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RE: Coronavirus-realistic fear or hyped?
(03-21-2020 05:34 PM)GRBRONCO Wrote:  
(03-21-2020 09:10 AM)ess Wrote:  Anecdotal, but worth a read

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.

“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy ****, 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.

“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 ****, I do not want to catch this and I don’t want anyone I know to catch this.

I wouldn’t put too much stock into this. The Doctor at Beaumont just got his had slapped and the hospital had to set the record straight after he tweeted “the ICU is full of young people on ventilators”which the hospital debunked.

And yet just tonight there is a report on the news that in Italy more and more of the patients are younger. Have a source for your Beaumont scenario? I did not see that in my news feed.
03-21-2020 05:43 PM
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