The sudden closure of the Santa Cruz Valley Hospital in Green Valley last week has some former patients worried about what it will mean for people who need urgent care.
Bird Song of the Day
Amazonia sounds like a busy place!
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
Holy cow! Did somebody at CDC find a bunch of faxes from the Northeast wadded up in a drawer? I did spend a few minutes poking around, and didn’t find anything on this staggering leap, so I assume this is a data glitch that’s going to be rolled back. Readers? And in a week or so, we’ll see what effect the J&J debacle has had, if any.
In the stroke ward of the Royal Hospital in Donnybrook, I shared my quarters with a jazz pianist, a taxi driver, a retired heart surgeon, an electrician, a physics teacher and a deep sea diver.
Before my eventual sojourn there, I had been in three other hospitals in quick succession, and all because one Friday in early November I had got the first indications that all was not well with my body.
I had begun the day uneventfully with a variety of household chores (emptying the dishwasher, making lunch, putting books back on shelves). In the late afternoon I sat down to read a magazine and when I tried to get up again I found that it took me a few attempts to rise from the sofa.