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On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like
latimes.com ^ | AUG. 26, 2021 | KAREN GALLARDO

Posted on 09/05/2021 8:47:40 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antivaxtrolls; fakenews; fearporn; medicalscience; propaganda; trumpvaccine; vaxxtroll
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To: G Larry

President Trump disagrees with you.


21 posted on 09/05/2021 9:09:15 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

22 posted on 09/05/2021 9:10:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: TTFX
Here's an interesting thought:

The black and brown and yellow people, who can get hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin over the counter and in most instances free, aren't going to bother with the quaxxines.

I'm beginning to wonder what the plan is.

Africans in the Ivermectin belt won't need a quaxx shot.

In India, they're using Ivermectin.

Indonesians [and other ethnic groups in that region] don't like injections, so they're using Ivermectin tablets.

The West is getting quaxxed.

The others aren't. When you hear some talking head quacking about "85% vaccinated", WTF are they talking about, and where is this going?

23 posted on 09/05/2021 9:10:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

‘Medical Science’ from the Leftist LA Times, huh?

You’re an authoritarian by nature. And I trust no expats.


24 posted on 09/05/2021 9:10:48 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Blood of Tyrants
What part of "severe covid" are you not understanding?
On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

25 posted on 09/05/2021 9:11:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: G Larry

I totally agree. They are not vaccines!


26 posted on 09/05/2021 9:11:34 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: G Larry
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Get a load of the Kraut.

He thinks Trump is a doctor...

27 posted on 09/05/2021 9:12:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

LA Slimes

I got to
Get vaccinated..

And lost all respect for her opinion


28 posted on 09/05/2021 9:12:12 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: AlmaKing

I am not an authoritarian by nature and not trusting expats is paranoid.

Especially since all I did was post an article about medical science.


29 posted on 09/05/2021 9:13:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I am not an authoritarian by nature and not trusting expats is paranoid.


You forgot what paranoid means in English.


30 posted on 09/05/2021 9:14:45 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: kiryandil

Jim Robinson recently posted he is vaccinated.

What childish insult do you have for him?


31 posted on 09/05/2021 9:15:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: TTFX

Not trusting expats is paranoid.


32 posted on 09/05/2021 9:16:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I never insult people for being vaccinated, child.

It's their choice, dictated by their personal circumstances and thinking.

33 posted on 09/05/2021 9:16:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Loud Mime

I hope your BIl makes it. I must have an immunity to it as many months ago, 6 of my colleagues whom I work with closely, got it. The studio I worked for “demanded” I take the China virus test, passed it and they made me do it AGAIN, which I passed as usual thinking the test was rigged or defective.


34 posted on 09/05/2021 9:19:08 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; AlmaKing

Respiratory therapy is hardly “medical science”...


35 posted on 09/05/2021 9:19:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

You are the child with the name calling.


36 posted on 09/05/2021 9:21:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: TTFX

“ If it’s posted by Berlin Freeper, that’s likely”

Ah! Thanks for the heads up.


37 posted on 09/05/2021 9:21:35 PM PDT by moehoward (.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

My question is why are we diagnosing people with covid and then sending them home with instructions to hydrate take a couple of Tylenol every 4 hours and come back when your septic so we can intubate you until you die. Treatments exist and don’t give me that old they haven’t been proved to be effective, The only thing that hasn’t been proved to be effective are vaccines. 60% of the people dying in England in July were vaccinated. Nearly everybody dying in Israel right now is vaccinated. Again the real crime here is the insistence that vaccines are the only thing that will get us out of this. They won’t because this has already jumped to other species so there will always be a reservoir out there.

The focus needs to shift to treatment because this thing is going to continue to mutate and evade the vaccines. Israel, a very highly vaccinated country, upwards of 80% of the adult population with two shots has already started handing out boosters and is already talking a fourth shot. You drink enough water and it becomes toxic. How much vaccine can you pump into people before it starts reeking havoc with their immune system? We haven’t got time to test for the answer so lets just experiment with whole populations.


38 posted on 09/05/2021 9:22:41 PM PDT by your other brother
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To: zipper; G Larry
I am sorry-the tone of the post may have misled you without a sarcasm marker. I mean that genuinely-I sometimes think something is self-evident but forget how important tone of voice and facial expression is in this type of communication.

I believe there is a full-court disinformation campaign by the Left on multiple fronts. Check out my earlier post here on another thread: "How DO they find the time..."

39 posted on 09/05/2021 9:24:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: kiryandil

Respiratory therapy, covid treatment, covid progression is medical science.


40 posted on 09/05/2021 9:24:50 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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