On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

latimes.com ^ | AUG. 26, 2021 | KAREN GALLARDO

[Berlin_Freeper]

I’m a respiratory therapist. With the fourth wave of the pandemic in full swing, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, the trajectory of the patients I see, from admission to critical care, is all too familiar. When they’re vaccinated, their COVID-19 infections most likely end after Stage 1. If only that were the case for everyone.

Get vaccinated. If you choose not to, here’s what to expect if you are hospitalized for a serious case of COVID-19.

Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies. You’ll spend several days in the hospital feeling run-down, but if we can wean you off the oxygen, you’ll get discharged. You survive.

[McGruff]

We’re all gonna die!

[Lean-Right]

“unvaccinated rube”

Better practice up on your spanish.
Over a million rubes have jumped
our southern border. Not to mention
the rubes that have been flown over
here from Afghanistan. (who, by the
way, are being offered ivermectin).
I’m very suspicious of those who are
highly hypocritical.

[Cobra64]

If I were in his condition, I would demand Ivermectin.

[sockmonkey]

*** President Trump disagrees with you. ***

I disagree w/ Trump on Assange, Syria, and his suggestions on what is best for me re: Covid.

If Trump wants some advice from me, it would be go on a diet, and get some exercise to reduce his rotund belly.

[MarMema]

And Trump. And every governor.

But we are leftists. Ain’t this a grand place? 😂😂😂

[ransomnote]

FAKE NEWS

[MarMema]

There are six clinical trials here with ivermectin.
There will be data, hopefully soon.

[mewzilla]

Medical science is not bombs.

CoupFlu has nothing to do with medical science.

Or public health.

[nutmeg]

Wow, prayers up for your brother-in-law...

[MarMema]

Actually they draw ABGs, run them, dx them for a myriad of acidosis/alkalosis results and help troubleshoot vents.

They know Henderson hasselbach which has always been a rough one for me.

RTs are super sharp peeps.

[Stentor]

HAHAHA.

[Stentor]

I love most of Haydn.

[Stentor]

Do the 13,000-plus who died from the “vaccine” count as “rubes”?

Over 18 they count as dumbasses. Since brains don't fully form until 25, I'll slide it up.

[rdcbn1]

Have already had and recovered from a very bad case covid before vax was an option.

Looked at vaccinations and considered myself a bad risk for adverse or allergic reactions based on past history. Also, considered that I had robust immunity from previous infection which could be degraded by vaccine.

Then came highly infections Delta variant - which the vaccines did not give good protection. With Ro of 9+ it was 100% certain I would get it regardless of vaccination status.

Went on Ivermection + Quericine + Zinc+ Vitamin C + Vitamin D + anti inflammatory prevention regime in late July.

We got hit by Delta variant at work. I was the oldest, highest risk and the only unvaxed. I was also one of the several who already had and recovered from covid .

Everyone else, all vaxed, became seriously ill with covid and are just now beginning to recover after 10 days. None went on the ivermectin protocol

I went on ivermectin at 0.4mg/kg split twice a day instead of twice a week for active case therapy while keeping the rest of the prevention regime the same after testing positive and had only very minor symptoms- an initial runny nose and a minor fever, followed by an intermittent bad cough. Checked my 02 Sats on regular basis and they never went below 92% and are holding steady in the 95% range on hourly monitoring . Am pretty much 100% recovered after 10 days and just tested negative for virus via saliva test.

Not downing the vaccines but feel I made the right risk assessment by declining the vax due to being a bad risk for serious bad reaction and concerns that the vax was only partially effective against the Delta variant. I also am happy with effectiveness using the Ivermection cocktail prevention protocol and my outcome was far superior to my vaxxed colleagues, several of whom also have already had and recovered from covid.

[21twelve]

I see that amazon has 12% and 3% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide. Do you mean the 12%?

[maddog55]

Covid fear porn for the sheeple.

[TheRake]

‘Medical Science’ from the Leftist LA Times, huh?
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Who owns the LA Times? Me thinks “it’s an ancient Chinese secret “.

[NonValueAdded]

I sometimes think something is self-evident but forget how important tone of voice and facial expression is in this type of communication.

Just a random thought - think about the masked classroom.

[rlmorel]

Oh, I have indeed thought about that. A lot. I wrote this in a post about a week ago:

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I swear. It is the fear I see in people that really bothers me. The sheep-like fear. It is controlling the lives of people.

I rebel against that. It isn’t that I minimize the danger. There is a saying I love, and it is relevant here:

“A ship in a harbor is a safe ship. But that isn’t what ships are made for.”

I feel like I want to say to people: “You may think a human with a mask avoiding others is a safe human, but that is not what humans are made for.”

We are made to interact with each other, to see each other’s faces, to shake each other’s hands, to hug each other. There is something obscene to me about covering one of the most beautiful things in the world with a mask...a genuine and warm human smile. We are MADE to see that. It isn’t insignificant. It means something special. So we should do and see these things.

Not to cower in fear.

If I get the virus, I get the virus.

If it kills me, it kills me.

I have had a wonderful life on this earth, but I’ll be damned if I live my remaining days acting like a scared sheep cowering in a dark place. I feel in my heart that there are indeed things worse than death, and squandering this beautiful life that God has given me by quaking in fear in a dark, lonely house, well...that isn’t the way I want to go out.

It isn't just the communication aspect, it is so much more than that, it is who we are. I think the damage done to young children from this BS is going to deep and far reaching.

If we had to do this because our survival was at stake due to a high mortality rate of 30-50%, then we would do what we had to do to survive, and that would be that.

But this virus does not justify all of this. Yes it exists, yes, it kills people. But its relatively low mortality rate does not justify our cultural and national suicide. What we have done in response to it is childish, emotionally driven, and wrong.

[sheana]

That’s my problem with this whole thing. If you go to the doc with Covid and are not real sick what do they do? Tell you to go home and take Tylenol and if you get really sick go to the ER? Why not treat it before it gets bad?!?!