Chiari Neurosurgical Center

BE SMART & STAY SAFE

BE SMART & STAY SAFE during the Pandemic

RECOMMENDATIONS

Two simple words: STAY HOME.
This virus is extremely contagious and insidious.

It can be spread by being close to infected people, as well by touching objects or surfaces which have been touched by infected people many hours, and days prior.

Your local Politicians are issuing ever changing recommendations, which in some locations have been gradually becoming restrictive over time.

Be smart and follow the recommendations which are coming from the leading Doctors and the Scientists. They have recommended to STAY HOME and AVOID EXTERNAL CONTACTS from the very beginning, after learning from the many mistakes made in Europe.

Our statistics and graphs in NYC are mirroring what has happened there in Northern Italy 12 days ago.
BE SMART and STAY HOME.

This storm will pass.

EMRGENCY ROOM

We cannot stress enough to avoid crashing into our ER for non-emergency reasons related to your Neurosurgical conditions:

  • The ER’s in NY State will be saturated very soon (as well as in other States), and further non-emergent traffic will divert space and resources from the people who are critically sick
  • The ER is not the place for complex diagnostic routines (and all of you have complicated clinical conditions)
  • The ER is going to be the place with the highest concentration of very sick patients with COVID-19

TECHNICAL TIPS

If you have to go outside for exceptional situations (like buying food), do the following:

  • use mask and gloves
  • go out late at night or very early in the morning
  • stay far away from other people
  • do not touch your eyes or face
  • get in and get out fast from the store
  • get the most out of your outside trip
  • when you go back home, leave shoes, coat outside of the door
  • discard mask and gloves outside of the door
  • get in the house and go straight to the laundry room, then throw everything in the wash at high temperature
  • go straight to a hot shower after that
  • then say hi to your family
  • wash your hands multiple times
  • develop a healthy dose of OCD and paranoia
  • assume that everybody is infected and that everything is contaminated outside your home (you go at lengths not to bring mud from the outside when it rains, this is much worse)
  • check on your older relatives with daily phone calls.

GENERAL POINTS

At the moment, we cannot exactly predict:

  • How the course and the timeline of the current pandemic will be in NY State, and in the rest of the Country
  • What the further effects of this pandemic are going to be on the daily function of our hospital

On the grounds of the available data from other parts of the globe, we can safely assume that:

  • NY State is bearing the heaviest brunt in this pandemic, within the U.S.
  • The mortality rate in the U.S. is going to be in the low single digits (1-3%) and is mainly going to hit elderly people with pre-existing multiple and serious medical conditions, as well as immuno-compromised patients of any age
  • The recent measures taken by the Federal Government, aimed at decreasing interpersonal interactions as much as possible, as well as eliminating mass gathering, are probably going to mitigate the steep of the pandemic curve and the severity of its impact

 

USEFUL INFORMATION

https://www.cdc.gov

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 


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