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They’re needed at a higher rate than can reasonably be made, which is worsened by the fact that there was a high demand before there was *any* supply. They had to create the test. It’s not like strep tests which are available in abundance.

If you find yourself in this situation, ask your doctor to prescribe tamaflu. The CDC is supplying tamaflu as part of the emergency response to covid-19 and it seems to help. There hasn’t been an official announcement yet because they don’t have as much data as they want in order to say “this works”, but tamaflu is widely available, relatively inexpensive, and safe. Any ordinary doctor has the authority to prescribe approved medication for off-label use, such as tamaflu for probable cases of covid-19.

And the reason they won’t treat you is because there isn’t a treatment, it’s a virus. Just like a cold or the flu, you have to wait it out. Some antivirals like tamiflu might make it less serious, but covid19 is brand new and we don’t have the tests to say for sure. We know it works for things similar to covid19, so by all rights it should work, but we can’t guarantee it. The treatment you get if you land in the hospital is the treatment you need to get through the illness. So if you go into respiratory failure fighting off the virus? We can’t get rid of the virus. Your immune system has to do that. BUT we can treat the respiratory failure so you don’t die before your immune system can finish fighting it! It’s totally reasonable you don’t get treatment until you get the more dangerous symptoms, because those symptoms are what we can do something about. This isn’t withholding treatment until you “deserve it”, it’s about fixing what you can actually fix.

And this is NOT as deadly as y’all think it is. The number of people that are dying is scary. But you have to put that in perspective of how many people are infected in the first place. This is about four times more deadly than the flu, BUT we’re looking at people sick enough to wind up in the hospital with covid-19, versus ANYONE who got the flu and died so the numbers don’t match up! Again, we don’t have a lot of research so we can’t say anything for sure, but if you look through the stuff on the cdc site what we have shows that for the cases that get bad enough to cause pneumonia, it’s about as deadly as other similar viruses that get bad enough to cause pneumonia. Worse if you’re old or really young or sick, otherwise pretty good odds.

There’s a lot of viruses that are coronaviruses. Kind of like how there are a lot of different types of crabs. We can’t say anything for sure about this one because it’s genetically distinct, but it’s closest relative? The coronaviruses that arent covid19? They can cause SARs. But they also cause colds. Common fucking colds.

This is not a death sentence. This is not unimportant. Keep an eye on it, wash your hands, and don’t panic just because someone says to panic. Do your research. If something about how this is being handled doesn’t make sense, look into why. It is not being handled perfectly. We aren’t trying to get people killed with it either. There are reasons we handle things this way, it’s up to you individually to decide if that reason is good enough ONLY ONCE YOU KNOW THE SITUATION AROUND THAT REASONING.

Over the course of my time there: -A woman came in with a skirt made of neckties. Just. Neckties, all strung together to make a skirt. She had leggings on underneath, thank god. -Been asked for the Mona Lisa -Been asked for the Sistine Chapel -Been asked where the dinosaurs are -Been asked where the animals are -Been asked for “The Bitch With The Pitcher” (Vermeer’s “Woman with a Water Pitcher,” by the way)

-Been asked for “The Girl With The Pearl Earring”

-Been asked for the Mona Lisa

-Got bored and learned the name of every single one of the Buddhas

-Got bored and learned the name of five Chinese dynasties (long day in Asian Art)

-Chilled in the Buddha room

-Watched someone escorted out for trying to take a nude photo in the Arms and Armor section

-Been asked for the Michelangelo’s, then the Raphael’s, then the Leonardo’s, then the Donatello’s (they were naming ninja turtles) -Heard curator in Musical Instrument section play Night On Bald Mountain on giant historical pipe organ while laughing maniacally.

-Fielded a day when a filthy counterfit version of the museum program was disseminated among visitors, guiding them to the filthiest art in the museum – such as the painting of Cupid peeing on Venus

-guarded Cupid peeing on Venus

-Been asked for the Mona Lisa

-Been asked if I had seen the First Lady of Mexico (she had gone missing)

-Been asked for that one sculpture of Kronos that is featured in Percy Jackson WHICH DOESN’T EXIST GUYS (directed children to sculptures of Poseidon with trident instead, children were very happy)

-Witnessed two Secret Service Agents get into a swordfight with pieces of packing material.

-been asked by a very polite Fransiscan monk in full brown robes if he had found ‘One of us. He has gone missing.” -Found missing monk and returned him to the herd

-Coworker was asked for the Ark of the Convenant

-Same coworker was asked for the Baseball Hall of Fame

-stopped about 15,000 people from poking that one lion statue in the nuts -saw a woman in a banana suit with banana shoes take a picture in front of an Egyptian temple

-Been asked for the Mona Lisas (plural) 

me: no it's hot outside

bf: but bab-

me: it is 97 degrees. i do not want my hand to be dripping in sweat by the time we let go. satan himself has cursed this day with this heat, i'm not going to feed his hunger with my pain.

bf: