Posted on 03/25/2020 6:48:00 PM PDT by BusterDog
"Clinical course is predictable. 2-11 days after exposure (day 5 on average) flu like symptoms start. Common are fever, headache, dry cough, myalgias(back pain), nausea without vomiting, abdominal discomfort with some diarrhea, loss of smell, anorexia, fatigue.
Day 5 of symptoms- increased SOB, and bilateral viral pneumonia from direct viral damage to lung parenchyma.
Day 10- Cytokine storm leading to acute ARDS and multiorgan failure. You can literally watch it happen in a matter of hours.
81% mild symptoms, 14% severe symptoms requiring hospitalization, 5% critical."
Are you a doctor?
kudos to you. dont see that often
I believe so. Check to see what the NIH has to say.
Louisiana is hit harder than most.
It’s had 65 deaths as of now.
Being in ER one sees the worst of the worst.
Yeah, and I'm sixth in line for the British throne! ;^) Check it out, be ready to Google some medical terms, or for people who must, terminology.
The loss of smell is weird.
My sense of smell is poor on a good day.
“I wonder why the cytokine storm ?”
It’s an immune system over-reaction to the strange virus. A massive over-reaction that if it’s in the lung can drown you in antibodies.
The 1918 flu is suspected to have caused cytokine storms in tbe young and healthy. Healthy adults could develop flu symptoms in the morning and be dead by evening. Normal flus kill by secondary pneumonia. Hybrid animal/human flus can provoke cytokine storm.
This Covid-19 virus is largely a bat coronavirus. So I suppose like hybrid flus that makes it something of a zoonotic disease
... I regret their deaths, but tired of the people shouting fire in the movie theatre...there is a reason people are susceptible to disease...
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Did you read the entire post, at the link?
Did you happen to see this....
..One of my colleagues who is a 31 yo old female who graduated residency last may with no health problems and normal BMI is out with the symptoms and an SaO2 of 92%. She will be the first of many...
So sick of these types of posts, regarding this horrid disease. Have you not been paying attention?? Do you not know the average age, of China Virus victims, in NYC??
I pray that your ignorance is not your downfall.
I'm sure that other viruses can and have attacked other organs, just don't ask me to name them (maybe Ebola, for one), but there are plenty other things that do it, sepsis, for one.
Patient presentation is varied. Patients are coming in hypoxic (even 75%) without dyspnea. I have seen Covid patients present with encephalopathy, renal failure from dehydration, DKA. I have seen the bilateral interstitial pneumonia on the xray of the asymptomatic shoulder dislocation or on the CT’s of the (respiratory) asymptomatic polytrauma patient. Essentially if they are in my ER, they have it.
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So everybody who comes into his ER has COVID-19. That’s a bit beyond belief.
Can you say N1H1...>
i only have one patch that developed when I was older...but makes me wonder if there can be a genetic quirk in families as I had a healthy young family member die from a cytokine storm.
this is probably the sepsis
How do you know the kill rate to the flu? The flu is a long standing issue, this covid is new. It appears that lots of folks get covid but don’t go to the doc because symptoms don’t warrant. You’re only doing your math on the worst case scenarios, and when another terminal illness may have been the leading cause of death.
“Are you a doctor?”
no
Thanks for posting, fascinating but scary.
I have a family member who was doing combat psychology across the Fort from them. She never knew what they were doing and it was a completely different area...but she said they were creepy. LOL.
Wait until we see the citizen journalist videos start to pop up. All they have on the networks are the typical TV Docs. As soon as a morgue gets full, all bets are off.
Interestingly, going into this...most morgues were mostly full in Urban hospitals because of the flu. Having a hospital need temp facilities is not a sign that its out of control. Its a sign that a lot of people die at home or hospice...not in the hospital. Our morgues are not that big.
Actually the death rate is 1.39%.....not 14x....it’s lower then the flu....
I have seen 19 patients come in with heart problems like inflamed heart muscle or inflamed heart sac, new onset congestive heart failure and heart rhythm problems. I still order a test to see if the troponin is elevated (if the three heart muscle regulator protein amounts are elevated it will show there is heart damage) but no heart doctor will treat a covid-19 patient no matter how bad the number is. Even the non-covid-19 heart attacks are getting the drug that breaks up clots and getting the recue balloon-catheter-stent at 60 minutes if the clot breaker fails.
Okay...enough said.
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