Author: Blazingcatfur

The taboo pandemic.

One of the world’s best soccer players recently and inadvertently issued a frightening warning to the world, though neither he nor the world probably recognize it as such.

Argentina’s Sergio Aguero announced his retirement Dec. 15 after suffering a heart attack six weeks earlier during a game. While playing for FC Barcelona on Oct. 31, Aguero bent at the waist, experienced breathing problems, grabbed his lungs, lay on his back and received treatment from trainers before going to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with an irregular heartbeat.

It’s a phenomenon that doctors and officials have known about for months, but haven’t been all that forthcoming about.

It’s what’s known as incidental hospitalizations — people who are included in the Ontario government’s daily count of people in hospital with COVID-19, but who aren’t actually in hospital for the virus.

German Police Union (GdP) said it was concerned about the psychological consequences faced by police officers deployed at protests against COVID-19 measures.

“The many coronavirus protests are putting a huge strain on our forces,” union national chairman Oliver Malchow told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND).

Police officers are deployed from one state to another to deal with the numerous demonstrations taking place across Germany, he said in comments published Wednesday.

‘I still haven’t grieved’: Families want apology for loved ones exposed to COVID-19 in hospital who died

Lloyd Hodgins was a jokester with a good heart.

Hodgins, 82, fractured his hip in October and received surgery at Boundary Trails Health Centre between Morden and Winkler, Man.

He tested negative for COVID-19 after being transferred to hospital in Portage la Prairie. Family expected he’d rehabilitate there and be back at his MacGregor care home cracking wise with friends and staff in no time.

Then he got COVID-19; he died Nov. 8. Hodgins and three other patients who had eaten together in the dining room of the locked Portage District General Hospital rehab unit tested positive, said his daughter Val Alderson.

Several provinces considering allowing COVID positive health workers to stay on job

What could possibly go wrong?

This is how my Mum died. I did receive a follow up phone call from the palliative care Doctor at Toronto Western but nothing from the physio -rehab facility where she contracted the plague. When I picked up Mom’s belongings the rehab perversely included a bag of her soiled bed linens.  I threw it into the lobby.