The COVID-19 tally for my family is going up. With the increase of cases, one thing remains clear; there is a difference in how people receive care. Right now, the tally for COVID cases in my family stands at 9. My sister had COVID with her husband and our cousins. My husband’s sister and her husband had COVID-19, which also bled down to their children.
Earlier this week, my daughter informed me that her boyfriend and his mother were diagnosed with COVID. I asked her boyfriend about their medication and found out the doctors prescribed Z-packs. I asked her boyfriend if he and his mother were prescribed any other medications he stated no.
Part of me wanted to believe that this was perhaps normal. However, I knew from talking to our family members when they dealt with COVID that check-ups were frequent. I told him about the vitamins that the doctors used to help our loved ones get better.
I do not want to believe that money plays such a role in how people get treatment for this virus, but it looks like money is a factor. You have two families of the upper-middle class who receive great care. Then you have a Mexican family barely above the poverty line that is told to go home and rest.
I would like to believe that perhaps there is something I might be missing, but why were these people simply told to go home and rest? Why are so many people told to go home and rest and later come back with raging cases of COVID? Just curious.
With the election around the corner, it is more important than ever to understand the weight of our decision and how it will hinder healthcare. My sister and her husband both had COVID-19. Thankfully, they were able to get through the quarantine without having to be hospitalized. However, the COVID-19 fight includes numerous visits to the doctor. Their fever was high for nearly nine days of the 14 that they spent in quarantine. Not only did they have high fevers, but they had reoccurring breathing treatments for their pneumonia.
With them both having to go to the doctor every two days to get medication and periodically trying new cocktails of meds, they were able to get better. My cousins still have COVID-19 and seem to be doing fine with their medication. My sister caught her COVID-19 at the beginning, and she was in good health. She is someone that takes her vitamins religiously; this was something she did before getting COVID.
We are grateful for their recovery, but this ordeal showcased another situation that many of us do not think about daily. While we often hear about COVID-19 being the biggest threat to people with underlining health conditions, we ignore another group. We do not think about people with little to no health coverage. When a person gets COVID-19, they will have multiple visits to the doctors and different assortments of medications, which all come hand in hand with good benefits.
To put it in simple terms, if you do not have insurance, you are jacked. Since COVID-19 is such a nasty virus and it can kill, it is unthinkable that anyone would think about taking away medical benefits during a situation like this. If you do not have insurance, your treatment chances will not be the same as someone with insurance. When you think about all the millions of Americans who are out of work and uninsured, it becomes a larger issue.
If you listen to politicians talk about their advances regarding COVID-19 recovery, you might think all is well. Some often talk about manufacturing being up and more jobs coming our way. However, there are states like mine that are witnessing closures of small businesses and layoffs across the board. The misinformation can get a little out of hand at times.
States with high cases of COVID infections are facing a tough time recovering due to the stress COVID-19 places on a local economy. We have two major issues right now; we have people gathering in mass turnouts, and people not knowing what to do. Politicians would have you think the COVID-19 problem is red or blue, but it isn’t. I live in a red state, and we are currently still struggling with COVID-19.
My sister and her husband are quarantining now because they were diagnosed with the virus. Sadly, this is a similar nightmare across America. My sister wore her mask all the time and still managed to get sick from the virus. It just goes to show you how much we do not know about COVID.
As many of the doctors try to fight COVID, they are finding it hard to treat various patients. They are still trying multiple things to treat people with COVID. My sister stated that at this point, she is getting a lot of vitamins thrown at her. She is also taking other meds, including breathing treatments.
Perhaps, the larger problem is how we manage to keep having so many cases of COVID pop up across different states. Rallies and protests are not helping reduce the infections, and that is a fact. With more cases on the horizon, we need to stay alert. While many of us want to get back to normal, we might have to accept that, the idea of normal, might never be the version of normal we once lived. Perhaps the fantasizing about normalcy is the reason we are now seeing cases rise once again.
The outbreak is something that will take time and diligence to overcome because it can overwhelm, and it is overtaking some communities. So, practice caution, and as always, do your research. Do not let some guy barricaded behind safety endanger your family, for the sake of his comfort. Do not forget that we are still in the middle of a pandemic.
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