Liu Zhiming, hospital director in Wuhan, confirmed dead from coronavirus

New York Post ^ | February 18, 2020 | Lee Brown

[PJ-Comix]

The head of the Chinese hospital at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak has become one of the latest victims — dying Tuesday despite “all-out” attempts to save him, officials confirmed.

As director of Wuchang Hospital, Dr. Liu Zhiming led the fight to try to contain COVID-19, dedicating the hospital to treating the thousands of patients arriving every day.

It ultimately cost him his life, with Wuhan’s health bureau confirming that he died at 10:54 a.m. Tuesday. He was 51.

[PJ-Comix]

This report comes on the heels of another report yesterday about a Chinese film director and his ENTIRE family in Wuhan dying from the coronavirus. So I'm absolutely NOT buying the official stats including the official fatality rate of only 2-3%. No way so many prominent people (such as the doctor who originally reported the virus) would not only catch coronavirus but die of it as well.

[sauropod]

Rip.

This is bad.

[PJ-Comix]

How do they claim a 2-3% fatality rate when the ENTIRE family of a Chinese film director died from it. NOT a statistical reality according to the official rate. I think the fatality rate is above 50%.

[knarf]

What actually kills?

Heart attack?

Kidney failure ?

what ?

[PJ-Comix]

From what I understand it is pneumonia. Lungs fill with water. I almost died from it at 17. It was a close call. I caught a flu which brought on the pneumonia.

[null and void]

Poor people...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Red Badger]

Fluid in the lungs...............like pneumonia..............

[Zhang Fei]

A hospital director is presumably gonna get the best of care. If they couldn’t save him, you gotta wonder what the odds are for the shut-ins who have been forcibly quarantined by nailing their doors and windows shut.

[lp boonie]

Yep. This stuff is deadly, at least with certain populations. But with two high level health care workers dying, who you can assume took lots of precautions and got the best available treatment, you have to figure the death rate is way higher than 2% for the average “citizen”.

[PJ-Comix]

Plus the Chinese film director whose ENTIRE family (including him) died from the coronavirus.

[Grampa Dave]

“A hospital director is presumably gonna get the best of care. If they couldn’t save him, you gotta wonder what the odds are for the shut-ins who have been forcibly quarantined by nailing their doors and windows shut.”

The nailed in ones might be safer. Less vectors bringing newer and maybe deadlier bugs and viruses.

If they don’t starve to death for lack of food/nurishment and water.

[BigEdLB]

Karma is a ... but this is omnous

[knarf]

OK ... thanks .... I can relate to that

[BipolarBob]

Lungs fill with water.

I thought this (Coronavirus) was the one where x-rays showed it was like shredded glass in the lungs. Am I wrong?

[PJ-Comix]

A big reason for the spread of coronavirus was suppression of information about it at the start by the Chicoms and now they are basically suppressing the grim statistics.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I don’t believe they necessarily died from the virus...

[xp38]

The emperor does not tolerate failure.

[Uncle Sham]

"If they don’t starve to death for lack of food/nourishment and water."

I think that soon, this will become the bigger story. It will kill many more than the virus could have.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve been getting the annual flu shot and I got the pneumonia vaccine about 7 or 8 years ago. Last winter I got a cold, then bronchitis. I had two rounds of different antibiotics and steroids. At about the 11th week of the bronchitis, it seemed to turn to quickly turn to pneumonia and got me really scared. Breathing became real hard, gurgling on inhale and exhale, and my blood O2 was not great, but still around 90. I actually began to think “this is how it ends.”

Another round of a different antibiotic and steroids. Finally it quit around week 12. They didn’t run any tests to see if it was pneumonia, but that was a scary incident.

Incidentally, at the beginning, the doctor said the AVERAGE time to get over the bronchitis was 12 weeks. My whole episode lasted exactly 12 weeks.

It gave me a whole new appreciation for what pneumonia (or pneumonia-like) diseases can do to your lungs.

[21twelve]

In some of the early videos it showed people collapsing, and then blood on the ground near their heads. Might have been fake videos, but in some/many cases, the final event is coughing up a lot of blood from the destroyed lung tissue.