outdoors, you may need to pay attention to the following instructions to reduce the risk of getting infected.
0 viewsWhy is washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds important?
Date: 2021.01.16
Why is washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds important?
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is wrapped in an envelope of fat.
The layer of fat is dissolved by soap; Washing your hands with soap for 20 seconds is enough for the fat envelope to dissolve and the virus to fall apart, and can no longer infect you or others.
Wash your hands when necessary, and get rid of the virus infection!
We simplified the surgical hand scrub techniques to an easier procedure for your everyday handwashing.
It’s simple to learn and memorable with the mnemonic phrase, try it~
Knowing the key timing to wash hands can help you avoid taking germs or viruses to your mouth.
Maintain good handwashing habits is the most effective and cheap way to keep yourself safe from infection.
Ref : Upland recreation and community services division
How to keep viruses out of your home after coming back from outdoors?We arranged suggestions and guidelines from several organizations listed below. We hope this will be useful for you.
Ref : CDC(centers of disease control and prevent), Healthline, OrlandoHealth
When and how children should wear a mask?
This video shows you how to decide while facing a maskup problem with your child, and not all circumstances should a child wear masks.
It is essential to keep your children safe from infection.
≦ 5 year old: mask not required, unless the child is sick
6~11 year old: can wear mask under adult’s supervision
≧ 12 year old: wear mask as adults
A great chart from Texas Medical Association!
It tells you which activity or going to what place will have a higher possibility of getting infected. During this highly infectious timing, we can decrease the frequency of going to high-risk places to protect ourselves.
What can you do while quarantine at home?We organized information from WHO and CDC and provide you simple advice to follow. You are welcomed to share this information with anyone in need.
How do we clean our house to stop the spread of virus, and keep it clean?
1.Clean high-touch surfaces
2.Wear disposable gloves while cleaning
3.Use soap, disinfectant or 75% alcohol-based sanitizer to do the cleaning 4.Keep the house/room with good airflow
Keep your home clean and stop the spread of infection.
Ref : CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Your immune system helps to defend you against disease-causing microorganisms. It plays an important role. But sometimes, the immune function cannot perform its normal functions. We can boost our immune system by choosing a healthy lifestyle, and we can also strengthen our immunity by eating the right food.
– A diet rich in fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables contain key vitamins, including vitamin A.C.E.
– Eat enough protein: Protein-rich foods also provide amino acids to build essential protein in the human body, such as meat, beans, soy products, and dairy products.
– Include fermented foods: Such as yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, miso, and kimchi, which can help beneficial bacteria to multiply in the intestines.
– Some spices: For example, ginger, garlic, turmeric. They have the function of antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant to protect cells.
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COVID-19 is transmitted primarily through secretions from the respiratory system such as saliva and droplets, which expel when a person cough, sneeze, or talk.
So the essential thing to protect yourself and the others is to block the direct pathway to the respiratory system, and that is: your mouth and your nose.
NYC Says Vaccines May Be Available to All Soon as Late April
Date: 2021.03.07
New York City could be able to offer Covid-19 vaccines to all residents by late April, the city’s health commissioner said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg News.
New York City has administered more than 2 million doses within the first few months of the vaccination campaign, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker. It will need to give many more to immunize its 8.3 million residents.
Three Most Dangerous Underlying Conditions for COVID-19
Date: 2021.02.28
– Obesity
– Diabetes (with complications such as organ damage)
– High blood pressure (with complications such as heart damage or kidney disease)
Knowing how much an underlying condition raises your risk can help you make more informed decisions about protecting your health.
3 coronavirus vaccines so far seem to prevent COVID-19. Here’s how their efficacy compares to vaccines for flu, measles, and more.
Date: 2021.02.25
Not all vaccines are equally effective. Some, like the seasonal flu vaccine, hover below 60%. Others, like the polio vaccine, are almost 100% effective.
Here’s how the three coronavirus vaccine frontrunners compare to four existing vaccines.
Pfizer COVID Vaccines Delivering Promised Rate of Protection, Israeli Data Shows
Date: 2021.02.07
Statistical model from theoretical physics in Israel finds that 28 days after the second shot the COVID vaccine is 95 percent effective. The data from Israel is very similar to the conclusions reached in Pfizer’s own Stage III clinical trials.
