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.
OH CRAP! I resemble that!!!
ok so what is it with diabetes or obesity that makes the virus worse? what factors ? oxygen? blood sugar? insulin?
It’s over folks let’s get back to work
I agree that the large majority of people do not get severely ill. However, those who do get very ill have a high morbidity and mortality.
I would not put much stock in this doctors thesis. As it is very provably False.
Pre-diabetic is a moving target.
My blood sugar is exactly the same as it was 25 years ago.
It does seem that they keep moving the value where they consider you pre-diabetic. I recently pissed off my 36 year old doctor by bringing in a copy of my blood work from 1993 to show her that nothing had changed. I received one of those “if looks could kill” stares from her.
Engedi wrote: “How did you lose weight?”
Weight loss surgery. Gastric sleeve.
Yep, doctors here say the handful ( only 16 in Tulsa )
were mostly obese, elderly, stage 4 cancer. No need to test ~ just mark it, if “suspected “ $$$$$$$$$$$
A town of 400,000 and we’re locked down for weeks for 16 deaths ~ most of whick would have been marked “flu”/ “pneumonia”/ “cancer” any other year
And we’ve had two double-homicides of older folks within a mile of me ~
Well then, you’ve missed all the responses by DannyTN and Hickey Stick McGee
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Where do heavy smokers fit into that ???
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The psycho FearBros are having full out delirium tremens symptoms today. Wouldn’t be surprised at some suicide attempts next week.
Gee, it is almost as if a Chinese bio-weapons lab custom tailored a virus just to go after a nation of fat people like the USA.
Infectious Disease Expert Says His Clinic Has Not Seen ANYONE UNDER 70 Who was not Obese or Pre-Diabetic Get Seriously Ill with COVID-19 (VIDEO)The VA has advised me that there is no such thing a "pre-diabetic," so this must be fake news. </sarcarm>
Could be. They might have been drowned out by unProfessional and Exclamation Point Girl!!! and some of the others.
Some people won’t cross a busy street. Some people check for traffic. Some people *play* in traffic.
Awesome. Great job. I did Keto few years ago and lost 15# but fell off the wagon LOL.
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