I can't believe I am still hearing about "trials" on the pre-existing
ebola treatment. Doctors are talking about 2/3's of test patients
recovering after 2-3 days after administration. Seems like that would be
a good enough "trial" to start massively treating patients instead of
20% survival.. What the heck is the real story? I know someone
personally who fought the FDC to get a treatment that extended their
daughters lives for 5 years and it was a nightmare. The conspiracy
part of me wants to scream...
On 4/11/20 12:50 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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.
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From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
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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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