I first learned that President Donald Trump tested positive for coronavirus while running in the hospital to treat critically ill patients with COVID-19. Shocked by the “latest news” ringing on my phone, I went back to the paintings to treat my patients who were having trouble breathing.
Now that I myself have had a moment to digest the information, I have wondered what classes we can be informed of the world’s maximum hard user inflamed with this virus. I think what we don’t all forget is that anyone can inflamed with coronavirus and that this pandemic won’t go away soon.
President Trump and his staff have had access to daily checks as well as more productive health care. Even with all this, it has been controlled to test positive, most likely by disassociated from the preventive measures he had denounced in the past: he has rarely been seen wearing a mask and sometimes not socially distanced. This highlights the fact that the passage of this virus transcends racial and socioeconomic barriers without proper precautions.
However, we also know that COVID-19, when detected, does not affect everyone in the same way. African-American and minority populations are disproportionate during this pandemic in terms of deaths and hospitalizations. Other older people are most at risk of complicaciones. al just like other economically vulnerable people. However, don’t feel too comfortable if you’re not part of those groups: there’s still a percentage of other healthy young people who are feeling pretty bad because of coronavirus.
President Trump falls into the categories of elderly and overweight; possibly become seriously ill, but possibly also continue to have mild symptoms. Despite this, he has been continuously in contact with staff members and others without masks, who can also contract the virus and spread it. Nothing I write deserves to be infected, it will surprise any reader, however, it’s a message that turns out to have to be inserted over and over again. The more the virus spreads, the harder the pandemic, the more sick other people become and the more vulnerable other people will die.
We continue to amount to a quarter of a million COVID-19-related deaths. However, some Americans believe that prevention methods are not valuable. Stories of big parties and indoor gatherings are news. Masking remains a moot and even political issue. The misinformation continues to spread. This pandemic is far from over. Until we have widespread immunity, we will have to continue to mask and distance society. Please learn from the president’s example: anyone can contract and spread this deadly disease.
Dr. Thomas Ken Lew is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and an assistant physician in hospital medicine at Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare.
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