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treated several seriously ill young patients — and their lung
scans were “nothing short of terrifyin
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 19, 2020, 11:19 am
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Thu, 03/19/2020 - 11:30
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com
SNIPPET:
According to the researchers, COVID-19 could still actually be
detected on plastic and steel surfaces “after three days”… :o
On plastic and stainless steel, viable virus could be detected
after three days
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/>On cardboard, the virus was not viable after 24 hours
👍.
On copper 👍, it took 4 hours for the virus to become
inactivated.
In terms of half-life, the research team found that it takes
about 66 minutes for half the virus particles to lose function
if they are in an aerosol droplet.
That means that after another hour and six minutes, three
quarters of the virus particles will be essentially inactivated
but 25% will still be viable.
Some people that get this virus only experience minor symptoms
the entire time, and that is definitely good news. 👍
But many others have been hit extremely hard 🥵. Some
survivors experienced “blinding pain” for weeks, and many felt
like they were constantly being suffocated.
And even if you survive after going through all that, there is a
good chance that your lungs could be permanently damaged for the
rest of your life. In fact, one Belgian doctor says that the
lung damage that he has been witnessing is “nothing short of
terrifying”…
A Belgian doctor working to battle the coronavirus says he’s
treated several seriously ill young patients — and their lung
scans were “nothing short of terrifying,” according to reports.
Dr. Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in Aalst, said an
increasing number of people between the ages of 30 and 50 have
presented with severe symptoms, despite having “blank medical
records” that show no underlying conditions that would make them
high-risk, the Brussels Times reported.
So please stay at home as much as possible in the coming days.
You do not want this virus.
Just like other countries, it appears that our medical system
will soon be overwhelmed. Already, hospitals across America are
setting up tents and bringing doctors out of retirement in order
to get ready for the expected surge in patients.
But if this virus starts spreading as wildly as it has in Italy,
it won’t be nearly enough. Just check out what is currently
taking place in one northern Italian city…
Funeral services are overwhelmed in Bergamo, the northern
Italian city hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, with a
crematorium operating 24 hours a day, The Washington Post
reported on Monday.
There is now a waiting list for burials there, and coffins of
the deceased awaiting services have overflowed two hospital
morgues and a cemetery morgue, The Post reported.
Many would like to believe that the same thing won’t happen
here, but the truth is that the United States is on the exact
same trajectory as Italy.
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[center]What Is Our Country Going To Look Like If Millions Of
Americans Start Dying From COVID-19?
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Agelbert NOTE: Italy COVID-19 count as of today (click on image
for more info):
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Hat Tip to Kevin Sandbloom of Black Bear News for Pointing these
stories out
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 19, 2020, 5:09 pm
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[move]China has no new infections of the coronavirus
domestically for the first time since the start of a crisis that
has sickened over 80,000 Chinese people. But what could be a
sign the country has defeated the fatal pathogen is likely to
just be a temporary reprieve.[/move]
Updated on March 18, 2020, 9:39 PM EDT
[center]As China’s Virus Cases Reach Zero 👍, Experts
Warn of Second Wave
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Danielle Zoellner ,The Independent•March 18, 2020
[center]Coronavirus: California prepared to enact martial law if
its a 'necessity', governor says[/center]
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PROFOUND AND FACT-BASED DATA
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 19, 2020, 9:59 pm
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[center]HOW TO BEAT THIS THING – WITHOUT RUINING THE ECONOMY
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[center]PROFOUND AND FACT-BASED DATA[/center]
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Profound and fact-based data that is being deliberately ignored
by the news media and government.
DELIBERATE OFFICIAL IGNORANCE ABOUT THE VIRUS
There is a way to beat this thing without ushering in a severe
global depression.
Small business is NOT going to survive this especially in the
United States.
Millions are employed by small business.
Overlook the short nonsense at the beginning.
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The Politics of a Public Health Failure, and the Way Forward
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 19, 2020, 11:43 pm
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[center]The Politics of a Public Health Failure, and the Way
Forward[/center]
3,408 views•Mar 19, 2020
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The Real News Network
391K subscribers
TRNN's Marc Steiner talks to a social futurist about how
progressive governing creates a future for us all in the wake of
the coronavirus pandemic.
