Given the symptoms reported... There was no reason to expect anything out of the ordinary.

“They were not thinking that these symptoms were compatible with hantavirus. Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” Padilla said.

At the moment of leaving this comment at least two people completely missed your sarcasm

well i guess that means we should either remove it or get wasted in the comments on horse paste?

Fine. Here’s my credit card. Now can you just relax?

Fake News?!!!

If you'd actually read the article instead of jumping straight from the headline to the funny quip you thought of:

Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” [Spanish health minister] Padilla said.

This doesn't sound like a discrimination thing; she literally described a cough that went away days ago and an anxiety she was feeling.

“Bloody vomit and passing out with a 43° fever? Bitch youe BMI is 33 what do you expect?”

What? What are you referencing here?!?! That's beyond medical malpractice, holy crap...

I agree with the medical misogyny part but the hand washing nurses part is incorrect AFAIK. They weren't washing their hands either but the doctors were working on cadavers and so more riddled with nasty bacteria.

Women giving birth in the street had higher survival rates than either of the two hospitals in question which is fucking wild.

Half arsed history does a really great episode on it. Episode 91. Highly recommended.

Even after Semmelweis forced everyone to wash their hands and proved how life saving it was, he got enormous pushback for the notion that doctors could be killing their patients. Arrogance costing lives.

Statistically likely they would treat a man more seriously though. Women are far too often dismissed with anxiety or just dismissed altogether.

It didn't actually happen. There was some confusion and their souce was talking about a different woman who didn't test positive. The Guardian has retracted the article

When I was suffering from lymes during the pandemic and couldn't get out of the couch after work, I went to an infectious disease specialist (didn't know I had it yet). My blood tests came back positive for lymes but he was insistent that I didn't actively have it and only had it in the past. He told me I had "pandemic fatigue."

Went to a lymes specialist after who put me on a wild bunch of antibiotics for a while. Pretty much saved my life. I can't describe in accurate words how lymes made me feel. People in my family were even telling me I was being lazy and needed to get off the couch. All I did was work and then come home and crash for weeks. No one gave a damn but this one doctor.

Infuriating to think about.

Yeah, surprised they didn’t tell her it was because she’s overweight.

In most times, maybe. But she reported symptoms after it was a known hantavirus outbreak. A more preferable response would have been "well, you don't really match the symptoms, so avoid close contact and get some rest, and we'll run a test anyway".

Assuming they have the capability to test. I assume it's a limited number of disposable kits. They may have wanted to save them for potential cases that didn't have such mild symptoms, because even if they had tested and confirmed her case, I don't know if they had any treatment options available at that time.

Edit: and the article has been retracted. Turns out she didn't have hantavirus after all!