Someone just told me that a PRMC employee told them that PRMC has no testing kits for the virus. Supposedly they are putting anyone who comes in with the symptoms in quarantine until kits are available. Have you heard this? Do any doctors/hospitals in the area have the ability to test for it?
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Lack of testing kits is a problem nationwide and no one seems to know when we're getting them.
I heard from my son’s pediatrician that Lab Corp has testing kits.
My cardiologist informed me that he had no "right" to request that anyone be tested for the virus. There is a lot of misinformation here.
It's a little borring.
Only the elites, Hollyweird and Government employees get testing, the rest of us are not entitled to it.
Let's talk about PRMC. All departments have been directed to cut 2% from their annual budget. This is 100% a result of acquiring Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. That piece of crap has been losing money for years. Now PRMC has to bear the brunt of Nanticoke. How screwed up is that?!!!!
The Board of PRMC recently approved Nanticoke admission to the PRMC Pension plan AND gave them credit for their years of service at Nantocoke prior to the acquisition
How stupid is that?!!!! That must have been huge $'s. Why would anyone think that is ok?!!!!! What the hell is the board thinking?!!!! So stupid!!!!!!!!!
Some one told me that someone told them they have test. But don’t have kits.
I over heard a conversation and they are ONLY testing for the Wuhan flu and not for corona19
Here's a test for ya...
Eat any bats lately? If not go home.
My family went there weeks ago with symptoms and they wouldn’t test for it, they said theres not much of a difference between this and the flu and that other strands of the flu have been more deadly than the corona virus. It’s no difference, those with compromised immune systems, the elderly and those very young are at more of a risk. This is all hype!
How was South Korea able to test so many citizens and we can’t seem to test any?
Business Insider /
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3%3famp
South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US
I heard that the only test kits are in Baltimore at the department of health and NO hospitals have kits.
6:13, ITS THE SAME THING
Republicans are racing to figure out how to give Americans just enough healthcare to stop a pandemic but no more
You can’t believe any information coming from any Korea, China, Iran etc.
The United States has outsourced almost everything to China and Asia. This is a lesson learned. Let's bring our essential manufacturing BACK to the USA. Trump has been right on this, whether you like him or not.
It is outrageous that most of our medicine, masks and other medical items come from China. What leverage that gives them over us!
Well McConnel just trashed a bill calling for free testing so
Obviously you do not have access to the “rest of the story”
I heard a case confirmed at PRMC this evening.
It’s still under the state health department’s responsibility to do testing. The hospital contacts the health Dept if they suspect COVID 19 and then it’s the health Dept that decides to test the patient or not.
You do know that what you call Wuhan flu is corona virus, properly named COVID 19, right?
That is why they call it NANTICROKE. I wouldn’t let them treat an ingrown toenail l had a concussion and was taken their. I was in a car accident. The doctor ask me twice how long l had been having these headaches. I said the minute the ford pick up ran the light at 404 and they got worse talking to you. The EMT busted out laughing. The rest was just a blur
If you have fever headaches diarrhea blurred vision motor-skill issue. Don’t worry you do not need a test to confirm the obvious. You are in fact from Wicomico County OMG my ribs hurt. Now that right there is funny.
340 million 34 deaths. .oo1 percent.
5:58 pm lmao there are test kits in the Salisbury area and not just for the almighty elite of Salisbury
But I won’t tell you where they are...I know someone who just got tested today
Y’all slay me
Who did u hear it from?
Nurses are saying that only Democrats will get tested, the higher ups hate Trump so much they won't let them test Republicans. They are going to use the voter registration rolls to determine what party a patient belongs to. (in case you all didn't know this, the voter rolls are available thru the FOIA)
South Korea military dictatorship stated they have more test then America. They don’t believe in lying or propaganda.
South Korea has TWICE the number of deaths and 3 times SMALLER then US.
covid 19 place of origin?
8:59 Wuhan China
939 how DARE YOU!!
LabCorp's website says they have plenty of tests. They just have to be ordered by a physician.
Wicomico County Health Department has opened a call center for questions concerning Coronavirus: 410-341-4600 (Monday- Friday).
The CDC has advised anyone who thinks they may have the virus to "call" their physician, or the Hospital ER, or other medical facility and ask how you should proceed with getting tested and/or medical help. No one should walk into any medical facility around other people if you think you have Coronavirus. Call first!
