Sabbath day

Sunday was Jasmine's and my first day off. I was stoked about a sabbath day. We heard rumor of a group of people going to Makeni which is where the other IMC ETC in Sierra Leone is located. That one is mostly staffed by nationals and NHS workers from the UK. (Many were on the same plane I was from Brussels a week ago). Jasmine, Dr. Matt, and I all caught a ride with the group going and thought we could pick up a few items at the grocery stores-Makeni is bigger than Lunsar and has 3 grocery stores (by comparison Lunsar has a gas station). However, while I knew yesterday was Sunday that didn't connect in my mind that everything would be closed...so, we did not go to the store. Our kitchen at the ETC isn't open at night-you have to bring snacks with you.
We did get a tour of the other site which included time in their lab which was fascinating. They explained the process of de-activating the virus then magnifying it to count viral loads. He also showed us several negative results and you could clearly see the curve on the positive result. Their ETC is fairly similarly designed to ours and has a little bigger bed capacity. They currently have fewer patients then we do though--Lunsar is in the Port Loko district which I believe currently has the most cases per day out of all the districts in the country-but Freetown, the capital, is in Port
Loko.
After we toured the site and realized everything in town was closed we returned and took it easy. The lady I wrote about Saturday--the lady struggling to breathe-she died last night before dinner :'-(

Thank you for praying for us. Thank you for praying for my health--my cold I came to SL with is gone!! Praise God!! It has been replaced by "chlorine cough" which seems like a dog's kennel cough to me. Many of us have it from the doffing procedure. It is much easier to deal with than the cold I brought with me!! :-)
I have been quite curious as to what the surface body temperature would be of staff coming out of PPE. A doctor I work with has been as well--she had been inside in the heat of the day over an hour, doffed, and took her temperature which was 101.5!!! I imagine prior to doffing it would have been even higher-doffing takes ten minutes at least and the chlorinated water is cold. However, there isn't a safe way to measure your temperature while in the high risk zone and I am not curious enough to try!!