Meanwhile, Hidalgo said this is not the time to be lax and encourages everyone to stay on course and be even more vigilant with wearing face masks, practicing safe social distancing and proper hygiene. I think it will be more targeted and timelier with a lot less social disruption and a lot less economic disruption." James McDeavitt, the dean of clinical affairs at Baylor College of Medicine.
"I imagine, at some point, public officials will start to tap the brakes and try to slow the spread," said Dr. Local health officials also see that happening in the near future. As fast as numbers are going up, she said it's become inevitable that another pull-back is necessary and may be coming soon. This is me yesterday, nearly two months later, with a little bit of color finally returned to my face.Hidalgo said they've got several hundred people on the county's contact tracing team who are continuing to use the threat level system, but not enough people are heeding the warnings. Covid death would be announced in Washington state and in another week I would be able to climb one flight of stairs without nearly fainting. A week and a half after I passed out in the shower, the first U.S. This, we now know from all the accounts, is the part where the blood doesn’t have enough oxygen and the patients are texting their loved ones right before they die. Find information about important alerts, 311 services, news, programs, events, government employment. After thinking about it for a very long time, I was able to get myself off the floor of the bathroom, get dressed, stuff my soaked pajamas in the outside pocket of my suitcase, roll myself down to the lobby, and order four herbal teas to go.Īccording to my watch, my heart rate had gone to 150 beats per minute several times in the hours when I was ostensibly sleeping. The official website of the City of New York. I opened my eyes and tried to make them stay that way. Forty-five minutes was long enough to die, and if I died in Oxford, Mississippi, naked on the tile of the Graduate Hotel, who would care? They already had William Faulkner. I knew if I were not in the lobby within 45 minutes Cindy would come looking for me. What must have been about ten minutes later I came to again. I put my face against the mercifully cold tile, saw with the last of my vision that my pajamas, tossed onto the bathroom floor, were getting soaked from the still cascading water. It was the start of the third week of February, no reason to think I had the coronavirus, but there I was, face wedged into the corner of the low bath tub, coming to, getting up to my hands and knees and over the lip and onto the tile floor of the bathroom, shower still running, water everywhere, but here came the blackness from both sides of my eyes again. That was how I knew this was no ordinary flu. These 20 words and photographs by Pam Houston are appearing daily in through June 20, the summer solstice.ĪpDizzy I passed out in the shower in a hotel room in Oxford, Mississippi. She gave Pam and others a word most mornings, and the assignment to write to that world and either take or find a photo to go with it. These 20 words were assigned to Pam Houston by her friend, the writer and photographer Kyle Wolff, as part of Project 2020 (Quarantine Edition).
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