The Guadalajara Reporter
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For those desiring a relatively inexpensive serological (blood) test that is not for diagnosis of Covid-19, but instead can indicate whether their body has mounted an immune response to the new coronavirus, options in the Guadalajara and Chapala area are multiplying.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro says he is prepared to order an immediate lockdown curtailing most activities in the state for two weeks if the coronavirus curve continues to spike.
“Doctors have learned some tips over the past two months of treating Covid,” said a U.S. physician retired at lakeside. “I thought he made some good suggestions.”
She was referring to a short, persuasive video in which journalist Christiane Amanpour interviews Dr. Richard Levitan, a U.S. emergency medicine and airways specialist, who rushed from his home in New Hampshire in March to volunteer for coronavirus work at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he trained decades ago.
One of the principal takeaways was Levitan’s plea to change standard treatment with ventilators, initiated after a patient suffers shortness of breath or blue lips and fingers, to earlier detection of low blood oxygen levels and treatment with nasal oxygen.
“They are still giving the same old advice here – don’t go to the hospital until you’re very short of breath,” said a 77-year-old retired American residing in Guadalajara, who has been diligently isolating himself since the start of the emergency. “I believe Dr. Levitan is saying that advice is all wrong, and you should go on oxygen as soon as your oxygen saturation levels start to fall. I’ve been monitoring my levels daily since I had heart surgery. I use a pulse oximeter that you put on your fingertip.”
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The prospect of flying in the days of the loosening of Covid-19 restrictions leaves many question marks.
One of the most memorable games of soccer ever took place exactly 50 years ago this Sunday at Guadalajara’s Jalisco Stadium.
In Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana, locally renowned as trendy and vibrant, residents feel themselves to be alternately basking in and contaminated by the near-constant festivity on Avenida Chapultepec, and by dozens of top-rated restaurants, hotels, bars, bookstores and more.
Probably few of us have ever read a study by an epidemiologist, and if we have, I would venture to guess that it lacked dramatic power. But “City of Omens,” with its title promising something more than dry science, is a compelling recent (2019) book by a scientist who doesn’t always write only for colleagues.
