April 10. 2020

Lisa Merck

Nurse practitioner Lisa Merck contracted the coronavirus while on vacation last month in Hawaii. Merch appeared on the television program "Inside Edition" on Wednesday, speaking about her battle with the serious virus that has claimed the lives of 88,000 people worldwide.

Something the nurse stated during the interview caught my attention. She stated she has struggled with the virus for at least 32-days and it still "has not shed." Considering international guidelines state one is to self-isolate for 2-weeks, the virus remaining with people for over a month poses a serious problem regarding its spread.

 Another example would be Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson. We know he contracted the virus prior to March 27, 2020. Yet it continues to wallop him. Johnson is currently in recovery at the hospital, after spending 3-nights in the intensive care unit. Johnson has been infected with coronavirus for over 2-weeks. Therefore, 2-weeks of isolation is insufficient.

Reports have been surfacing for the past week and a half that some patients who tested positive for coronavirus, then negative for the infection after recovery, are now stricken with it again. This poses a public health risk regarding others becoming infected by people who thought the virus was out of their system after the internationally (WHO) stated 2-week incubation period. Doctors need to periodically test patients again who have recovered from coronavirus, until a sufficient amount of time has passed indicating they are in the clear.

STORY SOURCE

After a whirlwind Hawaii vacation, a CO woman returns home and tests positive for coronavirus

March 14, 2020 at 9:10 PM HST - Updated March 16 at 4:48 PM - HONOLULU, Hawaii - A Colorado woman who visited Hawaii for more than two weeks in February has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Lisa Merck, a 50-year-old nurse practitioner, visited Oahu, Maui and the Big Island between Feb. 3 and Feb. 18. On her way back home, she said she started getting sick. “I started having a tiny, tiny sniffly nose, then a few little sneezes, then muscle aches and pains,” she said.

“The next thing was extreme exhaustion. When I showered I was really felt out of breath and really tired. And then on March 1, 2, and 3rd, I got a fever.” She said a flu test came back negative. But she kept getting sicker, eventually forcing her to go to an emergency room at a Colorado hospital on March 8..

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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