S.Peelman on 10 March 2020
| SvennoJ said: People working is hospitals need better protection as well. RIVM in the Netherlands tested 301 people in Brabant and found that 28 of people working in the 2 hospitals there are already infected. 5 other hospitals were tested and currently they estimate that 4% of the staff has already caught the infection. More people needing care, less people to provide care :/ For now the daily reported number of cases in the Netherlands seems to stabilize but they speculate it is because they stopped testing family members since they are under quarantine already. (giving priority to testing people still on the go) It looks pretty stable atm in Canada, hopefully it can stay that way. So far here it's all from incoming travelers. |
Yeah this is something to keep an eye on. The medical specialists that are getting infected probably aren’t really at risk for serious complication themselves, but they’re obviously working with people that are. I think they’re on top of it in time though. They’ve also reported recoveries.
Personally I’m not worried. It’ll be contained in due time, it’s already starting to level out though it could be too soon to tell. Meanwhile out on the street the famous Dutch level-headedness is on full display. Barely anyone seems to care (I mean, obviously we “care”) and life goes on seemingly unaffected, no toilet-paper-out-of-stock shenanigans here lol.
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