https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-nyc-news-updates-new-york/6069778/
New York to EMS: “Don’t bring in heart attack victims, don’t apply CPR”
Wow!
Be afraid
Good, gosh....
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(NYC) City officials have released stark new guidance to equally overworked ambulance crews, effective immediately, if they can’t resuscitate a patient in the field, they must withhold CPR and declare the person dead.
They can no longer continue to the hospital.
“These orders are binding and the FDNY will devise a plan for implementation,” said Deputy Fire Commissioner Frank Dwyer.
The new approach shows how stretched thin EMS and hospitals are.
“When you’re doing the CPR, you’re pushing really hard on the patient’s chest and they’re expelling some air in the process as well, so if they are COVID patients, they’ll be spreading it all around,” said Dr. Vinayak Kumar with the Mayo Clinic. “This is the risk-benefit math you have to take into account.”
The orders to stop CPR in the field is shocking to veteran doctors who are used to doing whatever it takes to save a life.
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Following THAT shocking story, was a report about a teacher, in Yonkers, who tested positive. She self isolated, at home, for THREE times the recommended time....she isolated for 21 days.
Her first trip outside of her house, was to donate plasma, for testing. They re-tested her, for COVID...and, she tested POSITIVE, again.
She said that it’s been like living a science fiction movie. She asked why...how could she STILL be positive...and, they told her, We don’t know. We’re still learning about this disease.
https://twitter.com/menracar/status/1245207931307597825
“11 years ago during the H1N1 influenza epidemic, for the same reasons as today, in Costa Rica all community-acquired gastrointestinal, and respiratory illnesses and all health-care associated infections (including C-diff) drop...they remained low for about 2 years.”
Because… Hand washing!