[amorphous]

“With our coronavirus patients, once they’re on ventilators, most need about the highest settings that we can do. About 90% oxygen, and 16 of PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure, which keeps the lung inflated. This is nearly as high as I’ve ever seen. The level we’re at means we are running out of options.

“In my experience, this severity of ARDS is usually more typical of someone who has a near drowning experience — they have a bunch of dirty water in their lungs — or people who inhale caustic gas. Especially for it to have such an acute onset like that. I’ve never seen a microorganism or an infectious process cause such acute damage to the lungs so rapidly. That was what really shocked me.”

Editor's Note

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

[moovova]

Not good.

[Gay State Conservative]

I want facts...statistics. Particularly age at death and medical history (meaning pre-existing conditions) of those who die as well as place of death.

So if an 80 year old Italian with a history of COPD or a weakened immune system wouldn't be surprising.Old person,weakened lungs or immune system treated in the worst health care system in the industrialized world.

[dfwgator]

New Orleans had held Mardi Gras celebrations just two weeks before its first patient, with more than a million revelers on its streets.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Zhang Fei]

[ProPublica]

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Soros front organization.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Respiratory therapist? That’s not an MD nor an RN nor an LPN. It is a person with minimal training in how to administer respiratory treatments. I would not place too much credence in his/her “observations”.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Doesn’t everyone know it’s bad?

[jetson]

IF you catch it.

[Vision]

Yet another article with anecdotal, flamboyant rhetoric and no data. Here’s data. Germany 22k cases, 84 deaths.

[devane617]

I’ve said it before, I believe it is much worse than we have been told.

[david1292]

And what’s the percentage of people that are infected have to be put on a ventilator?

If everyone who catches the virus is this bad, the death toll would be MUCH higher.

[LeonardFMason]

ProPuica BLOWS! A further LEFT site can hardly be found.

[entropy12]

From everything I have seen, covid-19 is mainly life threatening for those who have bad lungs, are very old and in bad shape, or have advanced diabetes/heart disease/kidney disease/cancer with chemotherapy.

Above category of people are perhaps 20% of Americans, I am guessing. Covid-19 is very risky for them. People in good health and under Medicare age will win over the cobid-19 similar to coming down with influenza and recovering.

Therefore the most effective method of fighting the new virus at this stage is prevent the risky group from being exposed to any others. That is difficult when a family has old and young people who are not staying home.

[chiller]

NOLA humidity makes it hard to breath , period. Worse in summer. There is no thicker air anywhere, imho.

[Skywise]

Nothing really new here - the lung damage this virus can cause is WHY we’re shutting down the world.

The infuriating part is that the majority of the people that get it never progress to lung damage - only that once it’s in the lungs all bets are off and the damage is the same young or old, healthy or not.

[Gay State Conservative]

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

...and is known to routinely put out the most disgusting Maoist cr@p.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Antidotal stories of severity are even less reliable than antidotal evidence of treatments.

[Kirkwood]

Majority of the NOLA dead came from one nursing home, much like in Seattle. It really skews the results.

[Raycpa]

How do we know that those who recover quickly do not have lasting lung damage?

[Chode]

monday will be the day the earth stood still...

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I’ve never seen a microorganism or an infectious process cause such acute damage to the lungs so rapidly

That's because it's a bioweapon.