How much of the population will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to slow this pandemic
Date: 2021.01.28
How much of the population will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to slow this pandemic
Once a population reaches a point of collective immunity where the disease is no longer likely to spread, it reaches the “herd immunity threshold.”
The estimate for COVID-19 is that roughly 50 to 80% of the population will need to be vaccinated to reach the herd immunity threshold. (In contrast, the flu needs between 33 and 44% vaccinated to reach the herd immunity threshold.)
It’s a safer place to live when you have a high vaccination rate and we hope that everyone will take the vaccine when they’re eligible to receive it.
Mass testing is a rapid test involving a handheld kit that results in about 20 minutes.
Currently, most people can only have a test if they already have symptoms.
But the government would like to roll out mass testing in areas with high infection rates.
The flow chart below displays the process to complete a COVID-19 mass testing.
If you discovered unusual symptoms or body recordings while using HomeGuardian-19, you could also get the test from health facilities.
Covid vaccine: Pfizer says ’94% effective in over-65s
Date: 2021.01.19
does Pfizer’s RNA vaccine work?
RNA is a kind of code that tells cells what to build, so Pfizer’s RNA vaccine contains part of the COVID-19 virus’s RNA, which will be injected into the human body.
This fragmented RNA segment will then enter a human’s normal cell, and unharmed particles of COVID-19 protein will then be made out.
These unharmed COVID-19 protein particles will trigger our immune system to make special bullets— called the “antibodies” to fight against the virus.
So after vaccinated, when you encountered a COVID-19 virus infection, your body will have the right weapon to eliminate them!
Health experts agree that the best way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to vaccinate our way out of it.Unfortunately, Americans’ willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine is waning, even as a punishing third wave claims well over 1,000 U.S. lives each day.
Women drop from 69.5% to only 50.6%
Man drop from 79.1% to only 62.3%
This is a situation worth considering, and should find out what makes people unwilling to take vaccine.
About 43,000 people have had the vaccine, with no safety concerns
As a RNA vaccine, it uses a tiny fragment of the virus’s genetic code. This starts making part of the virus inside the body, which the immune system recognizes as foreign and starts to attack.
RNA vaccine has never been approved for use in humans before.
60-70% of the population must be immune to stop the virus spreading easily(herd immunity)
Before getting vaccinated, we should all take action to protect ourselves, and keep healthy.
First COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer BioNTech is arranged on Monday(Dec. 14), front-line health workers will be receiving the first dose.
Eventually, as supplies increase, more priority groups, such as essential workers and the elderly, will be vaccinated.
Timelines of all vaccines’ stage of development
You can find all of the COVID-19 vaccines’ development stages in this webpage. Take a look! https://www.covid-19vaccinetracker.org/ Ref : FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute
COVID‐19 diagnosis and management: a comprehensive review
Date: 2021.02.26
How is the process that doctors treat a COVID-19 patient?
1. Doctors use laboratory results or clinical symptoms to diagnose the patient.
2. Quarantine will be started for at least 14 days.
4. Doctors will give medication depend on the patient’s condition. For example like Remdesivir to slow down the virus growth.
5. Other supportive treatment to help the patient’s immune system overcome the virus
6. When the symptoms are relieved, the patient will receive a laboratory test again to check whether the virus is eliminated.
*This is a summary of COVID-19 management; any process may change base on the patient’s clinical situation.
UPDATE Possible major breakthrough on treating Covid 19 patients: detecting silent hypoxia early on.
Date: 2021.02.10
Many COVID-19 infected patients suffer from hypoxia and will accept oxygen supply by ventilator.
Here is the simple picture of how a mechanical ventilator works, saving many lives of the COVID-19 patients.
Most people who have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recover completely within a few weeks. But some people — even those who had mild versions of the disease — continue to experience symptoms after their initial recovery.
COVID-19 symptoms can sometimes persist for months. The virus can damage the lungs, heart and brain, which increases the risk of long-term health problems.
The condition has been called post-COVID-19 syndrome or “long COVID-19.”
