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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: Drago

Eh. I know. We kind of expect that from them.

Funny. Those days of writing letters to the Editor died years ago for me. I haven’t read a paper as an act of newsgathering or watched a news broadcast in full since the mid-late Nineties.

As a result, I don’t write letters to them anymore, either. I was going through papers, and found a few old letters to the Editor I kept. It was before I realized just how utterly compromised and useless the media was.

I had known for some time they were useless and compromised, but it all came together then and I’d had enough. I saw the full extent of it.

I tried to keep in mind that, they aren’t in the business to convey truthful information, they are in it to make money as Freeper conservatism_is_compassion has eloquently stated over the years, and that is as good as far as it goes. But the REALLY destructive paris is that they are fully engaged in policy advocacy and even as we saw during the Trump and Flynn political persecutions, full blown collaboration with the Left.

So, for me...that largely sets the stage for anything the emanates from them.


81 posted on 09/05/2021 10:09:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: wgmalabama

Statism runs strong in Berlin. For centuries.

Freedom? Not so much.


82 posted on 09/05/2021 10:10:42 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: Ladysforest

How is your husband now?


83 posted on 09/05/2021 10:12:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

84 posted on 09/05/2021 10:13:43 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: Berlin_Freeper; kiryandil

>> You are still obsessed with me.


85 posted on 09/05/2021 10:14:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rlmorel

Sorry, I missed the sarcasm (I guess I’m predisposed toward defensiveness these days).

I’m sick of their lies too.


86 posted on 09/05/2021 10:16:33 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Respiratory therapists are not doctors. They tell you how to breathe how to use inhalers nebulizers cpap machines. They teach exercises. They cannot diagnose. What ever a therapist says is empirical and anecdotal and is only an opinion. If the person were truly a professional they would not take a side on the issue of vaccination based on personal experience.


87 posted on 09/05/2021 10:17:03 PM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: rlmorel

I’ll never know.

;)


88 posted on 09/05/2021 10:19:16 PM PDT by Salamander (We're Pain, We're Steel, A Plot Of Knives....)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I don’t know what the situation is like in Germany, but where we live the propaganda from local newspapers, politicians, and television stations is non-stop. I am afraid that I have reached my saturation point.

The vaccinations do not keep people from getting Covid, they do not prevent people from having serious illness or even dying. Immunity from actually having had it it is many times more effective than the “vaccines” yet in our state this is not taken into consideration when deciding who must get the vaccines. To me this proves that the push to get everyone vaccinated has nothing to do with health considerations.


89 posted on 09/05/2021 10:21:32 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Markos33

And now that they have perfected it, the terrified sheep will cower in their homes and “mail vote” for the *next* “election”, too.

/and every one after that

We should have shut this shit down on day one.

“Two weeks to flatten the curve. Forevermore to flatten the country”


90 posted on 09/05/2021 10:22:46 PM PDT by Salamander (We're Pain, We're Steel, A Plot Of Knives....)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Youre paranoid over people who won’t take your shot.

Pushy like a drug dealer or a used car salesman.


91 posted on 09/05/2021 10:23:54 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The lesson here is that we should not take Covid lightly.


92 posted on 09/05/2021 10:24:12 PM PDT by DennisR (Uh Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
“Especially since all I did was post an article about medical science.“

I think you meant medical propaganda because that is exactly what this is. p

93 posted on 09/05/2021 10:24:45 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Berlin_Freeper
This is from a nurse who works on patients at the hospital
94 posted on 09/05/2021 10:25:54 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

HerrDoktor FauxiMengeleGates /Pharma/NIH/CDC/WHO/DNC/WEF isn’t medical science either.
In case you haven’t noticed they are murderering hundreds of thousands by suppressing known proven life saving drugs.
You Know that is true.
(seems like you’re OK with it)


95 posted on 09/05/2021 10:25:58 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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To: fireman15
The issue is never the issue, the real issue is always the revolution control
96 posted on 09/05/2021 10:26:25 PM PDT by Salamander (We're Pain, We're Steel, A Plot Of Knives....)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
That link was bad, I’ll try again.

This is the link to a nurse who works at the hospital.

97 posted on 09/05/2021 10:31:40 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: AlmaKing
"And I trust no expats."


Hey, I was an ex-pat!
😲

98 posted on 09/05/2021 10:46:23 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Jane Long

My Brother-in-Law and my sister didn’t get the shots, and both got Covid.

My sister was healed in a week. She takes Hydroxychloroquine regularly because of other health problems. Interesting?


99 posted on 09/05/2021 10:50:46 PM PDT by Loud Mime (A living and breathing Constitution empowers evil; living and breathing Commandments do was well. )
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To: kiryandil
Re: Being employed as a scientist.

Are you a government scientist or a privately funded scientist? I ask because government scientists like Mr. Fauxi have taken it upon themselves to take our tax money to fund banned gain-of-function experiments.

Government scientists at the Imperial College of London created a false data model for the spread and death count of COVID-19.

Scientists also lied through their teeth in 'The Lancet', claiming that COVID-19 could not have come from a lab.

Con artists, calling themselves scientists, published a fictitious "global warming" hockey-stick graph for the government to use for laws and public policy.

I also ask because government scientists tell me that women can have penises but anyone, especially nurses, can tell the truth that XY does not equal XX.

100 posted on 09/05/2021 10:53:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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