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On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like
latimes.com ^ | AUG. 26, 2021 | KAREN GALLARDO

Posted on 09/05/2021 8:47:40 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

I’m a respiratory therapist. With the fourth wave of the pandemic in full swing, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, the trajectory of the patients I see, from admission to critical care, is all too familiar. When they’re vaccinated, their COVID-19 infections most likely end after Stage 1. If only that were the case for everyone.

Get vaccinated. If you choose not to, here’s what to expect if you are hospitalized for a serious case of COVID-19.

Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies. You’ll spend several days in the hospital feeling run-down, but if we can wean you off the oxygen, you’ll get discharged. You survive.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antivaxtrolls; fakenews; fearporn; medicalscience; propaganda; trumpvaccine; vaxxtroll
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m not the one using others as sock-puppets to press my point of view.


41 posted on 09/05/2021 9:25:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: TTFX

I think some may have misunderstood my post, and the fault is mine.


42 posted on 09/05/2021 9:25:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The part that attempts to scare people into getting the experimental vaccine or dying.


43 posted on 09/05/2021 9:28:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Jamestown1630, Berlin_Freeper is likley referencing my post at #2. I used the term “unvaccinated rubes” as a rhetorical tool, and he found it useful.


44 posted on 09/05/2021 9:28:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I'm an actual scientist.

My university has a very good nursing program. Nurses aren't scientists.

Respiratory therapists are on the next rung or two down from LPNs, who are down the ladder from RNs.

I know quite a few respiratory therapists.

Nice people, and good at what they do. But NOT scientists by any stretch of the imagination.

45 posted on 09/05/2021 9:28:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Respiratory therapy, covid treatment, covid progression is medical science.


Is all you post poorly thought short sentences? Have you ever tried making an argument?


46 posted on 09/05/2021 9:28:23 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: your other brother

There is no data on treatments for covid because the gov’t doesn’t want any other treatment. I keep hearing, “there is no data” on Ivermectin or the mono or hydro meds because they REFUSE to do studies on it so there is NO data to study.


47 posted on 09/05/2021 9:28:46 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: kiryandil

I don’t agree with you That President Trump and Jim Robinson are sock puppets. I only mentioned them because of personal attacks as if I am important. Don’t care if a childish name caller gets vaccinated or not.


48 posted on 09/05/2021 9:29:55 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: rlmorel

Try using the /sarc tag.


49 posted on 09/05/2021 9:30:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I should have.


50 posted on 09/05/2021 9:31:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I don’t agree with you That President Trump and Jim Robinson are sock puppets.

I said "others".

I didn't mention anyone by name.

There you go again, dragging others into the discussion without pinging them [at least one of them]...

51 posted on 09/05/2021 9:31:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: TTFX

Funny considering the post I responded to was short and trailed off like this...

LoL!

What argument do you need?
Don’t get vaccinated for all I care.


52 posted on 09/05/2021 9:32:26 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: rlmorel

No patient regret stories...just the 7 stages before COVID death as interpreted by a hospital respiratory therapist in Ventura, CA.


53 posted on 09/05/2021 9:33:36 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Berlin_Freeper
OK.

I think we've established that you're a troll who is not very serious.

Please don't post to me any more, and I shan't post to you again, nor trouble your vaxx trolling threads.

54 posted on 09/05/2021 9:34:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Loud Mime

I met a guy yesterday who lost a friend to COVID yesterday morning. His friend was fully vaccinated and spent a month in the hospital. The course of his disease probably went like this nurse tells it.


55 posted on 09/05/2021 9:34:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: kiryandil

There I go again?

Jim Robinson instructed me not to ping him to arguments and I respect that.


56 posted on 09/05/2021 9:35:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

>> President Trump disagrees with you.

Trump also promoted Milley


57 posted on 09/05/2021 9:35:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Don’t get vaccinated for all I care.


Isn’t that off topic? You don’t know the topic of your own thread, the one you posted.


58 posted on 09/05/2021 9:36:25 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: kiryandil
rare-german
59 posted on 09/05/2021 9:37:46 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: kiryandil

You think wrong as I am not a troll.

I posted an item about covid and for some crazy reason had to defend myself from childish personal attacks.


60 posted on 09/05/2021 9:37:49 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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