“He had a leg amputated and needed a double lung transplant so he had big issues other than Covid.”
Nick Cordero.. and he was put on a ventilator. Doesn’t that make it worse?? And no talk on if they put him on hydroxychloroquine (sp?)
It’s too bad but I wonder if he had something underlying as well.
Petey
Let’s avoid second-guessing when even the best doctors don’t understand why this virus hit some people so hard. Here’s the story:
“The 41-year-old Cordero, who appeared on Broadway in Waitress and Bullets Over Broadway, was admitted to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai medical center in March with a respiratory illness later diagnosed as COVID-19. After being placed in a medically induced coma, Cordero underwent a leg amputation operation and experienced lung damage before waking from the coma on May 12.”
Since then he has been fighting one complication after another “he had a pacemaker put in, had two mini strokes, blood clots which eventually lead to one of his legs having been amputated and is going through dialysis as well as continuing infection in his lungs.”
He would have died sooner without the ventilator but as has been said before, going on a vent is the last resort and lung damage is a frequent side-effect.
HCQ is of no value to critically ill patients like him based on everything I’ve read about it. It changes the permeability of the cell walls that helps prevent the virus from getting in and it moderates the immune system’s reaction - both of which are helpful if the disease is in the early stages, or even as a prophylactic. It is not a miracle cure and it was probably too late for it to do any good by the time he was sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.
It’s natural to think some of his medical issues were pre-existing but they all occurred after he was diagnosed with covid-19. He was evidently in good health until then.