"Of course" the hospital has testing kits for this virus.
They didn't have tests weeks ago in the USA. Obviously this person was lying to you. Yes the symptoms might be similar to the flu but it's infection rate is 2-3 times higher. Whoever said that, it was to calm you down, but you definitely got lied to by a healthcare professional.
Did you happen to read all the crap the dems tried to sneak in there? It should really be a bill addressing the issue at hand. I laughed at it too.
PRMC is too focused on coming up with a new brand and name to feed the egos of the newly minted executives and “system level” directors. That’s where all of the focus is now. They will be getting a new name, ignoring and crapping on over 120 years of history with the Peninsula. They care about their own glory and using this merger as a platform for the CEO to eventually leave and become an executive at an even larger hospital somewhere else. So buying more distressed healthcare entities to chase glory and destruction of the Peninsula name and legacy trumps any community health concerns.
Lol...yes they are a crap organization. Nothing PRMC can do about that
Why would you change the name? That's stupid
What a load of crap. There are basic truths that cannot be debated. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and this was a STUPID decision.
Well it’s absolutely what they told us, my family and I witnessed it first hand. We got referred to our primary care by prmc (who refused to see us before going to the hospital) and it was said that they didnt know why our personal doctors wouldn’t see us in the first place, that there was no need for us to be made to go to the hospital.
Time for PRMC to roll out a new $Campaign to pay for the Nanticroak acquisition
How much is each Board member going to pledge for this fiasco?
Board members? Haha! As usual, they will pressure the employees to donate.
March 13, 2020 at 8:04 AM:
The last place you want a person with corona virus is in a hospital, unless they are critically ill. Nobody in public health services advises going to the hospital if you THINK you have the virus. If you are critically ill, you will be brought to the hospital in an ambulance. If you aren't, stay the hell home in self quarantine until the symptoms go away, which they will in the vast majority of people. Going to the hospital and risking the health and lives of patients there is irresponsible and dangerous. So is not staying home if you have symptoms. Everybody has to do their part. Don't risk everybody else's health and lives just because you have a headache and fever. They can be treated with OTC meds. Many people just don't get it. This thing can be easy to beat, as long as people don't panic, and as long as they don't risk other people with their symptoms. If you THINK you have it, call your primary care doctor, and stay home. That's it. That's all 99% of the people need to do. What not to do? Don't drive around and expose others to your symptoms looking for someone to give you a test. Those people are the ones responsible for the spread of the virus.
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Let's talk about PRMC. All departments have been directed to cut 2% from their annual budget. This is 100% a result of acquiring Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. That piece of crap has been losing money for years. Now PRMC has to bear the brunt of Nanticoke. How screwed up is that?!!!!
March 12, 2020 at 6:01 PM:
And just what the hell does that have to do with test kits?
PRMC has many, many flaws. The Psychiatric Department head psychiatrist is a disgrace for one. Plenty of other quacks too. However, there are good ones there too. They are up against a bad system.
I don't think it is a hospitals responsibility to provide the testing. Testing should be administered away from the hospital. How do you think it would turn out if the hospital was full of wuhan virus? People showing symtoms should be tested and if they have it sent to a quarantine area to receive treatment. Also more people have been murdered in Baltimore than have died of the Wuhan coronavirus so far this year.
March 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM:
Sooo, someone who is a psychiatric patient criticizes the hospital. Like a psychiatric patient can tell the difference between a "quack" and a good doctor. Get the help that you need.
Most psychiatrists are nuttier than their patients.
You are misguided obviously. There was possible coronavirus contact for my family. The primary cares refused to see us and said call the local health department, the health department said call the center for disease control. The center for disease control said you need to go directly to prmc and the center for disease control advised they were notifying prmc for our arrival. Prmc (health professional) were so not concerned with my family “staying the hell home” that they didn’t advise the CDC to tell us to stay home and they accepted us in the main entrance like any other patients, so health professionals clearly were not concerned of putting others “at risk”. Rather they saw us because no one else would, told us that we shouldn’t have been put through such a process because there was no need and sent us home with copays and meds. As for staying home, we couldn’t until we got home, it’s called a vacation where contact occurred and due to having a young child and a spouse with medical
Issues preexisitng, precautions were taken. Stop assuming and get off your soap box by acting like someone did the incorrect thing and that “health services” wouldn’t advise going to the hospital, because that’s exactly what two primary care physician, the health department and the CDC advised. Thanks for your not needed input since you didn’t know the situation in depth.
