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03-21-2020, 05:24 PM | #8761 |
"You like to drink?"
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03-21-2020, 05:25 PM | #8762 |
Banned
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03-21-2020, 05:25 PM | #8763 |
New and Improved
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03-21-2020, 05:28 PM | #8764 |
Forever Royal
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03-21-2020, 05:28 PM | #8765 | |
**** the Raiders
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03-21-2020, 05:28 PM | #8766 |
I love your mom
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03-21-2020, 05:29 PM | #8767 |
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
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03-21-2020, 05:31 PM | #8768 |
future chiefs fans
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https://www.propublica.org/article/a...young-patients
A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients “It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.” As of Friday, Louisiana was reporting 479 confirmed cases of COVID-19, one of the highest numbers in the country. Ten people had died. The majority of cases are in New Orleans, which now has one confirmed case for every 1,000 residents. New Orleans had held Mardi Gras celebrations just two weeks before its first patient, with more than a million revelers on its streets. I spoke to a respiratory therapist there, whose job is to ensure that patients are breathing well. He works in a medium-sized city hospital’s intensive care unit. (We are withholding his name and employer, as he fears retaliation.) Before the virus came to New Orleans, his days were pretty relaxed, nebulizing patients with asthma, adjusting oxygen tubes that run through the nose or, in the most severe cases, setting up and managing ventilators. His patients were usually older, with chronic health conditions and bad lungs. Since last week, he’s been running ventilators for the sickest COVID-19 patients. Many are relatively young, in their 40s and 50s, and have minimal, if any, preexisting conditions in their charts. He is overwhelmed, stunned by the manifestation of the infection, both its speed and intensity. The ICU where he works has essentially become a coronavirus unit. He estimates that his hospital has admitted dozens of confirmed or presumptive coronavirus patients. About a third have ended up on ventilators. His hospital had not prepared for this volume before the virus first appeared. One physician had tried to raise alarms, asking about negative pressure rooms and ventilators. Most staff concluded that he was overreacting. “They thought the media was overhyping it,” the respiratory therapist told me. “In retrospect, he was right to be concerned.” He spoke to me by phone on Thursday about why, exactly, he has been so alarmed. His account has been condensed and edited for clarity. “Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad, but we deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it’s probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and it’s a lot more frightening.” This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. “I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all.” They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure. |
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The article recently posted that you didn’t read but felt confident in debunking disputes (with data) the idea that we are doing as bad many suggests in dealing with this. |
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03-21-2020, 05:32 PM | #8770 |
future chiefs fans
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03-21-2020, 05:32 PM | #8771 |
Wasted away again...
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03-21-2020, 05:33 PM | #8772 |
The Constitutional Choo choo
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03-21-2020, 05:36 PM | #8773 | |
Like I woke up in Wonderland..
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There is literally a roadmap on how to deal with this, and how not to deal with this, playing out across the world. This isn't a political stand to take, or blindly pound our chests and say "we are just better and that'll get us through" (And btw, USA does have a different healthcare system, and it's also one of the worst among developed countries because it's one of the few based on profit over actual healthcare) |
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03-21-2020, 05:37 PM | #8774 |
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03-21-2020, 05:39 PM | #8775 | |
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