I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have now seen several hundred Covid 19 patients and this is what I think I know.

https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3102444?fbclid=IwAR3s13SRnw7YNgtu-7LZyrMUSMIRRWScU67lwbuwZM8fna-6R8k4tqrtO3w ^

[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."

[Tellurian]

re transmissability: I've read a claim that this virus's architecture/chemistry gives it the ability to invade a cell 1000 times more effectively than typical. That implies that most viruses are klutzes when it comes to a successful cell penetration, but this one is a master.

If a typical virus stumbles anywhere beyond the skin barrier - nostrils, mouth, eyes, cuts, etc. - it might infect the cell it lands on. This one will infect it, not might.

If the host immune system is less than optimal, this virus seems to be very quick at overwhelming it's host.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

TY. 👍

[susannah59]

Nurse.

[PA Engineer]

Here you go.

Comparative absorption of zinc picolinate, zinc citrate and zinc gluconate in humans.

As soon as I sent out the message to our medical research team and posted here, it disappeared from Amazon. It may take some searching. Best.

[calenel]

“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.”

We know from the DP that with the entire resources of a whole country with first-world medicine it still killed 12 (10 on the ship, 1 in the US and 1 in Canada) out of 712 confirmed cases. And they tested everybody. That’s 1.7% or 17 times the average “kill rate” of the flu. With over 100 cases still unresolved.

So, yeah, just the flu, bro.

[2111USMC]

Actually, with the exception of no arm coverage, garbage bags don’t seem like a bad idea. They’re waterproof and very cheap. You could wear one to treat a patient and then tear it off and put on a new one to treat the next patient.

[calenel]

Dude, he was reposting from an article, not representing himself as the source. You’re still clueless, aren’t you?

[bella1]

thanks for the chuckle

[aquila48]

Just double click on the word you don’t know and then right click and select “search google”.

[PA Engineer]

Absolutely a bioweapon. Whether is was an accidental or intentional release, we probably will never know. The virus did not come from the fish market, the virus visited the fish market. First known index patients were never there.

[thesearethetimes...]

note.

[Svartalfiar]

Actually the death rate is 1.39%.....not 14x....it’s lower then the flu....

The death rate is likely higher than that, but we'll go with 1.39%. The flu has no set number, but the CDC's inflated flu stats claim a death rate of about 0.1% overall, for all the flus.

.1 x 14 = 1.4

So yes, a death rate of 1.39% is just at 14x deadlier than the CDC's flu numbers.

[GOPmember]

I do.

Ref: this post

So, that makes at least two of us.

[Osage Orange]

Not surprised...

You are a poser....

[PA Engineer]

Just post the grumpy cat “no” meme picture. Not worth explaining.

[FreeReign]

And no one questions whether is just might be BS? If a doctor was really that busy with all of that, they’re going to take the time to write all that info on a blog? A Texas A&M blog for that matter?....come on people...use the brain you’ve been blessed with.

Notice this line from the post.

"Plaquenil which has weak ACE2 blockade doesn't appear to be a savior of any kind in our patient population".

I think it's the intended punchline.

[Svartalfiar]

BS. The actual FACT is that many have had this critter without involving hospitals. If estimates of those people are correct then this thing is 1/10th as deadly as the flu.

And what are these estimates? Where from? The Chinese 86% study apparently revised that number to 35% when China switched from full-deny mode to quarantine cities and incinerate everyone mode. The study on the cruise ship put that number at 18%.

Neither of those numbers put the Wuhan virus anywhere close to the CDC's inflated flu estimates. Much less 1/10th of that.

[calenel]

“What about the untold masses who are symptomless? Which I think is the majority. So then it’s NOT 5%. Lets say they hare missing 80% of the cases (a fair geuss) then they real critical rate is <1%.”

They are not missing 80% of the cases. The 80% are found through contact tracing. They know what the distribution of cases is and there is no hidden herd of asymptomatic cases. That 5% is a real number.

55% asymptomatic, 25% mild, 15% serious, 5% critical.

If all those imaginary friends of yours were real, hotspots would be popping up all over the country instead of in the high density areas, traced back to international carriers.

Or at least that was true until the FluBros screwed us all with their weapons-grade normalcy bias. We can thank their FluBro-in-Chief, de Blasio most of all. Now any containment effort on the entire Eastern Seaboard is wrecked.

[GOPmember]

Well, that link didn’t seem to work as intended. But, as I had noted earlier, I still doubt the legitimacy of the linked post...if nothing else because I know that his claim of discharging so many multilobar pneumonia patients daily is pure B.S.

[cherry]

it must work cuz it was just a question on jeopardy....