PRMC started down it current decline 10-20 years ago when decision made to eliminate all input from their physicians . Hospital "administrators" who did not know the community were hired to run PRMC ; physicians were eliminated from decision process. But the physicians knew the community and were ignored.
10:15, having clinical depression, or most other psychiatric illnesses, have nothing to do with intelligence or being able to discern the actions of doctors. You should educate yourself and not promote the very wrong stigma attached to mental illnesses.
The Dems put horrendous pork in the bill that had nothing to do with covid19. Then they push it as the bad repubs don’t care about the people so people like you just believe a headline.
March 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM:
Why were you calling everybody and insisting "to be seen" and putting others at risk? And then riding around and entering buildings and exposing others? You obviously were not critically ill. You just had flu-like symptoms. Instead of bitching at everyone and exposing as many people as you could to your symptoms, why didn't you just stay home and take some OTCs like they recommend? There's no excuse for irresponsible people like you that are so concerned about their non life threatening headache and fever, that they are willing to pass on the illness to one that might not survive it. You can't justify your irresponsibility. You can rationalize, but not justify. If no one was critically ill, you did not belong at the hospital. Some people will never get it. Too dense and self serving, I guess.
March 12, 2020 at 6:15 PM:
You are uninformed. Not all hype. The virus is much more deadly to the elderly than any flu. Quit spreading ignorance. It might be contagious.
March 12, 2020 at 7:37 PM:
You "heard?" That's how rumors start. I ignore what people "hear." It means nothing and is just gossip, until confirmed. You trying to start something?
March 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM:
Your primary care doctor and the health department didn't want you in their offices if you were contagious. At your insistence, they told you to go to the hospital if you insisted on being "seen" by someone. There was no reason to drive around and expose others to the potential virus. And what did the hospital tell you? The same thing I said. Go home and stay home, and take your meds. You did not have to go to a hospital and expose people to your symptoms, just to get some meds and to be told to go home. You still don't get it. It was your self-serving attitude over a headache and fever that put countless others at risk. My "soapbox" is for educating, but some self-serving people have no concern for anyone but themselves, and don't care how many others they infect, or cause to die. And then everybody wonders how it spreads so fast....
March 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM;
Your "excuses" for putting others at risk are worthless. Knowing your "situation" in depth changes nothing. What you did was irresponsible. You cried to everybody until they told you to just go to the hospital so that they could "deal" with you. The doctors did not want you in their offices. Now I'm angry at you for endangering the public with your symptoms, and your childish need to see a doctor. And the hospital told you to go home and stay there until the symptoms are gone for at least two days. You were most likely told that before you insisted on going to the hospital. People like you that are intentionally exposing other people to your symptoms are one of the reasons for the pandemic. You had no real need to know if it was the flu or the virus. There's no cure for either. Whatever it was, you just needed to stay home until you were well. And then people like you want to cry over not being able to get a test. Still didn't get one, did you?
Tell me...where in the constitution or bill of rights is free health care enumerated you jackass.
Nothing at all obviously. However, its a very relevant topic.
What a total load of crap. Doctors are good at treating patient's. They SUCK at running practices or hospitals. Their enormous egos are a huge problem.
What the hell are you talking about?
239 and 150, you both have no common sense. We did not insist on being seen, we were looking for health care advice. While we were apparently spreading this critically bad virus that seems to concern you so much on your internet soap box, we were actually attempting to see what the health care professionals wanted us to do, to attempt to take their recommend precautions for ourselves as others. They wanted us to go directly to the hospital in our local area (PRMC). PRMC even after being notified, didn’t advise the CDC nor my family to shelter in place or to go home, they had us walk in their front doors even after advance notice. You both obviously have no common sense that we did as told and instructed by the very entities in place to protect us. They didn’t want us going home, they wanted us to go to prmc due to the potential contact. PRMC had us enter their front doors and didn’t request a separate entrance to avoid contact, nor did they advise to go home, they instead advised us there that corona was nothing to worry about. The CDC didn’t think so, neither did the health department. So I apologize that the health care advice and guidance that my family relied on (their recommendations) doesn’t suit your skewed view of the assumption that I put people at risk. You both are hilarious or maybe, just maybe, one and the same. I’ll look forward to your upcoming scolding for doing as told by the “professionals”.