The potentially long-lasting problems from COVID-19 make it even more important to reduce the spread of the disease by following precautions such as wearing masks, avoiding crowds and keeping hands clean.
COVID research updates: What makes a person with COVID more contagious? Hint: not a cough
Date: 2021.02.05
COVID research updates: What makes a person with COVID more contagious? Hint: not a cough
The amount of SARS-CoV-2 in a person’s body is a major factor in determining whether they are likely to transmit the virus to others, according to a study of nearly 300 infected people and their close contacts.
Those with a relatively high ‘viral load’, a measure of the amount of virus in the body, were much more likely to pass on the virus than were those with a low viral load. The findings suggest that tracing the contacts of people with high viral loads is especially important, the authors say.
Ref : nature, Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 clusters in Catalonia, Spain: a cohort study
Variants are a normal occurrence with viruses. The concern with the COVID-19 mutations is they may be more transmissible.
But what exactly is a variant? Will vaccines protect against them?
Here is an edited video from KHOU11 news, the question is answered inside the video.
COVID-19: Home Pulse Oximetry Could Be Game Changer, Says ER Doc
Date: 2021.02.01
“Everybody’s coming in too late.”
Clinicians have been fighting COVID-19 wrong, says an emergency medicine physician who has been on the front line of the COVID-19 surge in New York City.
Silent hypoxia, body shows no emergent sign or symptom while lacking of oxygen supply. This might cause delay of treatment and resulting in poor outcome.
To avoid silent hypoxia, we provide a total self-health care solution, combined HomeGuardian-19 app, and monitor device to record your health status. You can detect the drop in blood oxygen level by tracking the trend chart in-app and getting help on time.
You can monitor not only blood oxygen levels but also symptoms and body temperature. Get secure immediately, and own your personal healthcare-kit.
COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?
Date: 2021.01.31
COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?
The WHO updated its guidance on 20 October, saying that the virus can spread “after infected people sneeze, cough on, or touch surfaces, or objects, such as tables, doorknobs and handrails”.
A WHO spokesperson told Nature that “there is limited evidence of transmission through fomites. Nonetheless, fomite transmission is considered a possible mode of transmission, given consistent finding of environmental contamination, with positive identification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the vicinity of people infected with SARS-CoV-2.”
The WHO adds that “disinfection practices are important to reduce the potential for COVID-19 virus contamination”.
For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as “long Covid” is having a debilitating effect on people’s lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
“The uniqueness of the way the virus attacks the host and the different ways it then alters the way cells behave seem to be both giving people more severe infection than other viruses and persistent symptoms.”
Chris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from monitoring blood oxygen through oximeter.
He was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.
“I don’t mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,” he told Inside Health.
His oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.
At this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.
“My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s.”
Studies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.
Chris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.
“I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.”
To aware of potential existed silent hypoxia, get treated on time, we provided oximeter to monitor your blood oxygen level. Unlike usual oximeters, the oximeters we provide are directly connected to our HomeGuardian-19 app by Bluetooth, you can record blood oxygen level into the app and get continuous monitor trend of your blood oxygen status.
Get aware of danger before it happens, and be safe in this pandemic.
Worldwide, 31 confirmed cases of covid-19 reinfection have been recorded, although that could be an underestimate from delays in reporting and resource pressures in the ongoing pandemic.
Most of the SARS-CoV-2 reinfections that have been reported have been milder than first encounters with the virus, although some have been more harmful—and two people have died as a result.
“If you’ve recovered from SARS-CoV-2, it’s not an excuse to forget about social distancing and not to wear a mask,” says Sanicas, “We know that you can have it twice.” And that means you can get it again and pass it on.
A cheap over-the-counter oximeter device was my saving grace as I fought the coronavirus. It can flag dangerous downturns.
Date: 2021.01.12
“I wish everyone had one oximeter so they could monitor themselves, then maybe we’d have fewer people come in hospital.”the doctor said.
Silent hypoxia recently has made the focus because of its large incidence of this occurring in patients with COVID-19. The term “silence” comes from the patients who are hypoxic (their blood oxygen level is lower than the normal level), but they do not appear short of breath. They are not gasping. They are also not complaining of feeling air hunger or looking uncomfortable.
