Posted on 03/15/2020 2:31:40 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Mark Frilot took medicines to treat what he thought for several days was a case of the flu, but he just couldnt turn the corner.
His fever was spiking nightly. At one point, his wife, Heaven, found him on the edge of their tub talking to himself, delirious.
When he went to East Jefferson General Hospital on Thursday, the staff diagnosed him with double pneumonia and the new coronavirus. Since then the Kenner lawyer has been sedated and attached to a breathing machine as doctors help him fight the potentially deadly respiratory disease that has caused a worldwide pandemic.
Heaven Frilot she could hardly believe it. Her husband is 45, a construction litigator who is never, ever sick. But now, after seeing images of groups partying in New Orleans on Saturday despite the states request for people to practice social distancing, she is speaking up.
It could happen to anybody, Heaven Frilot said. Thats all Im trying to say.
When the Frilots checked Mark into the ER the next day, they were astounded when staffers informed him a flu test had come back negative. Heaven Frilot said she asked the hospital to get her husbands paperwork faxed over from the urgent care clinic. When the documents arrived, they showed he had been found negative for the flu there as well, despite the treatment plan he was given.
The hospital ran the test and, after several hours, it came back positive.
Heaven Frilot said the days since then have been a blur. Stricken with both COVID-19 and double pneumonia, Mark Frilot is in critical care and isolation. He consented to being given a paralytic drug, sedated and put on a ventilator, she said.
Essentially, the machine is breathing for him so his lungs can rest, Heaven Frilot said Sunday.
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This was done to this patient.
“But it’s just like the flu, why should middle aged people worry?” /s
Are we sure? Where is this anyway? Doesnt say.
“Are we sure? Where is this anyway? Doesnt say.”
New Orleans, as was clear from the article.
It could happen to anybody.......
People have been buying Tylenol around here...its the American name for paracetamol, which is safer than ibuprofen, etc. It doesnt work as fast, unfortunately, IMHO, but it works and does less harm to the body.
Look at Italy.
Stop denying reality. People you know and possibly you will get this at some point.
Denying it is putting others at risk.
The average patient for COVID19 is on e ventilator 18 days.
There are only 100,000 ventilators in all the U. S.
But its just like the flu, why should middle aged people worry? /s
Because they might loose their jobs if people panic?
He tested negative for influenza, but the quacks acted like he just had the flu... Not too smart, especially when the patient is a lawyer.
There are two things to control: the virus and the panic.
But but but but this is Boomer Remover! He's not a boomer!Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old farts life, it's worth it.
I’m not mocking those saying people should take reasonable precautions a bit over and above normal flu precautions - I’m one of them - but I’m mocking the people saying that this is nothing but the flu, nothing to see here, move on, don’t worry about it, only old people will die, etc., etc. Lots of them here on FR.
New Orleans area.
He may have been at Mardi Gras parades. Dont know.
I can tell you from experience that patients that had not visited China, Italy, or other hotspots weee denied testing for several weeks.
We have no idea how many cases are out there.
Four teenagers in Pennsylvania have been diagnosed with it. Not sure of the impact on them.
A cardiologist at Childrens in Philly has died from it.
It could happen to anybody”
What makes people think it couldn’t happen to them?
Sarcasm like this is so helpful during a crisis...Be sure and celebrate each and every infection and death with your awesome sarcasm, it's so helpful. /s
Boris Johnson ordered UK manufacturing to start producing ventilators.
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