Doctor battling coronavirus shares his daily symptoms on social media including ultrasounds of his lungs as he reveals he has suffered diarrhea, cough and strong headaches

DM ^ | 3/12/2020 | BHVISHYA PATEL FOR MAILONLINE

[RummyChick]

A doctor who has been diagnosed with coronavirus has given an insight into the disease's daily symptoms on social media.

Dr. Yale Tung Chen, 35, from Spain, who caught the infection while he was treating patients at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid, has been sharing his experiences battling the illness with the pubic.

The emergency physician has been sharing ultrasound scans of his lungs and listing his daily symptoms in an attempt to give the world a glimpse of how the illness takes over the body.

Taking to Twitter the doctor wrote: 'Day 1 after #COVID diagnosis. Sore throat, headache (strong!), Dry cough but not shortness of breath. No lung US abnormalities. Will keep a #POCUS track of my lungs. #coronavirus ⁦ @TomasVillen @ButterflyNetInc.'

[RummyChick]

Researchers from the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology in Munich found samples taken from the nose and throat of COVID-19 patients showed a very high viral load when the subjects were only showing minor symptoms.

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This is why kids are great super spreaders

they get the virus but dont get the disease...or if they do get the disease it is minor

[allendale]

Any opinion just why the CDC and the WHO studiously avoids listing the race of those infected and the race those who have become seriously ill or have died. Is population genetics now politically incorrect, banned science? Also it seems that subSahara Africa and the Indian subcontinent have been spared thus far. Any thoughts?

[mdmathis6]

So of resolved cases...6.4 percent are fatal. Spanish flu territory!

[cuban leaf]

I got out of the market a while back. I look at this whole thing as a market correction to bring the market and economy back into synch. It’s about time.

[Mom MD]

that’s the problem. It’s not better than nothing. it doesn’t image lungs adequately

[RummyChick]

Yes snowflakes become outraged..

Have seen in on FR if you dare mention race... apparently some races are okay to be indentified but others will send people into a snit

and here comes one:

We still dont know a lot about the African continent. There are cases. When I was looking it was not Africans. So that will be a really interesting thing to look at.

My genetic code problem is thought to have happened because of Malaria. Similar to sickle cell. Iranians also have sickle cell and some combine it with the thalessemia trait

[mikelets456]

Possibly warmer, humid weather? It is know that viruses will drop to the ground in hot, humid climates. That could be a factor.

[RummyChick]

We have to get through this liqidity crunch. It will sort itself out but there will be a world of pain while it does

[Mom MD]

No way to know what his credentials or training are even if he is a dr. What I do know is he doesn’t know much about imaging lungs

[Mom MD]

Your right. Tom Hanks and his wife are asians. 🙄 I have no idea of certain races are more susceptible - that data will shake out eventually. Yes the first cases were mostly asian - the illness started in china for pete’s sake.

[babble-on]

While it started in the working class in China, it seems to be vectoring internationally among the elites. Those are the people who have the most international exposure. Did you go to Milan Fashion Week? Not me, but if you did, you probably brought it back and gave it to your rich friends in Westchester County. Did you kid spend a semester in Spain? Not mine, but those who did are coming back positive. Did you take a long cruise? No, I have a job, but those who did, are sick.

[Blueflag]

Exactly.

And what therapeutics is he taking that might cause or co tribute to the headaches, and what analgesics, etc etc.

Sketchy...

[Blueflag]

Actually preventing additional carriers/vectors from entering the US population will help.

It is smart to halt or reduce the entry of potentially infected persons.

[cuban leaf]

I agree with that.

For all intents and purposes, the world’s economy is going through a Depression era type shrinkage. It doesn’t just gt fixed overnight.

A lot of restaurants in Seattle are closing PERMANENTLY. And many businesses that are operating on a shoestring will see that string snap. I think this will be good for Amazon, though (less personal contact).

[RummyChick]

because there couldln’t possibly any kind of registration of a Doctor in Spain?????

And if you really wanted to know you could make one phone call to the hospital

or maybe dont act so stupid when it comes to ORCID...you have heard of it...right?

[IYAS9YAS]

I think this will be good for Amazon, though (less personal contact).

Until the delivery drivers strike because of hazardous conditions - thinking highway robbery more than anything else, or get sick themselves.

[LilFarmer]

I have seen you say this exact thing on numerous threads, and I have consistently responded with research and links. Many of us have posted images to you.

If you are really a doctor, I would think you would want to know what a potential case looks like on CT scan, especially with a shortage of tests.

Well, here are some more. I have dozens more, all over the world. Are all these doctors stupid?

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“The most consistent radiographic finding was bilateral interstitial/ground glass infiltrates. Aside from that, the other markers (CRP, PCT) were not as consistent.” Martha L. Blum, MD, PhD

“Presence of bilateral ground glass opacity and consolidation on imaging in appropriate clinical background should raise a suspicion about COVID 19” J Assoc Physicians India.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32138488#

“Most patients with COVID-19 pneumonia had typical imaging features, such as ground-glass opacities (GGO) (87 [86.1%]) or mixed GGO and consolidation (65 [64.4%]), vascular enlargement in the lesion (72 [71.3%]), and traction bronchiectasis (53 [52.5%]). Lesions present on CT images were more likely to have a peripheral distribution (88 [87.1%]) and bilateral involvement (83 [82.2%]) and be lower lung predominant (55 [54.5%]) and multifocal (55 [54.5%]).” https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.22976

“Of all included patients, COVID-19 pneumonia presented with ground glass opacities in 65 (72%), consolidation in 12 (13%), crazy paving pattern in 11 (12%), interlobular thickening in 33 (37%), adjacent pleura thickening in 50 (56%), and linear opacities combined in 55 (61%).” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00259-020-04735-9

“The peripheral and posterior lung fields were involved in 78% and 67% of the lesions, respectively. The lesions were typically ill-defined and were composed of mixed ground-glass opacities and consolidation or pure ground-glass opacities.” https://www.kjronline.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3348/kjr.2020.0132

“ The imaging features of COVID-19 pneumonia are highly nonspecific and are more often bilateral with subpleural and peripheral distribution and range from ground-glass opacities in milder forms to consolidations in more severe forms.” https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(20)30150-2/fulltext

[RummyChick]

It is pretty damn easy to trace physicians and their backgrounds if you really want to do it.

If I had the name of MomMD I could tell you alot about her in less than 30 minutes.

You can find plenty of information on the Doctor in this article if anyone cares enough to look.

[RummyChick]

I don’t doubt she is a Dr but apparently she has no idea how to find qualifications and articles written by Drs...like Drs don’t have to be licensed or something

[Stravinsky]

Those are CT scans, not ultrasound like discussed in this particular article and mentioned in her comment. Whatever she has or has not said on other threads, on this one she’s right.