Posted on 03/19/2020 10:44:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
It is really heart wrenching to see the actual inside of a hospital full of COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe.
That hospital is being over run by two patients an hour. How many patients an hour can your local hospital manage?
About 8.3% of Italians who were infected have died, twice the percentage of China. But yes, we were suspicious of numbers being publicized by the Chinese government.
I ought to have found out by now.
Haven’t seen anything posted (unless I missed) about these corona patients dying of secondary cause like sepsis, which from what I’ve read..is really common in a virus like this.
If it’s a 300 bed or less it can’t handle one an hour. 1,000 bed hospitals will fail below ten an hour.
Are you suspicious of South Korea’s numbers which was more like 0.5%
From what I’ve seen it not only produces the lower airway edema that suffocates you but also interferes with Hemoglobin. So it suffocates you and poisons you like cyanide at the same time. On the trauma teams they used to say it’s the second car that hits you that really kills you.
Toss in the fact that the nursing staff numbers are probably at marginal levels and you might go an entire 8-hour shift and only see one of your three hallway nurses for a total of 10 minutes.
I’m not. Those people wear masks everywhere and have been for years. I suspect they live like we are now all the time.
Just pray for people who work in hospitals intensely for a couple weeks.
Coronavirus: Thirteen medics have died in Italy, over 2600 health workers infected
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12318564
People wearing masks amuse me, frankly. This virus is Respiratory Droplet transmission. Unless you are inches away when they cough you won’t inhale it. You contaminate your hand and then pick your nose. Gloves make more sense to me than a mask.
In the hospital one does procedures, intubation, suctioning, etc. that produce aerosols. So when doctors and nurses get it they say it is more severe and more communicable. Plus if you watch the movie, even the doctor standing there surrounded by patients is touching his damn glasses with his glove. That’s how hard it is to maintain sterile technique if you aren’t used to it.
Amen
I don’t know what that percentage represents. Did it come from that worldometer site? I doubt that site more than anything else. South Korea tested more than 290,000 people and did testing very early. Restrictions were also swift and strict. That’s all that I know about South Korea, except that it dealt with the disease very well and has set some standards.
Horrible..
Totally different but my mother n law had a brain aneurysm last year..she barely survived & I remember the doctors being more concerned about vasospasm, blood clots, pulmonary edema. digestive infections etc..
She did have several complications after the surgery & the hours after surgery were touch & go. The surgery was a success, but her system starting shutting down from all the trauma. God bless those doctors, CCU nursing staff.
So your comment makes complete sense, it’s like the domino effect that can turn a mild case into a grave situation.
That “second car” is a mf’er.
pity they might not even be covid-19 deaths:
18 Mar: Bloomberg: 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
By Tommaso Ebhardt, Chiara Remondini, and Marco Bertacche; With assistance by Karl Maier, and Alessandro Speciale
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says
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