"Hospitals in the Richmond and Tri-Cities areas today announced they would restrict patient visitation to help combat the spread of seasonal and swine flu
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I'm sure the problem is they have no way of knowing who has been vaccinated and who hasn't. Plus I heard that some of the area school around here are doing bulk nasal spray vaccination of children, which is with weakened instead of dead virus. There is a chance that the weaken virus can cause infection among those with severely weakened immune systems. Although it looks like the chance is rare: http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/nasalspray.htm
Also, it used to be common practice to not allow children under 14 to see patients in their rooms at least in the 70s. I'm not sure when that changed.
Ironically, last week we had an adult patient sent to our office from MCV's ER - he went there because he believed he had the flu, had been exposed to someone who'd developed H1N1. But MCV decided it was his Lupus flaring (his fever was intermittent) so they told him to get into his rheumatologist (that'd be us).
Long story short, he was H1N1 positive and while they did the best to sanitize the exam room, the NP who saw him ended up with two kids at home with the swine flu. THANX MCV!
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I'm standing here, arm at the ready, put a damn needle in it!
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Also, it used to be common practice to not allow children under 14 to see patients in their rooms at least in the 70s. I'm not sure when that changed.
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Ironically, last week we had an adult patient sent to our office from MCV's ER - he went there because he believed he had the flu, had been exposed to someone who'd developed H1N1. But MCV decided it was his Lupus flaring (his fever was intermittent) so they told him to get into his rheumatologist (that'd be us).
Long story short, he was H1N1 positive and while they did the best to sanitize the exam room, the NP who saw him ended up with two kids at home with the swine flu. THANX MCV!
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