Some Uncle Intel from near Allentown PA

Thanks for the info Nox. I'm about 20 miles from Allentown - will keep an ear/eye out. Based on your description I'm assuming this isn't related to the C. Bucks closure today - can you confirm?

It's unrelated as far as I know.

I’m near Austin, TX. My 16 year old began having flu-like symptoms last Thursday....fever, headache, muscle cramps. Took her to urgent care that day and they ran flu and strep tests. Both were negative. They did ask about travel, but she hasn’t been anywhere. Sent her home with a five day course of Tamiflu. My 10 year old got sick the next day ...fever, headache, muscle aches, but also tested negative for flu and strep. They sent her home with a five day prescription of Tamiflu. Back to the 16 year old. She began running higher fever Saturday afternoon and developed a slight cough. Cough was worse on Sunday. Ten year old also had slight cough on Sunday. 14 year old began running fever. Monday, took the 16 year old to the doctor (her PCP this time) concerned about pneumonia. They NEVER asked about travel and said her lungs sounded clear, but she was dehydrated. Told her to drink water. Also repeated strep test (negative). Gave her a steroid and said that she should be better by the next day. Didn’t want to do an X-ray because they didn’t want to expose a 16 y.o. to that much radiation, even though her cough was severe at that point. Her fever broke Tuesday, but still had a bad cough. 10 year old and 14 year old both fever free also. Wednesday, took the 10 & 14 year old to school because they were fever free for 24 hours. 16 year old stayed home and spiked another fever. Called the MD and they called in an X-ray. Had to call them at 4:55 pm for results. She had pneumonia with “moderate pleural effusion “. They called in a prescription of amoxicillin and told me to watch her for breathing difficulty and if any, take her to the ER immediately. Yesterday, still running fever, no appetite and not drinking. Cough was awful. Took her to the ER last night for dehydration. The ER was full of adults and kids in face masks waiting to be seen. Admission lady asked about travel . I answered no. She asked if we had been around anyone with Covid19. I said “how would I know? I don’t think so”. Filled out admit form and stated reason for visit was “diagnosed pneumonia and worried about dehydration”. We waited five minutes before they called her to get vitals. They took her straight back to the ER and hooked her up to monitors. I asked if I needed to put a mask on her and they said no. Both the nurse and doctor attending her were not wearing masks. In fact, only saw one doctor in a mask our whole time there. They repeated the X-ray, did blood work and hooked her to a bag of fluid. They also repeated the flu test even though I told them she’d finished her five day Tamiflu regimen and it didn’t help(negative again). X-ray came back and they confirmed pneumonia and effusion. Recommended she continue with antibiotics. Her color and pulse rate were better after fluid, so they sent us home. Today, she says she feels better than she has all week. I was just beside myself over the lack of concern all medical personnel showed in the last week and just the impression that everyone was more worried about it being the flu than anything else. I fear we’re in trouble with Covid19 if this is how our medical personnel are acting.

You will never know what it was, but considering how contagious Covid-19 is, I would not rule out it was. This virus is much more spread than acknowledged, and just because most cases are mild it is going greatly underreported. The problem is that precisely because most cases are mild, the contagious is spreading unchecked.

I'm about 2 hours north of allentown

The virus is in Wayne county

thank you for your post.

I know this only causes pain to hear, but the policy is "don't test don't tell". They are not doing tests for 'community spread' cases unless they can prove that they were in contact with a known case. It is their protocol. Yah, it's all messed up.

Other than that, I don't know what to say except I feel for your family. Perhaps mass dose vit-C but make sure you take flavonoids with it which occurs naturally with vitamin C in fruits, etc. Now, Vit C is produced synthetically and they do not have the naturally occuring flavonoids.

I buy rutin , which is a flavonoid. I did this after reading clinical studies on it. The difference with/without rutin on treating virus' and pathogens if night and day. I only take a 'drop' size level spoon full with 1000mg of C three times a day. You can buy the mini size spoons online. 'Drop' is the very smallest spoon size.

Good luck to you and your family.

Waiting in Delco for the same info to come out.

Fuck, I'm in the Lehigh Valley too. I was hoping to have a little more of a buffer than this if what you say is true.

Goddamn, if this isn't one of the most confusing, mind fucks in a long time. Really hard to tell what the fuck is actually going on. Whatever the actual danger level ends up being you can be sure the cabal is pulling the strings and that's ultimately the real danger.

Bedrest and plenty of fluids.

I keep hearing that suspected c19 patients are those testing negative for both flu A and B.....

Do you know how many times me or the kids have gone to dr over the years with flu symtoms and tested neg??

Great to be safe, and get them tested for kungflu, but in no way is that an ipso-facto sure bet they contracted that shit

My two cents

When your area gets the test kits, 700,000 today, 4 million next week, have your kids tested for coronavirus2019. They will test positive even after symptoms/recovery.

4 out of 5 doctors in Allentown PA still smoke Camels.

Why don't you go ahead and include D.C. in that...

Yeah, it's far from the ideal locale but it's also historic as fuck. Bethlehem Steel practically built 20th century America. Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State building (and many other early skyscrapers), not to mention producing a naval destroyer's worth of steel every day at the height of WWII. Respect.

Same, I'm in Reading.

Is there anyplace that isn't an s-hole? I'm looking to move to Allentown from Philly. It's free-range chaos here.

Wayne County, Allentown, PA, Central Bucks ~

that means Wilkes Barre /Scranton has it too. Hope the Donald didn't shake too many hands last night.

lead oxide works great for hypochondria

I have a bunch of flake white oil paint, can I eat that instead?

I think CV was somehow in the flu shots this year...I never get flu, but right after shot this year....all kind of cv symptoms for a long time.

Yeah, I lived in Seattle and San Francisco before moving here and what it lacks in vistas and $ it makes up for with a distinct lack of human shit on the sidewalks, syringes in the street, and all around riff-raff

I don't think they would have put her on antibiotics if they suspected the coronavirus or the flue.

Antibiotics only treat bacterial pneumonia and would make a virus worse

sorry flu

Don't live in A-town though, Bethlehem, if not Easton. Trust me.

gittin closer

Delaware

daughter of mine in Philly had a terribly streppy throat few days back. got tested for mono and strep, both negative

the quick strep test was wrong, it was strep C, not A or B.

Strep C is not as likely to cause complication as Group A Strep, or GAS

but it still can. They recommended antibiotics altho non-symptomatic at that point.

Hey, it's not much better anywhere else in the lower 48.

Also just heard a kid in Linwood, pa (Delaware county) tested positive for CV, teacher put a Facebook post out. Superintendent follows up with a mass email claiming fake news... Who knows... honestly don't care. I'm in the fuck it stage.

Emmaus is pretty nice.