Completely ignore projections, models, theories and future-casts.
Just look at the cold hard number of deaths week over week.
Posted on 03/29/2020 4:18:02 AM PDT by Liz
Like I said in ER 30 years. Don’t ever remember a flu season that required using local sports arenas for patients and bringing reefers because the morgues were full.
It may be that it works very good to prevent the asymptomatic from becoming “mild” and hence “works”. A decompensating patient who has already turned blue probably is not going to receive any benefit at all.
We have drugs for disease that are life threatening that we KNOW work and in an ICU setting still fail and subject patients to severe risks if you can save their life, like renal failure. If you can save a patient all but for his kidneys it is a good trade.
We are experiencing, IMHO, a failure of the healthcare system far beyond just “the virus”. We are seeing standards that have been in place since the FLexner Report of 1913 shredded to appease an angry mob.
I have not yet met a flubro who is a medical professional.
“FWIW - Though this rings true, it has apparently been going around for a while with the city name being changed. People were speculating about its authenticity when it was posted a couple days ago”
This is why we should be skeptical of non-peer-reviewed online accounts of any aspect of this COVID-19 story. The bias can go both ways and there’s no easy way to verify the story. This is why I also remain cautious regarding hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin. We need to wait the outcome of peer-reviewed controlled studies to know for certain. [I’m a physician with an MD and a PhD who does clinical trials for a living and prescribes hydroxychloroquine to 100s of patients with other diseases, BTW]
Thanks for posting. We are not ready for this.. but we will do our best.
Our youngest daughter was one of the last babies born in the old Womack. They were already moving into the new one and that section was fixing to close down and move over in a couple of days.
bfl
Wow. Sobering. Thanks.
Pushing it out to my medical contacts.
No mention of the average age of the patient in the ER......
bump
Yep, there is no reaching the flu bros.
You might as well try to teach calculus to a coconut.
Nor will you and I have come to suspect at least some of them are heavily invested in “aquarium cleaner”.
The doctor is laboring under the medical profession's constraints.......
He gets mucho credit for trying to get out the latest medical experiences.....FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES, ONLY.
A doctor cannot diagnose or prescribe medication without having examined the patient.
Have never heard of “citizenfreepress”
Completely ignore projections, models, theories and future-casts.
Just look at the cold hard number of deaths week over week.
(and zinc)
Do you think it’s made up, part of the grand conspiracy hoax?
Do you think the death numbers in the image above are made up, faked, part of a hoax too?
Wow.
My take is——the author is laboring under the medical profession’s constraints.......
A doctor would be remiss to make diagnoses or recommend medication without having first examined the patient.
He gets mucho credit for trying to get out the latest medical experiences.....FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES, ONLY.
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