I was vaccinated twice, and subsequently suffered two separate bouts of respiratory failure. I was brought to the hospital, where they immediately attempted to intubate me, and put me on a ventilator. Both my daughter and sister are advanced RN’s (APRN) and demanded the hospital cease attempting to intubate me and forced the hospital to place me on non-invasive ventilation, using a bipap machine, and high flow oxygen. It saved my life. The hospital was angling for the automatic $30,000 they get for intubating me. It’s also been determined that many of the fatalities from COVID were as a result of many small blood clots formed from mechanical ventilation. BIPAP is the only way to go, insist on it, for yourself and loved ones who may come down with COVID.
There is no known correlation between COVID blood clots and intubation. The blood clots were identified long ago in patients who had undergone many different treatments. The COVID blood clots (which can appear anywhere in the body but most often the lungs) manifest themselves up to 30 days after infection and are directly tied to the virus not any treatment. Now intubation can cause blood clots but not the same density or severity as those caused by the virus itself.
Early on the government was over counting COVID deaths. We may be undercounting them now since it is unlikely that people who recently recovered from COVID but soon after are dying from clot induced maladies are being considered COVID deaths even though COVID probably caused their blood clots.
Agree that avoiding intubation was a good call though.