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Persons who enter the hospital's emergency room with upper respiratory complaints are issued a facemask and taken to a separate waiting room so as not to potentially infect others. He says he hopes healthy people with minor flu symptoms will follow the CDC's advice and stay home. "There's not much we're going to be able to do for you anyway, and we don't need you in the waiting room infecting the person with the broken arm or whatever," he says. "It's a virus, and it will work its course. If you're healthy...
...late for University of Alabama freshman Andrew Morris - he's already been infected. "It's not too bad," he says, stopping to adjust his facemask as he loads groceries into his car. "But I know somebody else who's probably getting it right now. A girl touched me earlier...
Back in the cramped Mexico City apartment he shares with two daughters and two grandchildren, Bonilla, 46, a maintenance worker, recounts his ordeal to TIME. He has been out of hospital for two days but is still coughing and spluttering behind a blue facemask, his head aching slightly as he finishes his course of anti-viral drugs. The Mexican government has tried to protect the names of swine flu victims, fearing publicity could stigmatize them. But Bonilla is unafraid to tell his tale, hoping his words will give the world better insight into the H1N1 virus. He also wants...
...hospital. Unlike her husband, she was exposed to the full media frenzy on the virus adding to her anxiety. "I couldn't get to see him at all, not even though glass. So I just had to imagine what he was going through," Arcos says, also wearing a facemask in their apartment. "I tried to tell myself he was strong. But then my other relatives would say how bad this swine...
...Quincy. Adams continued capitalizing on their best asset in their Assassins game, opting for a dining hall theme of spoons as weapons. FlyBy heard the requirement that the spoon make skin contact in order for a kill to count brought out hoodies and fleeces along with the occasional facemask and gloves. Yeah... told you these people were intense...