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Florence Grageda
"After completing quarantine for 14 days, no need for re-swab unlike last year"
"Remnants are still there that's why they are still positive even after completing the
quarantine"
"Asymptomatic for the last 3 days of quarantine – you're already free to go out and
considered not infectious"
MODE OF TRANSMISSION
- Still DROPLET
INCUBATION PERIOD: 2 – 14 days
Too early or way beyond: FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT
RT–PCR
- GOLD STANDARD IN DIAGNOSING COVID 19
ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION
- for 2 weeks only
- more than 2 weeks: prone to infection
CT Scan
- presence of GROUND GLASS OPACITIES
Complete Blood Count
- HIGH LYMPHOCYTES - viral infection
- more than 12,000
- either LEUKOCYTOSIS or LEUKOPENIA
COVID + Pneumonia
- Tx: AZITHROMYCIN + CEFUROXIME
HAND WASHING
- MOST COMMON AND MOST IMPORTANT WAY OF PROTECTING SELF
Pfizer
- Booster dose after 6 months then annual vaccination – because of mutations