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TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2020, 04:12 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus is in a large Metro Philly Hospital--one of the floors are quarantined.

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This is the scuttlebutt from someone who works in that specific hospital and I won't say anything more.

It might actually be in two hospitals.

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Coronavirus is in a large Metro Philly Hospital--one of the floors are quarantined. (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Mar 2020 OP

No doubt, Adder...it is just soooooo bad that so many health workers were probably around the Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #1

The more I read today, what I had hoped was pessimistic dewsgirl Mar 2020 #2

Ridiculous how much is being kept from the public. Roland99 Mar 2020 #3

I'll bet I used to live next door to one of them DFW Mar 2020 #4

Local TV site shows little or no alarm. Here's their coronavirus web page... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #5

Please do not post rumors that cannot be confirmed. Louis1895 Mar 2020 #6

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)

1. No doubt, Adder...it is just soooooo bad that so many health workers were probably around the

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 04:26 PM

Mar 2020

infected peeps and weren’t wearing their full protection gear, so they have to self-quarantine at exactly the moment we need them so badly..hopefully they don’t get sick and if they do, recover with rest and lots of fluids

Best wishes to all

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

2. The more I read today, what I had hoped was pessimistic

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 05:02 PM

Mar 2020

speculation, is turning into a real time nightmare throughout the country.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

3. Ridiculous how much is being kept from the public.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 05:05 PM

Mar 2020

DFW

(54,436 posts)

4. I'll bet I used to live next door to one of them

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 05:11 PM

Mar 2020

The University of Pennsylvania hospital was across the street from me during my freshman year.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)

5. Local TV site shows little or no alarm. Here's their coronavirus web page...

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 05:11 PM

Mar 2020

coronavirus
WPVI-TV Philadelphia

Link: https://6abc.com/tag/coronavirus/

Lots of news about New York and Washington state cases but none in PA.

Perhaps they are setting up that facility as a precautionary measure.

KY...........

Louis1895

(768 posts)

6. Please do not post rumors that cannot be confirmed.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 05:17 PM

Mar 2020

This may be true but lets try to stay with information that is official.

(I work at a Philly med school and have not heard anything yet.)

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