Posted on 04/11/2020 9:18:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Stephen Smith shared some very exciting news Wednesday night on The Ingraham Angle.
Dr. Smith has been treating coronavirus patients at the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey.
Dr. Smith revealed that in his treatment of coronavirus patients he has not seen a single patient severely affected under the age of 70 who was not diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese.
Dr. Stephen Smith: The more we see this disease, the more we understand that severe rapid COVID disease especially is in diabetics or prediabetics. We have 19 or 20 patients who are intubated. And 18 of the 20 are diabetic. And two are prediabetic. We don’t have anybody who’s been intubated in our group of over 80 now that was not diabetic or pre-diabetic that was intubated. We’ve seen younger patients with severe disease that have a very high BMI. We have patients that are over 300 pounds. We’ve seen a lot of it. And just now I think the world is catching up to this. A Seattle group published their data in the New England Journal of Medicine saying 58% of their ICU code patients were diabetic and that their average BMI was 33 which is morbidly obese. That fits with our data. What people haven’t focused on yet is that pre-diabetics are also at risk, especially if they have a high BMI. We haven’t had anyone under 70 who didn’t have a high BMI or was pre-diabetic get seriously ill.
Dr. Stephen Smith then later pointed out that not a single coronavirus patient under his care who was on the hydroxychloroquine regimen needed to be intubated.
I swear this virus is as objectionable as one can get! Picking on the fat and already sick!
I have.
That is not the point.
Picking on the fat and already sick! and now the virus is portrayed as being racist picking on black and browns
I had a work colleague for a period of time...may he rest in peace.. who was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He told me the guys who were mean, lean and fit (low BMI) were the first to go and died like flies. No fat reserves to tide them over rough times.
well.. since most Americans are obese.. this doesn’t help :P
But how many people in this country are pre-diabetic?
Aye, there’s the rub!
I have seen several bios of people who have died of this and were said to be marathon runners. I wondered if there was a connection or mere coincidence.
Morbidly obese folks have trouble breathing in the first place. Their fat makes it hard for them to really breathe deeply. They are usually very sedentary in their life style
Tough patients to care for in the hospital
But we have all these Freepers who insist that we are all gonna die.
Oh Lordy. Have you lost your sense of humor??
That virus is sneaky
Because they were not being fed
Don’t kid yourself
Oh if you’re “overweight” ( however that’s defined this year) your doc will tell you you are prediabetic. Not true though it should be determined by a blood sugar test
“But we have all these Freepers who insist that we are all gonna die.”
Haven’t seen a one since December. They both bunkered up and went dark.
Since then all I’ve seen is hysteria about the economy and the election.
Opinions vary so widely about the C-virus. Maybe we could just use the ending sarcasm symbol /s so people don’t have to guess whether something is meant to be sarcastic. Is there a symbol for ending a comment meant to be humorous without sarcasm?
Nice license you have there Doc. It would be a shame if something happened to it...
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