Zacurate Pro Series 500DL Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor with Silicon Cover, Batteries and Lanyard (Royal Black)

We just got an email about that as well. Fortunately it seems to be voluntary still - like that children's offered to accept some older patients to help with overflow at other nearby hospitals.

I completely agree that it is going to get much worse, VERY quickly if we become full.

Also, here's a link to the pulse ox I bought. I agree that this is a very helpful monitoring tool if you have COVID and a important measurement to help know when to go to the hospital.

I’m sorry to hear about your family... You might advise them to grab a pulse oximeter on Amazon - they’re about $30, and can provide insight into whether they need to go to the hospital (if their blood oxygen drops into the low 90s).

If you want, I got this one and it seems to work fine (just have to jam your finger all the way to the back and let it sit still on the table while it finds your pulse): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZmglFbJBAH6K0

Just buy one and prove people wrong yourself. Plus it is a very handy tool to have right now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KH3eFb7F73Z03 30$

I got mine a few weeks ago. It’s very accurate and like twenty bucks.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Be careful sharing link. The description it gives when sharing is a vibrating butt plug. No kidding, it’s weird. You can copy just don’t share on phone.

Not OP but I have this one and it works great: Zacurate Pro Series 500DL... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Zacurate Pro Series 500DL Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor with Silicon Cover, Batteries & Lanyard (Royal Black) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XHAxEb70DBN0B

amazon! they're 30 bucks. get the one called "zaccurate" as interestingly enough, it's pretty zaccurate. For a bit there was a run on them, but now they should be easy enough to find.

if you are not in the US and have trouble amazon-ing things, or just want to support another business - search "pulse oximeter"

meanwhile - here's a link to the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4?ref_=ast_sto_dp

As insane as your parents sound it seems like nothing in this world is going to change their minds until you or anyone in your family needs to get admitted to the hospital. If you are showing systems OP best you can do is to monitor yourself. If you can find yourself a pulse oximeter and see what your oxygen levels are at. Symptoms of COVID are low oxygen saturation levels in the blood. Normal is between 100%-95% sPO2. Anything less than 90% requires supplemental O2...basically you need to be seen by a medical professional.

Source: I am a medic.

I bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_fab_NjVHFbAYDT306

https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=oxygen+monitor+fingertip&qid=1594215645&sprefix=oxygen&sr=8-3

Accurite, now known as Zacurate. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/

As I said above, I'm not anything like an MD but I would consider this one. https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/

It was recommended to me by a pulmonologist a while back.

If you're interested, my pa is a paramedic and when my grandpa was experiencing congestive heart failure from COPD he'd test him daily with one of these. They're surprisingly inexpensive and effective and a good way to monitor yourself if you think you're catching 2019-nCoV.

It's hard to have them after not for such a long time. Try to go threw and figure out if any has changed lately, nutritionally or stress wise. I find out after numerous attacks that I was low on vitamin D and potassium and it was exacerbating the issue.

Also, something I carry around with me how is a oxygen level reader. When I'm going into that panic attack mindset I can slip it on and have a visual cue that I have plenty of oxygen (I feel like I can't breath, but I'm usually hyperventilating) and that my heart is just elevated.

https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=oxygen+level+finger+meter&qid=1578810533&sprefix=oxygen+level&sr=8-3

This is the one I bought: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I've had this one almost a year (Amazon link) - I've compared it with a few others, and it works well. Reviews are good too. Good luck!

Here is a non-invasive device that tells you the percentage of oxygen in your blood. Certain other things can be measured via optical means.

I got a good one on Amazon . $26.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_liQ5FbSX57H1Q?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

First off, don't panic! Our doctor told us pregnant women aren't at higher risk of getting symptoms, just that symptoms can be more taxing since you've got a baby on board! I'd run any advice by your OB, but it might be a good idea to snag a blood oxygen reader from Amazon(don't know about this model, it's just a well-reviewed one). I've heard reduced blood oxygen is the first sign of more severe symptoms.

While it may scare you a bit, you can rest easy once you know what it is and that it won't last (or kill you). Stress plays a huge part in how GERD affects the body so while it may sound easy - you have to try to relax. And feel free to ask questions here if you're new to this and not sure if something is "normal". When I first got GERD and LPR, it was brought on by Stress. I had crazy panic attacks, didn't sleep for weeks, horrible stomach aches and nausea for months because I didn't know what was wrong with me. Since being diagnosed, I realize that the stomach/ throat issues are normal (although very frustrating) with this disease and so i no longer have the panic attacks and I can sleep a bit.

If you've ever been to the hospital with shortness of breath or any kind of chestpain, the oximeter is the little clamp thing they stick on your finger. It's typically the first thing they do. It measures the oxygen in your blood in seconds. I got mine off of Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_JznwFbAYXCH4Q

There are cheaper ones available as well. It helped and still helps give me peace of mind whenever I feel shortness of breath because of this horrible disease. It reminds me that I'm fine, my body is getting enough oxygen and that the feeling will pass.

