Doctor who has lost over 100 patients to covid says some deny virus from their death beds: 'I don't believe you'

@SFGate ^ | 2021-09-24 12:31:32 | Andrea Salcedo

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As a pulmonologist and director of the palliative care unit at a Beaumont Health hospital in southeastern Michigan, Trunsky sees some of the facility's sickest patients and is often the bearer of bad news.

He gets it. No one is prepared to hear their loved one is dying.

But when a well-regarded intensive care unit nurse told him during a recent shift that the wife of an unvaccinated covid patient had berated her when she informed the woman of her husband's deteriorating condition, Trunsky, who has lost more than 100 patients to the coronavirus, reached his breaking point.

Still sporting his black scrubs, he began to vent [on Facebook]. He wrote about a critically ill patient who disputed his covid-19 diagnosis. Another threatened to call his lawyer if he wasn't given ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug that is not approved for treating covid. A third, Trunsky wrote, told the doctor they would rather die than take one of the vaccines.

One demanded a different doctor, "I don't believe you," he told the physician.

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Trunsky's post detailing his interactions with eight covid patients and their relatives highlights the resistance and mistreatment some health care workers across the U.S. face while caring for patients who have put off or declined getting vaccinated. Trunsky estimates that nine out of every 10 covid patients he treats are unvaccinated.

His post - a plea for people to get vaccinated - also reveals the physical and emotional toll the pandemic has had on health care workers, who have been on the front lines for over a year and a half. Roughly 3 out of 10 have considered leaving the profession, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, and about 6 in 10 say stress from the pandemic has harmed their mental health.

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[BushCountry]

“You can insist it all you want but it has little basis in fact. 🤷🏻‍♀️”

Really, several studies have stated that Monoclonal antibody treatment reduces hospital stays by 80%. Like antibody treatments, antiviral drugs can reduce viral loads, lessen the severity of Covid-19, and reduce hospitalizations and deaths. There are dozens of other things that are promising.

Early adoption of treatments could have kept 90% of the patients out of the hospital, so you’re telling this would not have save lives? The only reason the government did not also focus on therapeutics is because they were afraid of mixed messaging on the vaccine. With their partners in the Media they downplayed the promising treatments.

Every doctor and hospital that sent patients home without treatment (they did this by the tens of thousands) and the patient died waiting to waiting until it was too late. They are responsible. The media and government (national and states) is responsible for not promoting therapeutics.