Remdesivir? -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 3:26 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
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. > > > -----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/ > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
