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03-18-2020, 09:17 AM | #6181 |
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Didn't see this mentioned yesterday, but sounds like "Type A" blood is now being called out as a risk factor: https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/people...s-study-finds/
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03-18-2020, 09:18 AM | #6182 |
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03-18-2020, 09:21 AM | #6183 |
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Of course but 90% are non-critical patients.
We need to think out of the box. It's a nation wide crisis. We should just delay non-life threatening surgeries and treatment that take up beds in the hospitals. The civilian hospitals could pledge to help get the vets back on track with their treatments and recovery after the crisis is over. |
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03-18-2020, 09:25 AM | #6184 |
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I remember reading a story about the Seattle nursing care facility that had all the problems early on and they said that they had used CPAP and nebulizers to assist breathing and all it ended up doing was aerosolizing the virus which is why so many got so sick.
Can’t vouch for such a conclusion beyond being what one of the medical people who work their said (the closest I’ve gotten to a CPAP are those William Shatner commercials so I have no clue if such a thing is likely or even possible). |
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03-18-2020, 09:28 AM | #6185 |
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There is a "defense production act" that allows the president to order a factory to build in this case ventilators or increase production. The government could step in right now and increase the production of ventilators in the USA. If only one makes it into a hospital during the crisis, it'd be worth it.
I think most will agree that America should have the capacity to build this life saving machines anyway. This wont be the last time we face a pandemic. |
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03-18-2020, 09:28 AM | #6186 |
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03-18-2020, 09:29 AM | #6187 |
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Minor thought that I don't think has been covered yet.
If they're expecting half or more to get the virus, and most of those will recover. Those people will be immune and not contagious, right? Or am I missing something? If so, it seems like they could get back on track and get the economy moving again. Go on cruises, go on flights, whatever you want, right? But how do you know if someone has recovered? Maybe you could get a government card or something if you've been definitively diagnosed, but if you haven't (and most people haven't), is there any way to retroactively test whether you had it and recovered? |
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03-18-2020, 09:30 AM | #6188 |
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03-18-2020, 09:35 AM | #6189 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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Or other solutions that aren't just handing over money (tax relief, loan relief, etc.). |
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03-18-2020, 09:37 AM | #6190 | |
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03-18-2020, 09:38 AM | #6192 | |
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1. Longer asymptomatic carrier status. 2. Anecdotes of recurrence in the recovered and related 3. No data on whether weathering a bout lends immunity going forward. ALSO, the details are sketchy at this point regarding how climate conditions affect. |
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03-18-2020, 09:38 AM | #6193 | |
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CPAP just blows air into your lungs. Same air that's already in the patients lungs and in the ambient air. Nursing home patient is already inhaling and exhaling that air, no different from us. But, without CPAP, no stage III sleep, a compromised elderly patient in a nursing home could die in days. Now, if you dont clean the CPAP tubing, you can get all kinds of bugs in it that will cause you to get infections. But that true with all the Planeteers on here using CPAP too. If they are confirmed to have the virus, just treat it as an infected area. Nebulizers are used by people with COPD and Asthma to breathe in medicine that has been broken down into a mist that it crosses over into your blood stream faster. The patient gets more relief faster. Again, the patient is exhaling their own air anyway. Last edited by BigRedChief; 03-18-2020 at 09:47 AM.. |
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03-18-2020, 09:39 AM | #6194 |
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If I hear/read 'unprecedented' one more time..
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