Also, this sub is full of good info to help you avoid the ER visits (I've been 4 times while figuring this all out)!!! Most of the threads on here will give you useful advice on what changes you need to make to your diet (a lot if you haven't already started), sleeping position (on an incline), and medication to help ease your symptoms to help you get this under control. Good luck

$19 pulse ox with like 12,000 reviews and an calculated 4.5 star overall

https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=pulse+ox&qid=1588207618&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have a great job, so wearing a mask hasn't diminished my oxygen levels or my work performance. How do I know what? That she's not a OSHA director? Do your research before writing a misleading title like CNN. Also she has had OSHA training, but for construction. She's not a doctor. She might know if some sort of information for her field, but she doesn't know how bodies work. I love that she works in construction and she knows a lot about her field, but she is not a doctor. If you are worried about oxygen levels while wearing a mask, buy a pulse ox, which measures oxygen. They sell them at pharmacies and amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=pulse+ox&qid=1595813116&sr=8-5

If you dont want to go out anywhere and have Amazon Prime:

https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2HURXINCFEEBH&dchild=1&keywords=pulse+oximeter&qid=1594416815&sprefix=pulse+ox%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-5

Innovo and Zacurate models on Amazon are widely popular, I have both and they read the same -- although the Innovo device seems to be a little faster. It also shows perfusion index, which gives you an idea of how strong the pulse signal is. If the $7 matters to you, I'd grab the Zacurate, otherwise the Innovo.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is the one that I used during my illness.

THE FOLLOWING IS A SYNTHESIS OF WHAT I HAVE READ. I AM NOT DIGGING UP SOURCES. EITHER TRUST ME, LOOK THEM UP YOURSELF, OR DON'T. I don't represent that this is true. I represent that I believe that this is true:

The current disease timeline appears to be something like this:

• Incubation period (time between getting infected and showing symptoms) 1-10 days. There are reports of incubation periods as large as 45 days, but at the moment I find that incredibly hard to believe and suspect that in those cases, the moment of infection has been misidentified (eg they got infected by an unknown person 1-10 days before showing symptoms)
• Disease progression week one: Symptoms that are more-or-less indistinguishable from a bad viral flu
• Disease progression week two: if you're in the 'mild' category, it stays like week one for another week and then you recover. If you're not, you come down with pneumonia that rapidly gets worse
• Disease progression week three: Some fraction of the pneumonic cases get better; they are going to be fine. Some fraction of the pneumonic cases escalate to critical. And some fraction of the pneumonic cases appear to get fine, and then some time in week three they just randomly keel over dead. This third category is believed to be some kind of autoimmune problem ("cytokine storm", your immune system goes overboard and when it's done killing the virus it kills your lungs and/or heart)

People are contagious during the incubation period. That is, people who are not yet actually ill can spread the virus and infect others.

From the N~=50k study out of china, right now, the current best estimate of the prospects of people who catch this disease are:

• 80% of cases are mild. Noting that "mild" may still mean "the worst flu you've ever had", it just means that you do not need hospital treatment to recover
• 13% of cases are severe. It is unclear to me what, specifically, severe means, but from what I can tell, it involves developing pneumonia. These are survivable with appropriate medical treatment, which for the most part means keeping fever below dangerous levels and supplementing oxygen. In the event of a widespread outbreak, oxygen/hospital care may not be available for people in this segment. Fortunately, O2 Concentrators are $250 and O2 Sat Monitors are $20, so if you want to prep for a world in which you become a severe case but don't have access to hospital, get these two things and attempt home care
• 5% of cases are critical. It is unclear to me what, specifically, critical means, but it involves requiring intensive care. Noting that the intensive care resources in a mid sized US city are sufficient for maybe a few hundred cases. I assume that a large majority of people who fall into this category will not be able to get care, and I assume that a large majority of people who fall into this category without care will die
• 2% of cases are fatal.

Regarding the distribution of risks, I forget the exact numbers, but it was something like:

• <40: 0.2% fatality rate
• 40-50: 1% fatality rate
• 50-60: 3% fatality rate
• 60-70: 8% fatality rate
• 70-80: 15% fatality rate.

There are similar dramatic jumps for fatality rates for people with comorbid conditions but it's unclear how much of that is the comorbidity vs how much of that is age of patient, and vice versa; older people are more likely to have comorbidities. So is it that older people have dramatically higher fatality rates because they are more likely to have comorbidities? (So if you're an otherwise-healthy older person, don't worry). Or is it that comorbidities don't really impact your outcome, but are overrepresented because age does and they correlate with age (so if you're a young person with hypertension, don't sweat it). This is currently unknown.

