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Thanks. An intelligent article from someone who is actually qualified to have an opinion!
TRY THE HCQ PROTOCOL!!
"Yes, we know about remdesivir and tocilizumab, convalescent plasma and maximum dose anti-coagulation, proning and APRV, steroids and cyclosporine. We’ve been trying all of that. There’s nothing that dramatically works and the occupancy is rising like a tide that will eventually drown you even though it ebbs and flows from the perspective of a single wave."
This writer has missed EVERYTHING that he could have learned over these past many weeks.I hope I NEVER see someone like this in my ER visit.
Poor oxygenation caused by the virus blocking hemoglobin oxygen function.
Hydroxy, with Zith And Zinc, EARLY.
There, I’m an ER Doc too.
A couple of things struck me. No mention of HCQ or zinc, so care is based upon stereotypes? I understand a high correlation is invited over but I hope you go beyond that. Ventilator care is hit or miss, eh? You’re expecting to intubate a patient who shows no signs of breathing distress is sitting up watching TV? Hayhaps it’s a blood transport issue. Both ng you are doing is cut my the patients, you say it’s wait and see so how about trying packed red cell transfusion. Sat levels rise, hey, you’re on to something.
“Yes, we know about remdesivir and tocilizumab, convalescent plasma and maximum dose anti-coagulation, proning and APRV, steroids and cyclosporine. We’ve been trying all of that. “
Hmm. What is missing in that list? Also the ICUs in places that it is bad are not being overwhelmed. Why is that going to change>?
Of course they're the same ones who have good reason to fear the "regular" flu.
I read the article and these comments and can only think, “When everyone is an expert, no one knows anything.”
Why are all the democratic-leaning news organizations countering the doctors and Trump about HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE effectiveness?
The strangest thing about this virus in this area is the way that it is bankrupting all of our hospitals and urgent care facilities. We had the first known cases and deaths in the USA here in the eastern parts of King and Snohomish Counties, but our hospitals all cleared out in late March and have basically been empty since.
Evergreen Hospitals and their affiliates the first to have deaths are losing $20 Million a month. A quarter of their employees have been layed off. My wife is a retired nurse and department head and I am a retired fire officer. We have lots of contacts and friends who work at hospitals and they are mostly telling us the same thing... they have no patients.
I assume that this doctor and his hospital have a different treatment protocol than what is being used around here because it does not sound like the same experience that has been described to us. Treatment protocols vary greatly from state to state, county to county, and even hospital to hospital, so I guess this is not that suprising. Unfortunately, the doctors who contribute regularly here have either been to busy to post much lately or have become frustrated by the experience of being shouted down by the large number of Covidiots active on the forum.
well, it is political....
Dr. Hakim wrote “Yes, we know about remdesivir and tocilizumab, convalescent plasma and maximum dose anti-coagulation, proning and APRV, steroids and cyclosporine.”
What is missing from that list?
The heck with the HCQ arguments. Tiresome to me. It’ll change when it changes. It’s all been said. Love to see the facts eventually come to light, if the Ministries of Truth allow us to know
Attack the author for that omission and you risk missing something important:
The author’s cogent picture of what economic devastation actually looks like is something sorely lacking in public statements and awareness
You can be sure slow joe (morning or hiding), can’t articulate it or respond to it.
Bookmarked.
A bald-faced lie. Fearporn.
No mention whatsoever of the “Trump pills”, hydroxychloroquine + azithromax/doxycycline + zinc.
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