Posted on 07/03/2020 6:08:13 PM PDT by BusterDog
It seems to be under control here in Maryland.
The took the bar and resturant activity outside where it’s safer.
How many lies do people have to see? You don't even have to read that deeply or look at the stats long to feel practically safer than you did before this thing.
The only thing that will cause the plummeted death count to go up will be a new way of counting.
If the published death count starts to rise, I will only shake my head and wait for 5 days later when it leaks out that if you died on the same continent of a known covid case you died of Covid.
Yes keep an eye on the death trend (an immediately assume they are lying if it goes up until there is evidence they aren't) ... really ... what more do people need to see? What is there left to even debate in terms of the dangers of Covid to anyone other than the compromised? And if someone is compromised - truly that sucks - but what's in that person's control is clear.
I guess you missed the part about staffing issues from a Dr.
Just because YOU dont see it doesnt mean it isnt happening out there
The Democrats and the media saw the fear diminishing, especially after Americans saw thousands of protesters out gallivanting in the streets.
So they've gone back to three months ago and started the whole fear process over again, with breathless stories that sound like no one has ever heard of the virus before.
It's obvious that they absolutely, positively have to keep this going until November, even if it kills them. And the ironic thing is they seem not to realize at all that that's exactly what's happening.
Most cases never show symptoms at all. They’ll be fine.
Some sh!t, eh?
Example # 23,457,897,276,702,674,077,352,725,637,895
of how the media and the government LIE to our faces.
I keep showing this to people, keep telling them to look at the death rate (which is what? .025%?) and they still can’t comprehend the truth of this swill.
I am so beyond disgusted.
Dr Huang along with Clay Jenkins is an idiot.
In March they were predicting 400,000 deaths in Texas with social distancing so we had to have a lockdown.
They had an overflow hospital set up in the Dallas civic center that got exactly ZERO patients before being dismantled.
Anyone who believes Dr. Huang is an idiot.
Aggie13:08p, 7/1/20AG
From a Doc and USAF Flight Surgeon friend I have known since 1980:
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Been awhile since I’ve sent info on COVID-19; assume you’re following latest developments. Here is something new & worth reading.
This week I was one of the COVID doctors in the hospital. Before I went on service, I had planned to share my experiences when I got home after my last shift. That didn’t happen because I was mentally and emotionally exhausted after being at the hospital for 15+ hours.
I am going to try to break things down so that the general public can understand, because I want everyone, not just my fellow healthcare workers, to be as scared as I am.
This is going to be long, but hopefully will be worth the read for someone.
For references purposes, I am a Hospitalist, which is sort of like your primary care doctor when you’re in the hospital. We manage your chronic medical conditions and most of your acute issues in the hospital and consult specialists when we need additional help with complex decision making or a specialized procedure to be performed. We are also the primary point of contact for your nurse on most issues.
I live in Arizona, the current COVID-19 hot spot. Arizona never really closed. Any level of closure that we obtained was the result of petitions with thousands of signatures from physicians. Despite pretty much being able to do anything you wanted to do except get your hair/nails done or eat out at a restaurant (carry out stayed open), people protested the state being closed. The state reopened immediately when criteria were put out to guide how and when states should reopen. To be clear, Arizona did not meet a single criteria for reopening. In addition, masks were not mandated. Governor Ducey avoided mandating masks and made it the responsibility of city Mayors to make any mandates. Mandatory masks were just implemented a few days ago.
As you have almost certainly seen in the news, the rapid reopening without mandated masks has been catastrophic. In a couple of weeks we have gone from a few hundred cases per day to around 3,500 cases per day. A few weeks ago, I was working at the COVID-free hospital designated to be the primary elective surgery campus within the network. The past few days, our recently reopened COVID Unit has been near or completely full. I shared the patient’s on the unit with one other hospitalist.
Before I went on service this week, I read anything and everything I could to prepare myself to be the COVID doc. I was up to date on all of the latest recommendations. I was a little nervous, but felt like I was armed with the information that would allow me to help my patients.
I quickly learned that there is no possible way to prepare for how to treat a COVID patient. There is no rhyme, reason, or pattern. There is no possible way to predict what will happen with your patient.
In my sign out to the doc taking over for me today, I prefaced the individual patient sign outs with, “one slightly improving, one with less oxygen requirements but possible new liver failure developing, everyone else getting worse.”
I have never seen anything like this. None of us have. We have no idea what we are doing. We are sharing evidence from small studies that could help and utilizing treatments that we think and hope are helpful. Of course, we also thought hydroxychloroquine was helpful a couple of months ago. So, we’re hopefully helping people, maybe hurting them, and trying our best. We are flipping people on their stomachs while wide awake on a machine pushing oxygen into their lungs to try and help; this is called the prone position, and it works, but you’re stuck in that position for as long as we can keep you there. The longer the better. Anyone on supplemental oxygen is receiving dexamethasone based on the European study that came out last week. We were using Remdesivir, but a patient I admitted two days ago is the last one that will receive it from our current stockpile. Convalescent plasma from patients that had COVID, recovered, and donated plasma is being administered, but studies suggest that antibody concentration diminishes by up to 90% within 2-3 months, so who knows if that’s even doing anything.
I realized in the past two days that oxygen saturation numbers that you see on the machines are completely worthless in many COVID patients. So, the one thing we thought we knew, that COVID causes profound hypoxia, was true, but it’s actually much worse than we thought. In order to figure out if you are hypoxic (low blood oxygen levels), a needle is stuck into an artery in your wrist as often as is needed. It hurts. A lot. I will have a needle stuck into your artery as often as I need to. I’m sorry, I know it hurts, but it’s for your own good.