Assuming that all the other disease conditions scale accordingly (note: I have no idea if this is a reasonable assumption), if average fatality rate is 2% and under-40 fatality rate is 0.2%, then under-40 pneumonia rate is 1.5%, under-40 critical rate is 0.5%, and under-40 mild rate would, by process of elimination, be ~98%.

I am otherwise healthy, of average weight, with slightly below average blood pressure, slightly elevated pulse, no chronic health conditions, and no current acute health conditions. I don't smoke, I do vape infrequently, but I have more or less stopped since first hearing about coronavirus near the start of this month. Given that I have no comorbidities or other risk factors, I am currently working under the assumption that my personal prognosis is ~2% chance of pneumonia, 0.2% chance of death.

For the spread of this thing, various western sources have been reporting for a week or so now that they estimate that by Jan 1st, 2021, anywhere from 10 to 60% of the population will be infected. Doing the math on this, taking a middle value of 40% in that range, 327M * 0.4 * 0.02 => 2,616,000 deaths this year, with most of the casualties being older people.

However, as someone pointed out in one of the billion virus subreddits: >40 isn't that old and, more importantly, 40-60 y/os are critically important for our society. 40-60 y/os comprise the demographic in our society where most professional competence lays. The lead (real, not software) engineers at various companies, that age. The scientists who do R&D on important projects, that age. Managers who have overseen important facilities and projects, that age. Many of the medical professionals who will be critical in the weeks to come, that age. The disease might not be that bad, in the grand scheme of things, but there is horrific potential to disrupt our society for years to come.

I expect, some time soon, that areas in the US will go under lockdown. Either literal, explicit lockdown, a la what happened in Italy, or implicit, voluntary lockdown, as anyone with half a brain makes the sensible choice to self-quarantine to protect themselves. I don't know what a timeline on this looks like, but given the rapidity of developments within Italy, if it happened before the end of March, I would not be surprised.

I consider the current level of contagiousness to be a massive unknown. The official numbers out on this are quoting a basic reproduction number (the average number of people a given person infects) as anywhere from 2.5-7, but this statistic does not seem that useful to me. Doubling periods are being calculated as anything from 2 to 8 days, but at the moment I think most of our data on this reflects testing and not reality (eg I don't think the number of cases in Italy doubled in one day, I think the number of detected cases did). The reports out of China, South Korea, the Diamond Princess, and now Italy, are deeply concerning and imply a nearly magical level of contagiousness for this disease. At the same time, however, we don't seem to be seeing spread quite as much as I would have expected. As a concrete example: based on what we think we know about its level of contagiousness, I would expect that if one single person is infected and takes a 2+hr trip by plane, then basically every single person in that plane will become infected. If this was true, then I would expect hundreds of thousands of cases in the US by now. We quite obviously do not have hundreds of thousands of cases. This is a mystery I consider to be open for investigation.

All of this is to say: I am pretty fucking scared and I think it would be warranted for everyone else to be, as well

> Wear masks everywhere

More precisely, wear an effective mask and eye protection. Take a daily multi-vitamin. Monitor blood oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter.

Oximeter to measure your oxygen levels

This one has a ton of reviews but there are plenty others on Amazon reviewed to do well https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4

Mayo Clinic has pulse Ox (blood oxygen) levels below 90 as abnormal. I personally will not head to the hospital until I am hitting 90 or less.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/hypoxemia/basics/definition/sym-20050930

Make sure anyone in contact with her knows to stay away from people 60+ Or immune compromised in case they have contracted it. Older people are most at risk 😖

I have one of each of these and checking my blood 02 level they consistently read the same levels between the 2 devices and respond appropriately if I hold my breath (AKA they seem to work well) $25= https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?keywords=pulse+oximeter&qid=1583473680&sprefix=pulse&sr=8-9

$15= https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004BJT9OE?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image

Best wishes to your sister and all who she has been in contact with. By the time we are able to do any real level of surveillance testing this thing is going to be out of control - no chance of contact tracing 😖

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Touchless thermometer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NYYLDMG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Oxygen meter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I hope you stay well ! Below is a link for a pulse oximeter (FREE DELIVERY, NO PRIME- if this changes do prime trial for 1 dollar, and cancel just after delivery)

https://www.amazon.com/Zacurate-Fingertip-Oximeter-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=pulse+oximeter&qid=1604119699&sr=8-5

It may seem silly but, when my a member of my family had Covid it gave us an early alert that her oxygen may be dipping a bit too low to stay at home. Also if you feel strange or faint, or like you cannot stay awake and, your oxygen dips even a little that may be a sign that it is time to call 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636). You'll have a viable number to report to them and, be able to get some solid advice!

https://www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/index.html

It helps to stay upright and, fight, fight, fight!

Some options: chest seals, battle dressing, QuikClot gauze, tourniquet, locking forceps, medical shears, resuscitation mask, pulse oximeter. Not saying you have to buy from Amazon, of course, but those were the quickest results I could pull up.