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📢 Port Houston has suspended operations at its two
container terminals ...
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 20, 2020, 11:50 am
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[move]Operations Suspended at Port Houston Container Terminals
After Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19[/move]
By Mike Schuler on Mar 19, 2020 12:07 pm
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Update: Port Houston container terminals are set for reopening
for regular business March 20. Full statement at the bottom.
Port Houston has suspended operations at its two container
terminals after a worker there tested positive for COVID-19.
The two terminals impacted are the Bayport and Barbours Cut
terminals, which collectively handle approximately two-thirds of
all […] Read full story...
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COVID-19 projected patient count will exceed available hospital
beds just after May 15, 2020 😨 ...
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 20, 2020, 2:03 pm
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CleanTechnica
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March 20th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan
[center]Stanford Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology’s COVID-19
“Fiasco” Article, + Some Critiques
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Agelbert COMMENT: Zach, here is the bottom line issue that
people living in the USA MUST consider:
The PEAK of COVID-19 INFECTION in the USA will occur, according
to a recent study discussed in the following video from Climate
Scientist 👍 Paul Beckwith, between early May and the
middle of July of this year.
At the top of that peak, the required hospital beds will be
about 900% greater than the available hospital beds. IOW, the
MEDICAL system WILL BE OVERWHEMLED. The moment the COVID-19
projected patient count will exceed available hospital beds is
just after May 15, 2020.
The peak is roughly June 15 and the point at which the system
can handle the COVID-19 patient load again is July 15, 2020.
This is an approximation.
The video shows that different states will peak at different
times.
[center]Modelling the Coming Coronavirus Tsunami: Imperial
College Paper[/center]
4,039 views•Mar 18, 2020
Paul Beckwith
19.7K subscribers
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> "This new paper from Imperial College models the expected
number of cases of coronavirus and the total number of deaths
that we would expect in both the UK (Great Britain) and in the
USA. The modelling starts with a worst case scenario of no
interventions, and projects total deaths of 510,000 in the UK
(peaking early June) and 2.2 million in the USA (peaking late
June) with a caveat: these are direct deaths, not accounting for
spillover effects to other critical care patients without the
virus). It then models the effects of so-called
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) to shift the curve to a
later date, and lower the peak. These include shutting schools
and universities, social distancing, self-isolation,
quarantines, to shutting cities and countries."
--- End Quote ---
The only quibble I have with the projected availble hospital
beds count is that automobile accidents and other trauma injury
causing events are now, and for the next six months or so,
radically reduced 👍 due to social distancing
precautions. That will make more beds available for COVID-19
victims.
I am not a doctor, but I have a scientific background in
biology. You do not need to believe a word I say. Just watch the
video and plan accordingly for this COVID-19 Pandemic 😱
summer.
IMHO, the economy in general, and automobile sales in
particular, will TOTALLY CRATER for at least six months.
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Trump Gets In Bidding War With States For Face Masks. That's It,
That's The Headline
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Date: March 21, 2020, 10:54 am
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Trump Gets In Bidding War With States For Face Masks. That's It,
That's The Headline.
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Liz Dye March 20, 2020 09:13 AM
Just when you think they can't possibly find a new way to fuck
it all up, the Trump administration goes and outbids state
governments on sales of face masks and sterile gowns for
hospital personnel dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Oh, we wish we were kidding! But, nope. Here's Massachusetts
Governor Charlie Baker on a phone call with Trump yesterday.
--- Quote ---
> BAKER: We took very seriously the push that you made
previously on one of these calls, that we should not just rely
on the stockpile and that we should go out and buy stuff and put
in orders and try to create pressure on manufacturers and
distributors. And I gotta tell you that on three big orders we
lost to the Feds.
>
> So, my question is, could you give some of these guys some
guidance that says, the states are doing what the Feds want,
trying to create their own supply chain on this, and that people
should be responsive to that? Because, I got a feeling that if
someone has the chance to sell to you or to sell to me, I am
going to lose on every one of those.
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And then Trump chuckled. FOR REAL. Because, what could ever be
funnier than the federal government making it harder and more
expensive for the states to get their hands on personal
protective equipment (PPE) in a highly contagious viral
pandemic?