251, have fun reading the response under 239. You all are laughable. Keep it coming. It’s fun.
Lol, so someone who takes all recommended steps by the health care facilities are in the wrong? Sure, argue that fact til the end of time. Have fun
It has been here since Nov. In January I got sick and it was diagnosed as "bronchitis". I have had bronchitis before but not like this.
I could not breathe. I kept telling the urgent care doctor, I can not breath. My chest xray showed a white-ish color to my lungs. I had a fever of 102. Albuterol every 4 hours did not help as it usually did and the flu test came back negative. I was sent home, no precautions.
I hear there is a test, that will show the antibodies in your system if you have had it. Someone should be offering that test for free. It is already here. Some have already had it and have been misdiagnosed.
You're bat....crazy.
I have all the symptoms but no fever ... what do I do?
March 13, 2020 at 3:19 PM:
Well, I just can't cure stupidity....stupidity that risks OTHER peoples lives. And so it goes, until everybody is infected. Soon everybody will be on lockdown because of people like you. See how you like it then. I'm glad you were looking forward to it.
All of a sudden these people that's poor habits plague our health care system with obesity and personal choice and life style Malaise are worried. It's a cyclical natural Culling of the WEAK.
And 319, I was definitely looking forward to your response. You are continuing to show how stupid you are, probably one of those with degrees all over your wall while lacking common sense
1114, the comments that say 319 (my mistake) are to you. I look forward to your additional useless argument. As, we put no one in harms way, we were in our personal
vehicle until the hospital and then home. Your argument will be “the hospital” and yes, we went there, my reasons for such are listed in previous comments. If you know how to interpret what your reading and use common sense, you’ll see this was at the direction and advice of medical personnel and other entities due to the possible corona exposure. THEY wanted us seen at the hospital (“they” being the CDC and the health department). We would have went home, they didn’t want us there, they wanted us seen for additional direction and follow up. So if you weren’t so stupid and small minded, you’d know that the at fault people (if anyone) would be the CDC and health department who armed with all information, didn’t want us going home, they wanted us to present ourselves at the hospital
well they've already decided in some countries who gets treatment and who doesn't! so I guess you don't rate treatment. Maybe because you offer little to society? and it's always about you?
Maybe this is how the governments have decided to cull the herd. Way to many stupid people around! homeless, drugs, mental issues, the list of potential victims is endless!
7:12 Shut up and read the bill 🙄 Then get back to us on what ole Nancy tried to push through.
Unfortunately PMRC is only a bandaid station with over paid Management. If you have a medical problem you can count on being transferred to John's Hopkins.
This entire comment section made me think of this:
What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
This corona 19 was developed by direction from Langley to that the heat off jake day, jamie dykes, and barbara duncan
Well hello Clarice.
Aww, someone’s lost the ability to explain themselves anymore. No points, dam, I thought I scored maybe a couple, shucks! God have mercy, lol, sure thing. Shall I offer apologies to all in this “room” who is now dumber for “listening to it”. I am curious how sir/man that you believe someone can listen to writing, I assumed they read it. I hope someone tucks you in tonight and may god have mercy on your ignorance
5:39
It’s a quote from a movie.
3:09
Hilarious!
“Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine.”
Pneumonia
March 15, 2020 at 7:57 PM I was told it was not pneumonia either. Otherwise they would have prescribed antibiotics and they did not. But I thought the same thing. A lot of mis-diagnosing going on.
I think everyone who has commented thus far needs to be tested for gullibility.The sky is falling,you simpletons,lol.
All the outsourcing is nothing “Trump has been right on”. It’s common sense that the US outsources all the manufacturing to countries that don’t have our standards of labor laws or perceived level of human care. See if any of the Trump clothing products were manufactured in the US.
March 16, 2020 at 12:09 AM:
I always love to hear from people that think they are smarter than everyone else, and calls people names. I think you need to be tested for brains.
March 13, 2020 at 3:19 PM:
You are only offended at my comments because I called you out and said what you did was wrong, selfish, and irresponsible. Your excuses don't change that. But keep trying. You just keep saying the same lame things, over and over. I can't cure stupid. Try belittling me. Oh yeah, that doesn't work either. Sorry for you. Maybe you will listen to our Governor, but I doubt it. You are such a crybaby. I'm sure your primary care doctors and the hospital were glad to get rid of you.
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