Sounds word for word what's going down here in NorCal network, minus the 'small town' HCP thing. All staff and buildings of the larger network here have been converted to deal with covid-19 response. The EDs of the major hospitals have been setup with outside areas to diagnose and test for suspected covid-19 infections.

Staff that were 'it's just the flu' last week are bracing for the wave that's inbound as we creep closer to april, the entire hospital network is being focused on just this one event. Anyone capable of tele-medicine has been moved home as of today, well, starting tomorrow, that's all last week was was training. Everyone is making it up as they go trying to get ahead of this as best as they can.

PPE shortage is real, getting the Unions active, lots of tension between admin and nurses right now over this, protests out front of the hospitals. Could lead to a strike, will see. Not much time left to sort it out. Union has made it clear they will not let the nurses work if they can't get adequate PPE. Looks like about a week until we know how that story ends. Probably will require govt intervention if they can't get it provided.

And yeah, it's always double interstitial pneumonia, time and time again, same as Italy, same as this guy from New Orleans is stating.

You nothingburgers can BS flag all day, but it doesn't make the truth of this go away. There's a high likelyhood you'll get this, and it's these cats that will be saving your stupid asses when that day comes. None of your squealing will stop people from getting the info out, no matter how stupid you are.

And anyone flying that bs flag? I'd look into seeing if they can engrave that on headstones, it would be cute to see that on yours, because odds are you aren't taking this as seriously as you need to. Which means odds are you're fucked.