We are old enough to remember when Trump told the states to get
their shit together and stop relying on the Feds to supply them
with everything. Because we are exactly 22 hours old.
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> TRUMP: The federal government is not supposed to be out there
buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we're
not a shipping clerk. The governors are supposed to be — as with
testing, the governors are supposed — are supposed to be doing
it.
>
> We'll help out, and we'll help out wherever we can. And we can
buy in volume and, in some cases, great volume — with the masks,
as an example, which were really a problem. We have helped out,
and there are right now millions of masks being made. But this
is really for the local governments, governors, and people
within the state, depending on the way they divided it up. And
they'll do that, and they're doing a very good job of it.
--- End Quote ---
It was YESTERDAY, just a little while before that phone call,
when Trump lectured the nation's governors to man up and quit
running to Big Daddy Central government to help them keep
American citizens alive. And it was SIX WEEKS AGO when
virologists in Seattle tried without success to get the CDC to
approve the University of Washington's coronavirus test kit. But
go off, Poppy about states needing to pull their own weight!
A rational person might argue that the federal government, with
its vast negotiating power, should go out and bulk purchase
enough supplies for all the states, instead of making them bid
against each other to see whose front line medical personnel
will be spared having to tie bandanas around their faces as
makeshift masks. Indeed, after Trump stopped laughing, he
acknowledged as much, saying, "Prices are always a component of
that also. And maybe that's why you lost to the feds, OK, that's
probably why." Ya think?
A rational person might also wonder when Trump is going to get
around to invoking the Defense Production Act, as he promised on
Wednesday, to conscript businesses into ramping up production to
meet the coming medical demand. Because there's not a huge
margin in bulk PPE sales, so companies may not actually be
lining up to bid on it.
But then that rational person would smack himself upside the
head for thinking such dirty, socialistic thoughts. The market,
in its infinite wisdom, will provide!
After New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said that her
state had also been outbid on PPE by the federal government,
Mike Pence jumped in to assure the callers that it wouldn't
happen again. So anyway, no harm, no foul, right? This is all
going GREAT.
[Press Conference Transcript / Bloomberg]
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A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19
DIR By: Surly1
Date: March 21, 2020, 1:23 pm
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So what are we really talking about with Covid-19? A bad cold?
Uh... no.
[center]A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From
COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
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“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first
coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy
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gasping
for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”
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A medical worker treats a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care
unit in Italy. Across the globe, health care providers are using
ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients. (Flavio Lo
Scalzo/Reuters)
by Lizzie Presser
March 21, 5 a.m. EDT
As of Friday, Louisiana was reporting 479 confirmed cases of
COVID-19, one of the highest numbers in the country. Ten people
had died. The majority of cases are in New Orleans, which now
has one confirmed case for every 1,000 residents. New Orleans
had held Mardi Gras celebrations just two weeks before its first
patient, with more than a million revelers on its streets.
I spoke to a respiratory therapist there, whose job is to ensure
that patients are breathing well. He works in a medium-sized
city hospital’s intensive care unit. (We are withholding his
name and employer, as he fears retaliation.) Before the virus
came to New Orleans, his days were pretty relaxed, nebulizing
patients with asthma, adjusting oxygen tubes that run through
the nose or, in the most severe cases, setting up and managing
ventilators. His patients were usually older, with chronic
health conditions and bad lungs.
Since last week, he’s been running ventilators for the sickest
COVID-19 patients. Many are relatively young, in their 40s and
50s, and have minimal, if any, preexisting conditions in their
charts. He is overwhelmed, stunned by the manifestation of the
infection, both its speed and intensity. The ICU where he works
has essentially become a coronavirus unit. He estimates that his
hospital has admitted dozens of confirmed or presumptive
coronavirus patients. About a third have ended up on
ventilators.
His hospital had not prepared for this volume before the virus
first appeared. One physician had tried to raise alarms, asking
about negative pressure rooms and ventilators. Most staff
concluded that he was overreacting. “They thought the media was
overhyping it,” the respiratory therapist told me. “In
retrospect, he was right to be concerned.”