According to the World Health Organization, healthy individuals with normal lungs, breathing air at sea level, will have an oxygen saturation of 95%. If the oxygen saturation is 94% or lower, the patient is hypoxic and quickly needs treatment. A saturation of less than 90% is a clinical emergency.
By the time patients have noticeable trouble breathing and present dangerously low oxygen levels, Silent hypoxia progresses rapidly to respiratory failure, and patients will die suddenly or require a ventilator.
The initial stage of Covid pneumonia can be determined earlier by screening low oxygen saturation levels. The pulse oximeter can help people go to the hospital earlier and prevent symptoms worsen when they notice that their oxygen levels are declining.
COVID-19 symptoms you need to aware of, e.g., cough, fever, and new loss of taste or smell.
WATCH OUT Emergency warning signs, and seek medical care immediately if someone has symptoms listed below:
– Trouble breathing
– Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
– New confusion
– Inability to wake or stay awake
– Bluish lips or face
Stay alert and protect you and your family from danger.
Ref : CDC, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
What are the greatest risk factors of COVID-19 mortality?
Date: 2020.12.28
If I catch a cold, how do I know this is COVID-19 or… just a flu?
John Hopkins Medicine, one of the world’s most trusted health care and research organization, tells you how to DIFFERENTIATE these two diseases and how you can PREVENT both.
Ref : Since the video is made in November, the vaccine’s information is not correct now in 2021. We have FDA approved COVID-19 vaccine now.
Why should we self-quarantine for 14 days?
According to the study published on Annals of Internal Medicine, 95% of quarantined people displays symptoms within 2~14 days, so self quarantine for 14 days can filter out most of the incubated COVID-19 people.
It’s important to keep a good mood while quarantine at home, you can read a couple of books or chat with friends online or by phone.
We also will be here with you, Stay happy~
Ref : CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Annals of Internal Medicine
What the data say about asymptomatic COVID infections
Date: 2020.12.19
Now, evidence suggests that about one in five infected people will experience no symptoms, and a meta-analysis published last month, which included 13 studies involving 21,708 people, calculated the rate of asymptomatic presentation to be 17%.
Although asymptomatic people will transmit the virus to significantly fewer people than someone with symptoms, these people should continue to use measures that reduce viral spread, such as social distancing, hand hygiene and wearing a mask.
To protect yourself and the others, maskup and hand-washing are still necessary.
How do we distinguish the symptoms of COVID-19, flu, and allergy?
Date: 2020.12.17
Winter has come. In this COVID-19 pandemic season, we must aware of COVID-19 and influenza at the same time.
But what is confusing is that COVID-19 and flu have similar symptoms, which often makes people unsure whether they have COVID-19 or flu.
How do we distinguish the symptoms of COVID-19 and flu?
-The main symptoms of the coronavirus are fever, tiredness, cough, and shortness of breath.
-The flu has symptoms similar to the novel coronavirus, such as fever and body aches, but influenza rarely cause shortness of breath.
In the symptom self-check sheet of the HomeGuardia-19 app, the common symptoms of COVID-19 are summarized according to medical guidelines and reference. As long as you answer the questions on the list, you can simply distinguish symptoms of COVID-19 and continue to aware of changes in symptoms.
Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19
Date: 2020.12.15
COVID-19 can transmit from person to person by three major routes, and can be prevented by the right method:
1.Airborne → Social distancing/Quarantine
2.Droplets → Facial masking
3.Contact transmission → Hand washing
Ref : PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
COVID-19: could mutations to the coronavirus make it more dangerous?
Date: 2020.12.14
Mutations to a virus are common in the course of a pandemic. And scientists have discovered thousands to Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus – the virus that causes COVID-19.
Scientists believe one mutation called D614G may have made it easier for coronavirus to be transmitted between humans. As cases of people becoming reinfected with COVID-19 start to be seen, there are concerns that this is a result of new variants.
Could we be hearing more about other mutations in the future?
COVID-19: Home Pulse Oximetry Could Be Game Changer, Says ER Doc
Date: 2020.12.14
Everybody’s coming in too late.’
Clinicians have been fighting COVID-19 wrong, says an emergency medicine physician who has been on the front line of the COVID-19 surge in New York City.
