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Covid 19 was like fighting a war for healthcare workers. 

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Covid symptoms range from Fever,chills, body aches,sore throat, shortness of breath and most odd of all loss of taste and/or smell.

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Testing was and still is uncomfortable for most, with a nasal swab.  Now, several years after it came out, home test can be bought at Walmart, cvs, and Walgreens. Patients can know they are positive or negative from their home. 

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Covid can be air borne or even acquired by someone sneezing, or poor hand hygiene touching surfaces such as grocery carts. 

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Everywhere you go, you probably still see “social distancing signs. When Covid first come out, schools shut down and caused children everywhere to be virtual. Big companies shut down production, and everyone had masks. Hand sanitizer was extremely hard to come by. 

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Individuals with a weakened immune system, other health problems or the elderly are at high risk for severe respiratory distress requiring hospitalization or inpatient treatment.

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More recently Pfizer has come out with a drug to help treat Covid 19. When Covid first appeared, many patients got steroids and antibiotics, along with a 10 day quarantine.  The treatments have helped with less hospitalizations, and better outcomes than when it first appeared. 

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The Covid vaccine was definitely controversial and many were scared of it, but others were so thankful to stand in line for a possible preventative because so many families lost their loved ones to Covid, so they opted to take a chance on it help prevent them from getting it or taking it home to their families. 

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Ventilators , oxygen and even hospital rooms were depleted through out the state. Patients were transported by ambulance to hospitals hours away and some never saw their families again due to death and restrictions on visitations in hospitals and nursing homes. 

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Extremely sad statistics for Mississippi, as so many lives were loss due to Covid.

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Extremely sad statistics for Mississippi, as so many lives were loss due to Covid.

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Mask were also hard to come by, some of us had to clean our N95 mask and reuse them due to shortages. 

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Healthcare workers everywhere had  irritated faces from the long hours or masks. 

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Healthcare workers everywhere had  irritated faces from the long hours or masks. 

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Covid 19 was one of the scariest things healthcare workers had ever dealt with.  

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Covid 19 was one of the scariest things healthcare workers had ever dealt with.  

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All of the deaths and watching patients die with no possibility of being able to help left healthcare workers with PTSD similar to soldiers fighting a war.

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All of the deaths and watching patients die with no possibility of being able to help left healthcare workers with PTSD similar to soldiers fighting a war.

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I myself as a Paramedic have to live with the crisis of watching so many sick covid patients die , either due to them either waiting to long to get help because they didn’t want to burden the system more than it was already burdened at the time, or not letting their families help care for them , when they couldn’t care for themselves because they didn’t want their families to get it.