He spoke to me by phone on Thursday about why, exactly, he has
been so alarmed. His account has been condensed and edited for
clarity.
“Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad,
but we deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well,
it’s probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing
patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and
it’s a lot more frightening.”
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> This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy
people.
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“I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of
shocked. I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a
minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like
they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be
perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal
support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden,
they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t
breathe at all.”
“We have an observation unit in the hospital, and we have been
admitting patients that had tested positive or are presumptive
positive — these are patients that had been in contact with
people who were positive. We go and check vitals on patients
every four hours, and some are on a continuous cardiac monitor,
so we see that their heart rate has a sudden increase or
decrease, or someone goes in and sees that the patient is
struggling to breathe or is unresponsive. That seems to be what
happens to a lot of these patients: They suddenly become
unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.”
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> The lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where the
air would normally be.
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“It’s called acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS. That
means the lungs are filled with fluid. And it’s notable for the
way the X-ray looks: The entire lung is basically whited out
from fluid. Patients with ARDS are extremely difficult to
oxygenate. It has a really high mortality rate, about 40%. The
way to manage it is to put a patient on a ventilator. The
additional pressure helps the oxygen go into the bloodstream.
“Normally, ARDS is something that happens over time as the lungs
get more and more inflamed. But with this virus, it seems like
it happens overnight. When you’re healthy, your lung is made up
of little balloons. Like a tree is made out of a bunch of little
leaves, the lung is made of little air sacs that are called the
alveoli. When you breathe in, all of those little air sacs
inflate, and they have capillaries in the walls, little blood
vessels. The oxygen gets from the air in the lung into the blood
so it can be carried around the body.
“Typically with ARDS, the lungs become inflamed. It’s like
inflammation anywhere: If you have a burn on your arm, the skin
around it turns red from additional blood flow. The body is
sending it additional nutrients to heal. The problem is, when
that happens in your lungs, fluid and extra blood starts going
to the lungs. Viruses can injure cells in the walls of the
alveoli, so the fluid leaks into the alveoli. A telltale sign of
ARDS in an X-ray is what’s called ‘ground glass opacity,’ like
an old-fashioned ground glass privacy window in a shower. And
lungs look that way because fluid is white on an X-ray, so the
lung looks like white ground glass, or sometimes pure white,
because the lung is filled with so much fluid, displacing where
the air would normally be.”
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A screenshot of chest radiographs of a man suspected to have
COVID-19. (Obtained by ProPublica via the Radiological Society
of North America, cited in the paper “Severe Acute Respiratory
Disease in a Huanan Seafood Market Worker: Images of an Early
Casualty” by Lijuan Qian, Jie Yu and Heshui Shi.)
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> This severity ... is usually more typical of someone who has a
near drowning experience ... or people who inhale caustic gas.
--- End Quote ---
“With our coronavirus patients, once they’re on ventilators,
most need about the highest settings that we can do. About 90%
oxygen, and 16 of PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure, which
keeps the lung inflated. This is nearly as high as I’ve ever
seen. The level we’re at means we are running out of options.
“In my experience, this severity of ARDS is usually more typical
of someone who has a near drowning experience — they have a
bunch of dirty water in their lungs — or people who inhale
caustic gas. Especially for it to have such an acute onset like
that. I’ve never seen a microorganism or an infectious process
cause such acute damage to the lungs so rapidly. That was what
really shocked me.”
--- Quote ---
> You’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it
is choking you ...
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“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first
coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy
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/>this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy,
gasping
for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out
of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of
breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth,
moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all
the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them. They
really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re
in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with
fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so
you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is
choking you, but you are drowning.
“When someone has an infection, I’m used to seeing the normal
colors you’d associate with it: greens and yellows. The
coronavirus patients with ARDS have been having a lot of
secretions that are actually pink because they’re filled with
blood cells that are leaking into their airways. They are
essentially drowning in their own blood and fluids because their
lungs are so full. So we’re constantly having to suction out the
secretions every time we go into their rooms.”
--- Quote ---
> I do not want to catch this.