Silent hypoxia, body shows no emergent sign or symptom while lacking of oxygen supply. This might cause delay of treatment and resulting in poor outcome.
Ref : COVID-19: Home Pulse Oximetry Could Be Game Changer, Says ER Doc – Medscape – Apr 24, 2021.
Life after COVID: Healthcare, Mobility, Travel and the Home
Date: 2021.02.22
COVID-19 has changed our life dramatically and will keep on affecting us in the future. Here are the pictures of predictions of how future life will become.
“This pandemic is a turning point in history, a profound inflection point.”
1 in 3 adults are depressed or anxious due to COVID-19
Date: 2021.02.19
COVID-19 continues to pose serious threats to public health worldwide, and interventions such as lockdowns, quarantine, and social distancing are having an adverse impact on mental well-being.
The general public and healthcare professionals need to be aware of the high burden of psychological distress during the pandemic.
Patients need to be encouraged to seek help, and access mental health counseling services with appropriate referrals
Vaccine nationalism means that poor countries will be left behind
Date: 2021.02.14
A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts that rich countries with access to proven vaccines—including America, Britain and most of the European Union—will manage to inoculate their most vulnerable citizens by mid-March.
While in some countries, coverage won’t be widespread until 2023.
As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay
Date: 2021.02.11
Epidemiologists have long warned: The pathogen will circulate for years, or even decades, leaving society to coexist with Covid-19 much as it does with other endemic diseases like flu, measles, and HIV.
Thomas Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said: “Going through the five phases of grief, we need to come to the acceptance phase that our lives are not going to be the same.”
If new COVID variants become dominant in U.S., re-infections likely, says Fauci
Date: 2021.02.03
If new, more contagious variants become dominant in the United States, a high rate of Americans who have already suffered through a case of COVID-19 will likely get re-infected.
Therefore, “you need to get vaccinated when it becomes available as quickly and as expeditiously as possible throughout the country,” Fauci told CNN on Monday.
At the same time, widespread vaccination could help keep the new variants from becoming more dominant.
“Viruses cannot mutate if they don’t replicate.”
Maintain good protection measures, and monitor your symptoms with our HomeGuardian-19 app to help slow down the virus’s mutation.
Now, with multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates available and more on the horizon, life post-vaccine is imminent for those in countries that can afford it. The dangers of vaccine nationalism may mean that poorer countries will go unvaccinated until 2022, 2023 or even beyond, by which time the threat of new variants – given the opportunity to spread and potentially be resistant to current vaccines is likely to grow.
To reduce the number of strains emerging, a zero-COVID strategy is the best course of action: by limiting community transmission. Even if a more harmful strain were to then evolve, it would eventually die out – as SARS did in the early 2000s.
This can be achieved by the ‘Swiss cheese analogy’: If one intervention equates to a slice of cheese, while each intervention has imperfect holes, the more layers there are, the better the protection.
There is no doubt that getting vaccinated protects the recipient. Still, several infectious-disease researchers contacted by The New York Times cautioned that it would be months before enough people in the United States will have gotten the shots to allow for normal life to begin again.
Only then will the number of people with immunity — those who have had the disease and recovered, plus those who have been vaccinated — be large enough to take the wind out of the pandemic.
Social distancing, masking and other measures should remain in place until late July, “and that may be optimistic,” said Dr. Shaman. Otherwise, yet another resurgence of the virus is possible.
By using our HomeGuardian-19 app, you can follow your symptoms and physical measures correctly and wisely.
All symptoms-checker and physical measures tracker contents are based on CDC guidelines and medical research from NEJM and JAMA.
Before the Dawn of the plague, we should be more cautious and alert.
COVID-19 cases have been on the decline in 36 states and territories in last week, group says
Date: 2021.01.19
After several bleak weeks of sickness and death in the U.S., figures from the COVID Tracking Project indicate that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel in the current surge of COVID-19.
The only states and territories where new cases of COVID-19 are on the rise are Maine, Virginia and Wyoming.
Though daily case numbers remain extremely high at 213,707, the downward trend indicates that the current surge — which health experts suspect might have been caused by holiday travel — may be coming to an end.
