Thanks for the reactions last page, thankfully I am pretty much fever free now! And my lungs feel pretty good too. But all in all it took me two weeks, though initially I thought I just had a massive headache due to whatever. I do hope it was corona, because that would mean I am safe now and able to help during the crisis.
As for my work (which I will be able to do soon again), My usual projects (for the WHO) are pretty much on hold. I work in a big hospital/medical center (not with patients) and they are currently assigning people to different tasks in relation to this crisis. Two people with my function (analyst) are now being trained for corona diagnostics and I will be providing technical support for other diagnostic processes (that align with protocols I was already using). I will also fill in a form that the hospital can use me for whatever they need, be it delivering coffee to the nurses/doctors or something else. Anyways, given the nature of this crisis, I thankfully have a good job security on the long run.
As for my voluntary work, which is team leader First Aid for the Red Cross, I am unfortunately not allowed to work at other locations than the hospital I work at (with good reason, offcourse). It sucks, because they need people more than ever. One of the reasons is that a lot of help is needed with our refugees (from Syria etc.). They do not have a citizenship and the same rights and will potentially be hit extremely hard because of this as well. So now our first aid volunteers are busy on that front. I hope they will have immunity tests soon, so that I will be able to support the Red Cross as well (if my illness did end up being corona).
Regarding the situation in the Netherlands; I get the feeling our healthcare system is very different from that of other European countries (mainly countries like Italy & Spain), where the goal is to heal basically everybody as soon as possible. Our healthcare system, or maybe our society, is more focused on quality of living, rather than stretching out a life when there's barely any chance for recovery. We're also not prone to place everybody who enters a hospital on the Intensive Care immediately. From what I gathered - and this may be wrong - is that in Italy, elderly people who already have a lower chance at survival, are put on the Intensive Care beds, essentially filling up places that now can not be used for younger folk, who then die as well. The death toll actually goes up if you try your best to save people with little chance, by not having the resources to aid those with a higher chance to survive. Sounds pretty terrible to type stuff like that out, but in these situations, I think the health care's goal should not be about saving everybody, because that's impossible - it should be about healing as many people as possible and, harsh as it sounds, this includes not using all your resources on people who are going to die anyway.
^ I don't know if that came across in the right way and I truly do not mean to offend anyone with it. I am not a healthcare worker (teacher here), but I have many friends that are. The situation in our hospitals right now is not nice, but the way our healthcare is organised - like I said, quality of life before prolongation - has actually made the situation more managable here as far as I can tell.
Indeed, as for the Netherlands, I think this is accurate.