--- End Quote ---
“Before this, we were all joking. It’s grim humor. If you are
exposed to the virus and test positive and go on quarantine, you
get paid. We were all joking: I want to get the coronavirus
because then I get a paid vacation from work. And once I saw
these patients with it, I was like, Holy
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/>I do not want to catch this and I don’t want anyone I know to
catch this.
“I worked a long stretch of days last week, and I watched it go
from this novelty to a serious issue. We had one or two patients
at our hospital, and then five to 10 patients, and then 20
patients. Every day, the intensity kept ratcheting up. More
patients, and the patients themselves are starting to get sicker
and sicker. When it first started, we all had tons of equipment,
tons of supplies, and as we started getting more patients, we
started to run out. They had to ration supplies. At first we
were trying to use one mask per patient. Then it was just: You
get one mask for positive patients, another mask for everyone
else. And now it’s just: You get one mask.
“I work 12-hour shifts. Right now, we are running about four
times the number of ventilators than we normally have going. We
have such a large volume of patients, but it’s really hard to
find enough people to fill all the shifts. The
caregiver-to-patient ratio has gone down, and you can’t spend as
much time with each patient, you can’t adjust the vent settings
as aggressively because you’re not going into the room as often.
And we’re also trying to avoid going into the room as much as
possible to reduce infection risk of staff and to conserve
personal protective equipment.”
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> Even if you survive ... it can also do long-lasting damage.
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“But we are trying to wean down the settings on the ventilator
as much as possible, because you don’t want someone to be on the
ventilator longer than they need to be. Your risk of mortality
increases every day that you spend on a ventilator. The high
pressures from high vent settings is pushing air into the lung
and can overinflate those little balloons. They can pop. It can
destroy the alveoli. Even if you survive ARDS, although some
damage can heal, it can also do long-lasting damage to the
lungs. They can get filled up with scar tissue. ARDS can lead to
cognitive decline. Some people’s muscles waste away, and it
takes them a long time to recover once they come off the
ventilator.
“There is a very real possibility that we might run out of ICU
beds and at that point I don’t know what happens if patients get
sick and need to be intubated and put on a ventilator. Is that
person going to die because we don’t have the equipment to keep
them alive? What if it goes on for months and dozens of people
die because we don’t have the ventilators?
“Hopefully we don’t get there, but if you only have one
ventilator, and you have two patients, you’re going to have to
go with the one who has a higher likelihood of surviving. And
I’m afraid we’ll get to that point. I’ve heard that’s happening
in Italy.”
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List of Novel 🦠 👉 Coronavirus
🤧🤒🤮🤢 Dashboards 😷
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Date: March 21, 2020, 1:34 pm
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[center]List of Novel 🦠 👉 Coronavirus
🤧🤒🤮🤢 Dashboards 😷
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This is a list of Coronavirus dashboards that have been created
with the Esri platform, the same platform as the Johns Hopkins
dashboard.
Click on Johns Hopkins dashboard below image for update:
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Quality varies but there are some interesting dashboards in
different areas like a dispersion daily update and some that are
focused on certain countries or areas.
The actual name of the virus is SARS-CoV-2. The name of the
disease it causes is COVID-19. The "type" of virus is a
Coronavirus. These terms and COVID-19 seem to be used
interchangeably. The WHO (World Health Organization) named the
disease.
🕯️ More info:
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People put on ventilators have a 30% chance of dying within a
year, even if they survive COVID-19
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 21, 2020, 2:23 pm
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>
> So what are we really talking about with Covid-19? A bad cold?
Uh... no.
>
> [center]A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure
From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
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>
> [b]“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my
first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy
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/>this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy,
gasping
for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”
>
> by Lizzie Presser
>
> March 21, 5 a.m. EDT
>
>
> ... “But we are trying to wean down the settings on the
ventilator as much as possible, because you don’t want someone
to be on the ventilator longer than they need to be. Your risk
of mortality ☠️ increases every day that you spend
on a ventilator. 😖
>
> ... What if it goes on for months and dozens of people die
because we don’t have the ventilators? 🤔
>
> “Hopefully we don’t get there, but if you only have one
ventilator, and you have two patients, you’re going to have to
go with the one who has a higher likelihood of surviving. And
I’m afraid we’ll get to that point. I’ve heard that’s happening
in Italy.”