In any other time, most of my patients would already be intubated on a ventilator. We are managing so many critically ill patients on regular hospital floors. If we sent everyone to the ICU that would normally be there based on their current status and put them all on ventilators, all resources would be depleted in a day.
The patients I cared for the past few days were the most miserable, uncomfortable, terrified patients I have seen in the past four years. I sat with them while they cried because they are scared that they will get worse and get intubated and die without ever seeing their loved ones again. I can’t comfort them by saying they’ll get better soon, because I don’t know that they will. All I can tell them is that we’re doing everything we can and I really hope they improve. I held a patients hand while she cried and screamed, “oh my god, I’m going to die, aren’t I? I’m dying” when I told her we couldn’t give her more oxygen without intubating her and putting her on life support. I then tried to comfort her children over the phone after I informed them they were not allowed to come in to the hospital to be with her. They asked if someone could be there to comfort her if she is going to die.
Many of my patients were young. Many have no underlying conditions that predispose them to a bad outcome, yet are one bad blood oxygen reading away from needing to be intubated.
COVID does not care who you are.
I am scared and you should be, too.
All of that is to send the following message:
Please, please, stay home if you can. If you need to go out, WEAR A MASK! Do not touch your face. Wash your hands and sanitize often. I can’t promise you won’t end up in the hospital with COVID even if you do all of these things, but I promise it’s the best shot you’ve got.
P.S. THANK YOU to all the amazing RNs, RTs, PCTs, Pharmacists, Pharmacy techs, lab techs, physical & occupational therapists, social workers, case managers, environmental service workers, and everyone else that makes it possible to care for these patients in the best way we know how. You don’t get enough credit. You all are the real MVPs.
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ADDENDUM: To be clear, COVID-19 is caused by a virus. This is a PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. It is not, never has been, and never will be a political issue. Politics have played a huge role in getting us into this mess, and it’s time to cut them out. COVID doesn’t discriminate, and it definitely doesn’t care who you’re going to vote for. When you see/hear/read anything related to COVID-19, pay attention to who is posting the information. If it is not coming from a medical professional, question your source.
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ADDENDUM-2: I am so incredibly shocked at how widely this has been shared. Thank you all! Please continue to share! Since people are reading this, I would like to use this platform to ask you to PLEASE talk with your loved ones about your wishes. If you have an advance directive, please bring it with you if you are unfortunately in need of hospitalization. If you do not have an advance directive, it’s time to get one. If we do not know what you would like to be done, we assume that the answer is everything. If your loved one or listed MPOA is unaware of your wishes, they will likely also err on the side of doing everything. Help them to make those very difficult decisions by making your wishes known. Do not wait until you are in the hospital, because it may be too late. Please look up what it means to be “full code” vs “DNR/DNI.” Know what you would want done to you.
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Antibody-positive patients in my state were included very early on on the totals but not anymore. I doubt TX is including them.
the most important sentence out of that post is this
“We were using Remdesivir, but a patient I admitted two days ago is the last one that will receive it from our current stockpile”
And another Dr on that site at a different location had enough for 1 patient and there was a dispute over who they would give it to
So it is all well and good to think you will have no problem if you catch covid...but if you do...no problem..drugs are available....maybe..maybe not
Be smart when you make your decisions that can affect the rest of your life.
Depends on what the definition of “overrun” means.
Having worked in hospital finance/administration for 34 years, the conventional wisdom is that a facility becomes “operationally full” at 70 percent occupancy. A 200 bed hospital may have 60 empty beds when only 70 percent full, but they have likely maxed out their avaiable staffing, skill mix, and supply chain resources. Long story short, always take hospital bed stats with a grain of salt that are not specific as to specialty beds and staffing.
I’m hearing more and more people lately talking about the “sequence”:
Russia! Russia! Russia!
Impeachment!
Pandemic!
As Ian Fleming so memorably put it, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”
Yeah, we don’t want to overwhelm the system with symptom-less people...
So the guy I posted whose dad was sitting in the ambulance because there was no room in the hospital MIGHT mean there are beds available but not enough staff to deal with new issues...or whatever else makes that determination.
I live in North Dallas. I go to 24 hour fitness every single day. Yesterday, people in line were laughing about this hoax. There was a line around the urgent care of people getting tested. It’s paranoia caused by a hoax.
I belong to a tennis group. About 150 on the What’s app. Not a single person of the guys have it. Or know they have it. Or had symptoms even if they did. Not a single one. This has to be the biggest hoax with resulting paranoia in the history of the Human race. I can’t believe it.
“Cases” are meaningless. How sick are they? Many tested positive because they were tested not because they were sick.
staffing issues skews not mean there are too many covid patients to handle which is the reason we were told we had to shut down. Just because one place says they have staffing issues (and like most of your posts this is unsubstantiated twitter postings) doesn’t mean it is widespread
Deaths per million in Texas are way down on the chart, 88 versus 1,713 in New Jersey, while I do not see deaths DIRECTLY due to COVID 19 listed, while the Atlantic reports,
CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus.
-Two weeks after the riots (incubation) we have a surge in cases
-Age group new cases = 20s-30s
-Age group rioters = 20s-30s
-Dramatic increase in testing capability past two weeks (coincidence?)
-Police departments see increase in officers testing positive (where were they two week ago? At the riots)
-Expanded definition of covid patients. New CDC standard is the “probable” case, where knowing someone w covid = new case
-Expanded list of covid symptoms to include runny nose makes you a covid patient
-Hospitals classifying patients as Covid when that was not the reason for admission. Admissions skyrocket and so does income to the hospitals
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