My son said they are using the malaria drug in the UK to great success.
Over 50% of the physicians there are on it as a prophylactic.
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From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 1:50 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
Yeah, I am starting to get annoyed at the obsession with having enough
ventilators, describing them as "life saving equipment", leaving the
impression that most can be saved if you can just put them on a ventilator.
Yet stats out of NYC are 80% don't survive to come off the ventilator. And
you have to wonder if the 20% who do, did the vent actually save them, or
they would have survived even with less aggressive treatment.
The news coverage leaves you thinking most of the ICU patients will be saved
if there's enough ventilators. When in reality doctors and nurses are
risking their own lives to treat ICU wards full of intubated, sedated
patients most of whom will die because they don't have an effective
treatment. Not a pretty story, probably why nobody wants to talk about it.
There are trials of various treatments going on, it would be great if some
of them turned out to work. Not necessarily a cure or a vaccine, but a
therapy so less people die.
-----Original Message-----
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 1:57 PM
To: AFMUG <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
Saw this in our local paper this morning. It's interesting to me because
it's bringing to light the fact that COVID-19 is apparently not what people
are dying from, it's the secondary ARDS-like (Accute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome) condition. There is also some debate within the medical community
whether ventilators are helping or hurting. Maybe what they need to do is
just supply oxygen.
If this link doesn't work for you, I can email the article.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/11/when-coronavirus-kills-its-like-death-by-drowning-and-doctors-disagree-on-best-treatment/
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