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The above is is an excellent, MUST READ, article. Thank you for
posting it. I want to add more to the issue of health risks from
ventilator use. The medical stats in the USA reveal that anyone
who doctors put on a ventilator has a 30% chance of of dying
within a year. That wasn't in the article above, but the author
made clear how future health compromised anyone requiring a
ventilator is, even if they survive COVID-19. Here is what
happened at Wuhan:
SNIPPET:
The median time from dyspnoea to intubation was 10·0 days (IQR
5·0–12·5) for patients who received invasive mechanical
ventilation and the time from invasive mechanical ventilation to
occurrence of ventilator associated pneumonia was 8·0 days
(2·0–9·0; figure 1) ... ...
The median time from illness onset to invasive mechanical
ventilation was 14·5 days (12·0–19·0).
Read more: 🥺
[center]Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult
inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort
study
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Another VERY related issue of DEATHS from Hospital Acquired
Infections in the USA is not being discussed because, uh, we've
got such a "great 🙄 medical system".
I don't have the stats on hand but the number is HUGE.
I found the stats. Enjoy:
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/>Contaminated surfaces increase cross-transmission[/center]
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimated roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated
infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria
and fungi combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each
year.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection
Here's the 'LET"S GET REAL HERE!' Medical Profit Complex TRUTHS
that you will NEVER read about from health care professionals in
the USA, no matter how well intentioned:
There is NO CURE, OR EFFECTIVE THERAPY AVAILABLE to [b]COVID-19
victims in a modern US Hospital, PERIOD.[/b] If you think they
have tools that will "make it all better", you are fooling
yourself. Their MAIN MOTIVE IS PROFIT, NOT CARE. I know it is
real hard for all those happy Capitalists out there to wrap
their brains around the fact that care, being subordinate to
profit in the USA Medical Complex, has resulted in a ruinously
degraded quality of the health care you get, but that is the
truth.
The exception to that rule is trauma care from a car accident or
broken bones from falling off the roof or something like that.
Trauma care is EXCELLENT and must be used when you have a
traumatic injury.
COVID-19 "care" is a VERY different story.
Even if you think I'm some "crazy reclusive paranoid commie",
please look at these irrefutable facts about people who get
COVID-19. The moment a person comes down with COVID-19, their
immune system is SEVERELY compromised. When they are taken to a
hospital, the possibility of DEATH from an acquired infection AT
THE HOSPITAL is MUCH HIGHER than if they had stayed at home.
Finally, there is that "minor" issue of hospital bills when you
are in critical condition. When a doctor decides you need a
ventilator, THAT IS CRITICAL CONDITION. That means you go to the
ICU. That means any and all insurance coverage will NOT cover
within a week, at the most. If you are in an ICU for three weeks
or more, that means GIGANTIC bills in the hundred of thousands
of dollars. There is NOTHING more costly than ICU "care" (of
course operations are hugely expensive, but normally you CAN
find out in advance if they are covered by insurance).
So, unless you're extremely wealthy, a COVID-19 caused extended
Hospital ICU "care" will bankrupt you on behalf of the Medical
Profit Complex. 👎 You rich folks had better think about
the ventilator use caused 30% chance of dying within a year...
I am in my seventies. My wife is a decade younger. I know what I
am going to do if I get COVID-19. I figure my wife will do the
same.
I am NOT
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/> going to a hospital, here in Vermont, unless I am forced. And
even then, I will do so screaming that I will not pay them a
NICKEL for "care" beyond what Medicare (and Blue Cross, which I
also have) covers.
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If a hospital in the USA could cure you, make you more
comfortable, or increase your longevity, then it would be
rational to go to a hospital. With COVID-19 victims they can, at
present, DO NONE OF THOSE THINGS. It is therefore, IMHO, not
rational to go to a hospital if you are infected with COVID-19.
I will stay home if I get COVID-19. If I die in my home, at
least my wife will have our savings to help her out for a while.
If I die during "HAPPY CAPITALIST COVID-19 HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE
IN THE USA", she will have NOTHING.
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