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re: This respiratory therapist treats coronavirus in New Orleans.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 5:42 am to DMAN1968
Posted on 3/22/20 at 5:42 am to DMAN1968
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A real respiratory therapist knows this without needing a study.
Yep, that idiot was quoting a research paper from an RC Journal, thinking it could work., but didn’t quite read the entire thing
I’m sure he googled it.
No way in hell that concept would work. It just shows you how much the average person, who doesn’t work in the medical field, doesn’t know jack shite about how any of this stuff works..
All of this, my friend’s wife is a nurse and she said is all hearsay... Unless you’re in the thick of it, you don’t know what the hell is going on..
This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 5:49 am
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 5:49 am to Hangover Haven
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The CDC estimates that 38 million in the US have had "the flu" this year, so far. Of those, 23,000 have died from it (although usually it's from the pneumonia that sets it). The chance of dying from the flu, then, is 1 in 1652. With the Chinese Virus, in the US, at this moment, it's 1 in 80.
Disparity in amount of testing between the two make this all but meaningless
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:07 am to EA6B
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My wife’s daughter is a RN
Pics?
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:10 am to Dead End
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heard he also said lockdown for everyone. The National Guard is in a briefing about delivering Amazon packages.
This shite is so fricking stupid.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:26 am to PrinceVegeta
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Obesity (BMI >30), diabetes, and high blood pressure make you more susceptible too.
Then 90% of Louisiana is in the high risk category?
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:31 am to moneyg
quote:Was this respiratory therapist unemployed before CV-19?
He says the serious cases are serious...which we knew.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:35 am to PrinceVegeta
The worst part of any crisis or emergency is the people who wallow in the gloom and doom and constantly try to highlight the most negative in every situation. It's a perverse enjoyment that I'll never get
Posted on 3/22/20 at 8:37 am to PrinceVegeta
quote:frick you
He also says healthy people in their 40s are getting sick and out on respirators. So y’all be careful if that applies to you.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:21 am to PrinceVegeta
The entire country has been locked down for the first time in the history of the country over the virus, how much worse could it possibly be?
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:34 am to PrinceVegeta
I’m a big LSU fan that lives over here in Fairhope, AL, and I’ve always come to this board to read up on LSU football.
FWIW - My fiancé is an ER nurse at a hospital here in Baldwin county (I don’t want to be specific due to fear of word getting out). She also suffers from asthma. Since Tuesday of this past week, they’ve gotten a few patients (young, middle aged, and older) who have come in sick with pneumonia like symptoms. Some with no known underlying conditions. They ran x-rays on each of their lungs, and she told me their lungs were absolutely mauled by infection. Not even close to regular pneumonia on anything else they’ve ever seen. Tylenol wasn’t even reducing their fever. They’ve tested these patients, have yet to get the results back, but both she and staff there feel confident they are going to test positive. Very simply put, my fiancée is extremely scared right now being she has asthma and is on the frontline coming into contact with these patients. To make matters even worse, she’s telling me the hospital has ran out of facemasks and she’s having to reuse hers. Because of how bad she’s telling me it is, I’m also extremely concerned and worried for her.
Also, FWIW - I work for a law firm, also here in Baldwin county. Our head attorney forwarded everyone in our firm this email yesterday:
This is from Patrick Wiater head of ortho/trauma at Beaumont RO, largest hospital in Michigan.
“Hi everyone. Hope all is well.
I implore you to take this covid 19 seriously. It is real. Society is teeming with it. The numbers you see in media are the tip of the iceberg.
The ICU in the hospital is full of young adults on ventilators fighting for their lives. A medical assistant I work with is covid 19 positive on a vent. She is otherwise healthy person in her twenties. We are seeing mostly young people coming into the hospital with their lungs destroyed by this virus. The media made it sound like the biggest risk was elderly. Probably true but in Michigan it's hitting young adults hard.
Sequester you and your families away from everyone. Don't leave your house. Don't have any social interactions with anyone.
Keep your parents isolated. Incubation can be up to 14 days. Anyone who has not been isolated for 14 days is a risk to you.
It is estimated that 150 million in us will have it over next 10-14 days. I believe it. Southeast Michigan is festering with it now.