America is tuning out the coronavirus at the peak of its destruction
Date: 2021.01.15
The big picture: It’s not even sufficient to say the pandemic is “still going on,” as if it’s a fire that hasn’t finished burning out. The pandemic is raging. Its deadliest and most dangerous days are happening right now. And it keeps getting worse. But at the same time Americans are taking the virus less seriously, it is becoming more serious.
This will keep getting worse before it gets better.
Olympics: 80 per cent of Japanese want Tokyo Games cancelled or delayed
Date: 2021.01.11
About 80 percent of people in Japan say this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled or delayed as worries mount about a record surge in coronavirus cases across the country, a Kyodo News poll showed on Sunday.
The survey found 35 percent want the games to be cancelled and 45 percent favored another delay.
Latest update:Tokyo confirmed 1,219 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the metropolitan government said, surpassing the record for a Monday of 884 set just last week.
‘I went to the gates of hell’: COVID-19 victim given 1% chance at life tells emotional survival story
Date: 2021.01.08
Ten weeks in the hospital. Four weeks in a coma. Less than a 1% shot of surviving.
One of the first in the Bay Area to face the full wrath of the coronavirus.
But numbers and statistics don’t even begin to do justice to the story of Mike Arevalo’s survival.
“I went to the gates of hell and came back,” he told us when he finally got out of the hospital in May.
He still doesn’t know exactly where he got coronavirus in March, but he assumes he contracted it on the job as a California Lottery representative. This was before we knew how to really protect ourselves from the virus: back then, there was no masking, distancing or temperature and symptom checks.
Before he knew it, the man who puts family before everything else in life unwittingly transmitted a deadly virus to his wife, daughter, son-in-law and grandson. They all live in the same house, and the virus tore through them one-by-one.
When he was in the hospital, he says doctors tried “everything under the sun, the kitchen sink and hydroxychloroquine” to keep him alive. Nine months later, he’s what some call a “long-hauler,” still feeling the wear and tear from his fight with COVID-19.
“I do have some cognitive fog still, you know, and even just breathing sometimes is hard because I have some lung damage.”
He chokes back tears as he tells us how grateful he is to still be alive, how he’s fighting every day to keep a promise to his daughter – to stay alive long enough to help raise his grandson.
We shared this story with you and hoped to help those who are not aware of the importance of fighting against COVID-19.
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COVID-19 ‘ate her through,’ say parents of 18-year-old killed within days of contracting virus
Date: 2021.01.06
A Chicago family is mourning the loss of their 18-year-old daughter to COVID-19.
Sarah Simental’s parents said she had no other health problems, and still, the virus took her life at such a young age.
COVID-19 killed the high school senior in a matter of days. Her mother said Sarah’s headache turned into a sore throat and body aches on December 23, so the family drove Sarah to Silver Cross Hospital.
Once there, doctors immediately noticed a drop in Sarah’s blood oxygen levels.
This is not uncommon among COVID-19 patients, though it is quite serious. It’s known as “Silent hypoxia”, a condition in which blood oxygen levels in the body dip abnormally low, even though they appear to be breathing normally.
It can be monitored closely with a pulse oximeter, a device that made headlines earlier this year for its ability to detect serious cases of COVID-19 at home.
On Christmas, Sarah was airlifted to the University of Chicago hospital for more specialized care but died the following day, on December 26. Her official cause of death, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, was acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to coronavirus.
They are sharing their heartbreaking story in hopes that it may save others.
“There are people out there that don’t take it seriously,” Deborah continued. “Her dad and I are here to tell you — that it is real.”
Emergency medical service workers in America face a daunting winter. The number of COVID-19 cases is surging as is the number of deaths caused by the virus.
But a good news is they have one more defense now: the vaccine.
“If you want to be a progressive provider, you believe in evidence-based science. Taking the vaccine shows faith in the science.”
p.s: Happy new year~ and hope the 2021 will be better than 2021.
Covid-19 now kills more than 1 American every minute. And the rate keeps accelerating as the death toll tops 300,000
Date: 2020.12.27
COVID-19 infection rate and mortality rate keep rising during this winter.
Wear mask and keep yourself safe from asymptomatic COVID-19 infected person. At this unprecedented time, we are here to help, and we can all overcome the storm together.
Stay healthy.
