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Uber Driver Who Stopped Working to Avoid Coronavirus Dies from Disease
New York Post ^ | March 25, 2020 | David Meyer

Posted on 03/25/2020 6:06:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

RIP.


21 posted on 03/25/2020 6:27:52 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: nickcarraway

LOL...it’s been the news headliners, for weeks.

He suffered underlying conditions.

Due to co-morbitities.

Yada, yada.

Look back over the news reports of China Flu deaths, over the past weeks, and there you will have it.

NY cases are (possibly) proving different. Much younger victims/patient groups, than previously seen.


22 posted on 03/25/2020 6:28:29 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: freeandfreezing

Possibly.

Poor guy could’ve caught it, even before he knew/stopped driving.


23 posted on 03/25/2020 6:29:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: freeandfreezing
And probably carrying somebody who just flew home from somewhere and was on the way to their mansion in Westchester County.

"Nembang, an Uber driver as well, told The Post his cousin stopped driving for-hire during the first week of March — after transporting a sick passenger from JFK Airport to Westchester County."

24 posted on 03/25/2020 6:29:30 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: montag813

“just as the Vietnamese seem to have a genetic resistance to it”

Must be generations of breathing all that Agent Orange.


25 posted on 03/25/2020 6:29:49 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Jane Long

A lot of people are jumping to a lot of conclusions, without enough facts.


26 posted on 03/25/2020 6:30:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

[It says he came from Nepal.]


The Gurkhas, who have Asiatic/Oriental looks, are the traditional rulers of Nepal. IIRC, most of Nepal’s population looks South Asian (i.e. like Indians/Pakistanis).


27 posted on 03/25/2020 6:32:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Macoozie

....or having a strong genetic resistance to malaria-like illnesses due to where they have lived for 100s of years.


28 posted on 03/25/2020 6:38:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting that the ventilator didn’t keep him breathing.


29 posted on 03/25/2020 6:38:51 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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A lot of people are jumping to a lot of conclusions, without enough facts.

Uh, welcome to FR? LOL....

30 posted on 03/25/2020 6:41:01 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Well, not just here.


31 posted on 03/25/2020 6:42:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: NRx

WAS HE TREATED WITH HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE?


32 posted on 03/25/2020 6:43:24 PM PDT by chopperk
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If he wasn’t treated with hydroxychloroquine before death, lawsuit city.


33 posted on 03/25/2020 6:44:52 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: chopperk

I have no idea. I’m not sure what that has to do with his death being very sad.


34 posted on 03/25/2020 6:44:59 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: montag813

In NY the cabbies a lot of the time are foreigners. I don’t know how long that guy was in the country but those communities often have people new in the country or going in and out of.

I would not take a cab in NY right now.


35 posted on 03/25/2020 7:21:17 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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If he wasn’t treated with hydroxychloroquine before death, lawsuit city.

They would have zero chance of winning.

Although a doctor can prescribe a drug off label, he could not be held responsible for a bad outcome due to not using a drug off label.

If a drug is not approved for use against a given pathogen a doctor is not under any requirement to consider its use in a case where that pathogen is present. Most doctors will not prescribe a drug off label (other than anti-biotics which far to many do).

36 posted on 03/25/2020 8:30:22 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t understand why this malaria drug wasn’t started right away on the worst cases. I heard about it a week ago on Laura Ingraham.....I’m willing to bet if those were relatives of politicians in hospital, that drug would have been fed into them so fast it would make your head spin.

And now some vile dems are downplaying this drug because the president has some hope in it. Absolutely disgusting. Beyond disgusting. I thought I read that the governor of Nevada has outright banned it’s use for CV19. It would be wrong of me to hope he gets it, so I won’t.


37 posted on 03/25/2020 8:31:17 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder if he received the highly promising 6-day course of the hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin drug regimen as treatment for Covid-19 before he declined to the point he was placed on a ventilator. Almost certainly not. Hell it may well have prevented him from going on the ventilator. That would not have fit with Governor Cuomo’s agenda.

Now, with Cuomo DECREEING no more of that treatment unless the patient is in an approved clinical trial, things will go more Cuomo’s way.


38 posted on 03/25/2020 9:15:23 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS A PRETEXT!)
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