COVID Numbers Going Up but Fatalities Going Down

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WHAT DOCTORS HAVE LEARNED ABOUT COVID-19

A professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto sent this clearly worded update to his family:

For this pandemic, there's a greater chance of survival for those getting infected 3 months later like June 2020 than those who got infected 3 months earlier, say February 2020. The reason for this is that Doctors and scientists know more about Covid-19 now than 3 months ago and hence are able to treat patients better.

I will list 5 important things that we know now that we didn't know in February 2020 for your understanding.

1. COVID-19 was initially thought to cause deaths due to pneumonia-a lung infection - and so ventilators were thought to be the best way to treat sick patients who couldn't breathe.

Now we are realizing that the virus causes blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs and other parts of the body and this causes reduced oxygenation.

Now we know that just providing oxygen by ventilators will not help.

We have to prevent and dissolve the micro clots in the lungs.

This is why we are using drugs like Aspirin and Heparin (blood thinners that prevent clotting) as a protocol in treatment regimens in October 2020.

2. Previously patients used to drop dead on the road or even before reaching a hospital due to reduced oxygen in their blood.

This called HAPPY HYPOXIA -- where even though the oxygen saturation was gradually reducing, the COVID-19 patients did not have symptoms until it became critically less, like sometimes even 70%.

Normally we become breathless if oxygen saturation reduces below 90%. This breathlessness is not triggered in COVID patients so we were late in getting sick patients to hospitals in February 2020. Now since knowing about happy hypoxia we are monitoring oxygen saturation of all COVID patients with a simple home use pulse oximeter and getting them to the hospital if their oxygen saturation drops to 93% or less.

This gives doctors time to correct the oxygen deficiency in the blood and there is a better survival chance in October 2020.

3. We did not have drugs to fight the coronavirus in February 2020.

We were only treating the complications caused by it... hypoxia. Hence most patients became severely infected.

Now we have 2 important medicines FAVIPIRAVIR & REMDESIVIR.

These ANTIVIRALS can kill the coronavirus.

By using these two medicines we can prevent patients from becoming severely infected and therefore cure them BEFORE THEY GO TO HYPOXIA.

This is knowledge that is available in October 2020... not in February 2020.

4. Many Covid-19 patients die not just because of the virus but also due to the patient's own immune system responding in an exaggerated manner called CYTOKINE STORM.

This stormy immune response not only kills the virus but also can kill the patients. In February 2020 we didn't know how to prevent it from happening.

Now in October 2020, we know that Steroids, that doctors around the world have been using for almost 80 years, can be used to prevent the cytokine storm in some patients.

5. Now we also know that people with hypoxia become better just by making them lie down on their belly- known as prone position.

Apart from this a few days ago Israeli scientists have discovered that a chemical known as Alpha Defensin produced by the patient's White blood cells can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs and this can be treated with Colchicine which has been used over many decades in the treatment of Gout. So now we know for sure that patients have a better chance at surviving the COVID-19 infection in October 2020 than in February 2020. Going forward there's nothing to panic about Covid-19 if we remember that a person who gets infected now has a better chance at survival than one who got infected early.

Let's continue to follow precautions, wear masks and practice social distancing.

 

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[Rebel - KGC]

GREAT! TX!

 

[smokeythecat]

Nice read. Sounds true! In my late March early April episode my blood ox was 93. I had proactively bought a pulse oximeter. I guess I had it! I take all the precautions I can.

 

[signal_line]

Yeah, the commie media is not talking about this much. The whole virus thing is starting to fade from the news. Around here, the headlines every single day since last Spring has been nothing but the virus and how terrible it is. Haven't kept track of the numbers but a while back it was 1 in 1888 people died and really every one of them had other co-morbidities. People get old, sick and die--that's what they do. Never heard of anyone I know who died from it, not one.

 

[worldtalker]

What goes up must come down.

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Nice read. Sounds true! In my late March early April episode my blood ox was 93. I had proactively bought a pulse oximeter. I guess I had it! I take all the precautions I can.

GREAT! Good luck to ya!

 

[T.C.]

Here's an interesting piece from John Solomon's "Just The News."


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As fears persist of overwhelmed medical systems and at-capacity hospitals nationwide, data indicate that ample hospital space remains available for both COVID-19 patients and other medical needs, with one official at a major hospital network stating that the country is "managing pretty well" the latest surge of COVID-19.

For most of 2020, rising positive test results of COVID-19 have brought with them fears of swamped hospitals, overwhelmed medical systems, emergency patients being turned away, and COVID-19 patients being triaged, suffering and dying in hallways and vestibules.

Much of that fear crystallized in the early stages of the pandemic, when parts of the northern Italian medical system were put under significant strain due to a crush of COVID-19 patients. In response, leaders and medical officials around the world suspended elective surgeries and constructed emergency medical facilities to cope with anticipated waves of COVID-19 patients.


In many cases those facilities were eventually shuttered for lack of patients, even after millions of dollars had been invested in their construction. In Chicago, for instance, the city spent $120,000,000 on four facilities to treat a total of 38 patients.

The latest spike in positive COVID tests has brought renewed fears of hospitals straining under an influx of COVID-19 patients, with some facilities across the country reporting difficulties managing large numbers of patients, either from a dwindling number of scarce beds or not enough medical officials to man them, or both.

Capacity nationwide appears to be far from overwhelmed

Yet federal government data compiled from state-level reports suggests that hospitals nationwide have considerable space left to deal with both routine medical issues and COVID-19 patients.


The Department of Health and Human Services offers on its website estimates of hospitalization rates across the United States. The data, the department says, is "estimated from hospital submissions, either reported through their state or reported through HHS Protect," which the department describes as "a secure data ecosystem ... for sharing, parsing, housing, and accessing COVID-19 data." (HHS did not respond to queries about any limitations or caveats to the data.)

The HHS numbers belie forecasts of impending collapse of the U.S. medical system. As of Saturday, the department estimated that hospitals nationwide were at about 75% capacity. ICU beds were even lower, at 63.5%. Patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 occupied just under 15% of all beds nationwide.

Even in areas that have recently posted huge surges in positive COVID tests, the numbers were largely similar to the national average: In New York, 76% of hospital beds (and 61% of ICU beds) were taken.



In California, where positive test results have skyrocketed, 76% of inpatient beds were likewise filled (though the ICU numbers were notably higher than New York's, at 79%).

Ohio, which has also seen a surge in positive tests over the last few months, has 71% of inpatient beds taken, and 77% of ICU beds.

Those numbers are not far out of line with national average occupancy rates seen in normal times and are, in some cases, lower than what are widely considered optimal rates.

'We are not in crisis care'

Dr. Joanne Roberts, the chief value officer of Providence St. Joseph Health system, told Just the News that "a well-functioning hospital probably runs about 85% capacity on an average day."