Posted on 03/24/2020 5:45:04 PM PDT by LibWhacker
NEW YORK (AP) — A “cacophony of coughing” in packed emergency rooms. Beds squeezed in wherever there is space. Overworked, sleep-deprived doctors and nurses rationed to one face mask a day and wracked by worry about a dwindling number of available ventilators.
Such is the reality inside New York City’s hospitals, which have become the war-zone-like epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis.
Faced with an infection rate that is five times that of the rest of the country, health workers are putting themselves at risk to fight a tide of sickness that’s getting worse by the day amid a shortage of needed supplies and promises of help from the federal government that have yet to fully materialize.
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Patients initially showed up with fairly mild symptoms, ranging from a runny nose to a mild fever, concerned they contracted coronavirus. That shifted over the past week, McGreevy said, and now hospitals are receiving far sicker patients in need of life-saving intervention.
“These are people in severe respiratory distress, needing to be intubated and needing the intensive care unit,” he said. “We knew it was coming. We saw it in Italy and other places so we were prepared for it, and now we’re seeing it.”
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The best medical experts predicted 10 million Americans dead.
So the fear mongering is not working anymore.
Paranoia spreads like a virus.
The news of this new deadly disease is spreading fear more rapidly than the disease itself.
You may go to the ER with a minor cold and come home with COVID-19.
I only go to the ER if I feel I have no other choice. Urgent Care centers are a much better choice most of the time and much less costly.
How come hospitals in New York, and the NY public health departments didn't bother to prepare a stock of masks for use in this kind of emergency? Private corporations are more prepared.
So far Prudential Insurance has donated 135,000 masks, Facebook has donated 700,000, and Apple is going to donate 9 million masks. The masks from Prudential and Facebook are from the company's emergency supply rooms.
Why is it that insurance, and internet companies apparently have larger emergency supplies of masks than hospitals do?
When this crisis is over the hospital managers, and the NY state and local governments need to explain why they failed so badly in their preparations.
Sounds like hillary’s bathroom.
Seal off Manhattan now.
This is an AP written piece. Expect heavy drama and panic inspiring words to swipe the President with.
I put this all on the dem nominee for president- Cuomo - he’s the governor
Your CIA dollars at work.
It took me a second to get your joke. I am now doubting over in laughter!
What in the world was Facebook planning? That’s a lot of masks.
My guess is that the hospital CEOs pull down mid-seven-figure salaries and are accountable to nobody but a board of directors (of a non-profit) inclined to defer to the CEO’s supposed expertise.
That’s not a virus causing her to cough. It just a hair ball.
And they still aren’t to the point where their “rationing” ventilators. No matter how many articles they’ll write about how overrun the hospitals are. They just can’t wait to get there.
Good thing they went to the ER. If they didn’t have it before (nothing to change that or treat it anyway), they surely had it after they left, sitting right next to the few people with it. Not very good practice of social distancing.
IF nothing was done. Perhaps you haven't notice but the entire world has been shut down. However the real danger was always that hospitals would be overwhelmed by the sheer number of sick.
500 in ICUs, for roughly 60 metro hospitals. So each has 8-9 serious COVID patient-beds on average.
Thoughts?
All of what is described could end quite nicely with a little luck and diligence:
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Successful therapy against Covid-19 virus from New York State:
Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko
Board Certified Family Practitioner
501 Rt 208, Monroe, NY 10950
845-238-0000
March 23, 2020
To all medical professionals around the world:
My name is Dr. Zev Zelenko and I practice medicine in Monroe, NY. For the last 16 years, I have cared for approximately 75% of the adult population of Kiryas Joel, which is a very close knit community of approximately 35,000 people in which the infection spread rapidly and unchecked prior to the imposition of social distancing.
As of today my team has tested approximately 200 people from this community for Covid-19, and 65% of the results have been positive. If extrapolated to the entire community, that means more than 20,000 people are infected at the present time. Of this group, I estimate that there are 1500 patients who are in the high-risk category (i.e. >60, immunocompromised, comorbidities, etc).
Given the urgency of the situation, I developed the following treatment protocol in the pre-hospital setting and have seen only positive results:
1. Any patient with shortness of breath regardless of age is treated.
2. Any patient in the high-risk category even with just mild symptoms is treated.
3. Young, healthy and low risk patients even with symptoms are not treated (unless their circumstances change and they fall into category 1 or 2).
My out-patient treatment regimen is as follows:
1. Hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days
2. Azithromycin 500mg once a day for 5 days
3. Zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for 5 days
The rationale for my treatment plan is as follows. I combined the data available from China and South Korea with the recent study published from France (sites available on request). We know that hydroxychloroquine helps Zinc enter the cell. We know that Zinc slows viral replication within the cell. Regarding the use of azithromycin, I postulate it prevents secondary bacterial infections. These three drugs are well known and usually well tolerated, hence the risk to the patient is low.
Since last Thursday, my team has treated approximately 350 patients in Kiryas Joel and another 150 patients in other areas of New York with the above regimen.
Of this group and the information provided to me by affiliated medical teams, we have had ZERO deaths, ZERO hospitalizations, and ZERO intubations. In addition, I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with temporary nausea and diarrhea.
In sum, my urgent recommendation is to initiate treatment in the outpatient setting as soon as possible in accordance with the above. Based on my direct experience, it prevents acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prevents the need for hospitalization and saves lives.
With much respect,
Dr. Zev Zelenko
cc: President Donald J. Trump; Mr. Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff
Video at link
New York needs to be completely quarantined at this point. We need to rush more aid to help them, but people getting out of there are a threat to the rest of the country.
“The best medical experts predicted 10 million Americans dead.”
The highest possible number I saw from any expert was 1.7 million. Where did you see 10 million? I’m genuinely curious about that.
Good question - looking for the link. But posting others.
Worst-case coronavirus scenario: 214 million Americans infected, 1.7 million dead
Experts Simulated a Coronavirus Pandemic Last Year and It Killed 65 Million
Worst-case coronavirus scenario: 214 million Americans infected, 1.7 million dead
As the coronavirus spreads, one study predicts that even the best-case scenario is 15 million dead and a $2.4 trillion hit to global GDP
https://londondailyreport.com/coronavirus-spreads-15-million-dead/
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