Hopefully this comes across as alarmist. This virus is horrible.
Stay safe. PJW”
FWIW - My fiancé is an ER nurse at a hospital here in Baldwin county (I don’t want to be specific due to fear of word getting out). She also suffers from asthma. Since Tuesday of this past week, they’ve gotten a few patients (young, middle aged, and older) who have come in sick with pneumonia like symptoms. Some with no known underlying conditions. They ran x-rays on each of their lungs, and she told me their lungs were absolutely mauled by infection. Not even close to regular pneumonia on anything else they’ve ever seen. Tylenol wasn’t even reducing their fever. They’ve tested these patients, have yet to get the results back, but both she and staff there feel confident they are going to test positive. Very simply put, my fiancée is extremely scared right now being she has asthma and is on the frontline coming into contact with these patients. To make matters even worse, she’s telling me the hospital has ran out of facemasks and she’s having to reuse hers. Because of how bad she’s telling me it is, I’m also extremely concerned and worried for her.
Also, FWIW - I work for a law firm, also here in Baldwin county. Our head attorney forwarded everyone in our firm this email yesterday:
This is from Patrick Wiater head of ortho/trauma at Beaumont RO, largest hospital in Michigan.
“Hi everyone. Hope all is well.
I implore you to take this covid 19 seriously. It is real. Society is teeming with it. The numbers you see in media are the tip of the iceberg.
The ICU in the hospital is full of young adults on ventilators fighting for their lives. A medical assistant I work with is covid 19 positive on a vent. She is otherwise healthy person in her twenties. We are seeing mostly young people coming into the hospital with their lungs destroyed by this virus. The media made it sound like the biggest risk was elderly. Probably true but in Michigan it's hitting young adults hard.
Sequester you and your families away from everyone. Don't leave your house. Don't have any social interactions with anyone.
Keep your parents isolated. Incubation can be up to 14 days. Anyone who has not been isolated for 14 days is a risk to you.
It is estimated that 150 million in us will have it over next 10-14 days. I believe it. Southeast Michigan is festering with it now.
Hopefully this comes across as alarmist. This virus is horrible.
Stay safe. PJW”
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:36 am to tigerinthawoods
Scary shite.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:38 am to tigerinthawoods
The Fiance story I can believe since it has already shown people with pre-existing conditions like Asthma are at greater risk of infection.
The Lawyer email...good lord. They are making this sound like the walking dead.
The Lawyer email...good lord. They are making this sound like the walking dead.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:41 am to PrinceVegeta
The better part of a million people require hospitalization for flu every year, but a few thousand extra are going to crash our system. What's gonna crash the system is doing retarded things like closing schools down when children have nearly zero chance to get sick, the only effect being that you take out a sizable percentage of your medical staff whoo have small children and now have to stay home, especially nurses
This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 9:44 am
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:42 am to EZE Tiger Fan
I had a fever for two days. Low low fever. Never once topped 100. Wife only slightly worse than I. Don't panic.
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:43 am to PrinceVegeta
Read this on NOLA.com. Terrifying. I wish I could unread it. All the more reason to fast track approvals of all meds and therapies that have promise.
This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 9:45 am
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:48 am to tigerinthawoods
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FWIW - I work for a law firm,
Found the problem. B/T lawyers and government types, don't know which is worse ?
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:49 am to tigerinthawoods
quote:Sounds like bullshite. The hospitals in New Orleans where there are hundreds of cases dont have all ventilators in use yet.
It is estimated that 150 million in us will have it over next 10-14 days. I believe it. Southeast Michigan is festering with it now.
Hopefully this comes across as alarmist
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:51 am to JawjaTigah
quote:No one has to fast track anything. Doctors throughout New Orleans are already using the Chloroquine Azithromycin combo.
All the more reason to fast track approvals of all meds and therapies that have promise
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:52 am to Jake88
Any idea if the meds re helping from what you’ve seen?
Posted on 3/22/20 at 9:55 am to tiger91
I don't work in those facilities treating this. But, peers do and that is what they believe. It still amounts to anecdotal at this point but everything is so until a blinded study is conducted.
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