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28 minutes ago, Jerry said:

My friend who was contacted was not the one who took the Covid test. That was his roommate. If anything, it should have been his roommate that was contacted.

Here, if the person has the testing done through the county health dept, they have the "obligation" to contact everyone who lives at that residence, and they do try to. They tried to contact my wife after I was diagnosed. But, she had already gone in for her test. Then they started contacting her about other's she'd been in contact with. Here you don't have to answer their questions unless you care to...it's not mandatory. But, they continue to hound you if you don't. We finally just blocked the numbers of the contractors for the health dept.

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Ok, they sometimes do contact you. Is it part of their mandate to tell you/order you to quarantine (referring to contacting a secondary person, not the person testing positive)? I have no qualms with them stating you should quarantine if you live in a house with those who test positive - ie. the whole house should quarantine. Same advice I would give, but I don't call other people and tell them they have to.

But for the sake of my friend, how is this not violating doctor/patient confidentiality? Or is this the one medical issue the health situation will justify violating laws on?

For the sake of an illustration - a made up example: If someone had an std that was potentially life-threatening, it would still be against the law for them to contact that person's sexual partners. What is the difference here? Yes, Covid is potentially life-threatening - but we still have laws. The right and responsible thing would be for the person testing positive to tell those he is in close contact with (whether living under the same roof or not) what his diagnosis was (and encourage his contacts to get tested too), not the doctors. Now, I am not saying that the medical system or other authorities don't have the right to follow up and check on that person and their situation - especially if they are contagious - but that is a different issue.

For the record, I am not against the doctors contacting other people involved. It just didn't seem right, in the way that my friend was stating had happened. And there are still laws and procedures that should be followed that shouldn't just be waived because it is Covid. Though of course we know many governments around the world are using this - rightly or wrongly - as their reason to enforce more controlling laws and mandates.

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@Jerry, it wasn't againt the law for them to contact people who had been exposed to the AIDS virus back in the late 80s and early 90s. We had several acquaintances who were contacted because they had been exposed to the virus. They were contacted by a hospital, an AIDS specialist, and their primary care physician. We lived in three different states that carried out this kind of thing, and it didn't matter whether it violated Dr/Patient confidentiality or not. This was a very deadly disease. Because one of these people had been infected and I worked with them, and had assisted them when they had sustained a bleeding injury at work, my skin being exposed to their blood, I had to be tested several times over a two year period. Their doctor is the one who contacted me about their having AIDS...my co-worker told me just before the doctor contacted me about this, that he was HIV positive. Thankfully, I didn't contract it. But, they did the right thing. 

In the case of my wife, she works with many other people and she is a lead person...being an essential worker in an essential position, she was asked to give the names of her people to the health dept...not required, but was requested several times. She told the people in person and by texts. They all got tested, and nobody else had the c-19 virus. The health dept did track down one of her coworkers, though, and let them know that my wife had the virus. These people are relentless.

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I got the bologna virus right now and though it's no fun I've been much sicker before. The Russian flu I had in 1978 was brutal. The worst part is this headache that won't go away and my tinnitus is buzzing extra loud. I had a raging fever for a few hours and sinuses off the charts they could barely get the swab up my nose. I'm supposed to get a monoclonal treatment sometime next week. 

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10 minutes ago, SureWord said:

I got the bologna virus right now and though it's no fun I've been much sicker before. The Russian flu I had in 1978 was brutal. The worst part is this headache that won't go away and my tinnitus is buzzing extra loud. I had a raging fever for a few hours and sinuses off the charts they could barely get the swab up my nose. I'm supposed to get a monoclonal treatment sometime next week. 

Is this a joke or are you really sick.

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6 hours ago, SureWord said:

No joke at all.

The doctors say to take tylenol or it's generic, and to keep hydrated. I started out with Gatorade, but the doctors greatly prefer Pedialyte over it because of the "less sugar" position. Electrolytes of any kind are good. We used "Jewish penicillin" (chicken soup to you great unwashed) and sugar free jello to keep something on our stomachs to lessen stomach and colon complications.

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3am it got pretty bad tonight almost as bad as the Russian flu I had as a kid but my fever has finally come down. Amazingly I haven't got Covid pneumonia yet I think the one med I take for my asthma called Singulair has help prevent that. It's been used in Covid treatment. 

I gave covid to my 89 year old father whom I live with as his caretaker and he got over it pretty easily.  

I tested negative but apparently did have it and tested positive early Thanksgiving morning.

My whole family has been recently rocked by Covid including vaccinated family members. My mother is double vaccinated and has to get a Covid cocktail on Monday.

I don't know if this changes my mind about the vax but anyone who gets it I understand. I'm still opposed to vaccine mandates, though.

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17 minutes ago, SureWord said:

3am it got pretty bad tonight almost as bad as the Russian flu I had as a kid but my fever has finally come down. Amazingly I haven't got Covid pneumonia yet I think the one med I take for my asthma called Singulair has help prevent that. It's been used in Covid treatment. 

I gave covid to my 89 year old father whom I live with as his caretaker and he got over it pretty easily.  

I tested negative but apparently did have it and tested positive early Thanksgiving morning.

My whole family has been recently rocked by Covid including vaccinated family members. My mother is double vaccinated and has to get a Covid cocktail on Monday.

I don't know if this changes my mind about the vax but anyone who gets it I understand. I'm still opposed to vaccine mandates, though.

Hey, if you feel you need to get it, talk to your doctor. The ER doctor talked to me about it and told me I couldn't get it for at least 90 days...I wasn't going to at any rate anyhow. But, I don't want to stop others from getting it if they want it. 

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9 hours ago, BrotherTony said:

Hey, if you feel you need to get it, talk to your doctor. The ER doctor talked to me about it and told me I couldn't get it for at least 90 days...I wasn't going to at any rate anyhow. But, I don't want to stop others from getting it if they want it. 

Curious; why 80 days? Here in Northern California you can get it at any pharmacy and also at other places set up to do the jab. Seems like everywhere I look there are signs for getting Covid 19 vaccinations.

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8 minutes ago, Jim_Alaska said:

Curious; why 80 days? Here in Northern California you can get it at any pharmacy and also at other places set up to do the jab. Seems like everywhere I look there are signs for getting Covid 19 vaccinations.

It was 90s, and it was per CDC guidelines for someone who was currently fighting the virus. I had it at that time. Yes, there are signs at many pharmacies for people to "come in and get vaccinated." I'm pretty much eligible for it now, but I won't be getting it. 

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