Mixamatosis
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I've just learned today that my brother in law has been diagnosed with Covid 19. He was in hospital having treatment for other issues when he was tested. My sister has been informed that he's getting over it. That's good news. He's 79 years old with lots of health issues. Reply #2261. Apr 08 20, 12:07 PM |
MiraJane
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Daver, that is nonsense. If anything, the deaths from novel coronavirus-19 have been under reported. Why? Medicare and Medicaid didn't have a code to report death from it. Early deaths were attributed to pneumonia or the good old reliable "heart failure" with COVID-19 or "possible COVID-19" listed as a contributing cause on death certificates. Why "possible"? Not all patients in ICUs on ventilators were tested for COVID-19 in the the USA. They still aren't being tested for it. There are not enough tests available to test every paitent in the hospitals. There aren't enough tests available to test suspected cases not in the hospitals. The criteria for testing hospital patients is "test them for novel COVID-19 if a positive result will change their care." You like FoxNews. Even they are reporting this. All of this has been repeated for weeks on the nightly show titled "White House Coronoavirus Daily Update". Reply #2262. Apr 09 20, 6:28 PM |
daver852
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Reply #2263. Apr 10 20, 3:51 PM |
boxjaw
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From the big cheetoh himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezEbDx4B9A Reply #2264. Apr 10 20, 4:33 PM |
boxjaw
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Also from the big cheetoh. 2:46 is interesting. Don't you think dave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o Reply #2265. Apr 10 20, 4:36 PM |
boxjaw
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Hope you try to get those posts removed. Reply #2266. Apr 10 20, 4:37 PM |
boxjaw
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Damn I miss #44. Reply #2267. Apr 10 20, 4:44 PM |
brm50diboll
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Testing people for coronavirus doesn't change their treatment because their *is* no specific treatment for the virus. The treatment is supportive, and identical to the treatment of any other atypical viral respiratory syndrome. Testing does serve an epidemiologic purpose, but for a given person, it does not change how you treat their symptoms. Viruses in the coronavirus family mutate rapidly. Most likely, by the time a vaccine can complete trials and be scaled up for production, the current strain will no longer be recognizable. Herd immunity and mutation will be the end of this outbreak, not the development of specific COVID-19 therapy. Reply #2268. Apr 10 20, 4:45 PM |
brm50diboll
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There is, not their is. I hate typos. Reply #2269. Apr 10 20, 4:46 PM |
boxjaw
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There is more, much more going on in the world today because of Covid-19 than just the infection. Reply #2270. Apr 10 20, 4:52 PM |
boxjaw
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I hate fallsjppds. I mean falsehoods. Reply #2271. Apr 10 20, 4:53 PM |
boxjaw
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Did you watch any of those vids I posted brm50diboll? Reply #2272. Apr 10 20, 4:55 PM |
boxjaw
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Go back to Marlowe and stop embarrassing yourselves. I'm done here. Reply #2273. Apr 10 20, 4:57 PM |
brm50diboll
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The ignorance of the President is irrelevant to what is actually happening scientifically here. He is an observer (not a very good one, but probably better than Biden would be) not a real actor in this. He basically does what Fauci and the others tell him. Reply #2274. Apr 10 20, 5:01 PM |
boxjaw
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Yea. the big cheetoh does what the experts advise. LMAO! Reply #2275. Apr 10 20, 5:13 PM |
brm50diboll
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Well, no one can get him to stop tweeting. Covfefe! But as far as actual policy goes, he does what he's told. Otherwise, he'd still be holding rallies in Wisconsin. Reply #2276. Apr 10 20, 5:44 PM |
boxjaw
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That wouldn't look good right now, holding rallies. Even the orange one would know that. Reply #2277. Apr 10 20, 6:26 PM |
MiraJane
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Brian, I know what the treatments are for people with coronavirus. My county board of health told me when they visited my house. "Hydrate, stay warm when the fever chills hit, get help when you have trouble breathing. Above all else, stay away from everyone and we will check on you tomorrow." What I wrote above about what the criteria is now for testing people is ... What the criteria is now due to the lack of reliable tests. I didn't make that up. Even if the only care given in hospitals is supportive care, supportive care differs depending on what illness a person has. After all, the symptoms for novel coronavirus-19 are the same as symptoms for double lung pneumonia mixed with a nasty sinus infection and a massive infection from a cut. Reply #2278. Apr 10 20, 9:40 PM |
brm50diboll
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My point was that testing serves no therapeutic purpose, only an epidemiologic one. The demand for increased testing will help no patients directly, and your last reply only validates that point further. All this talk about testing is misdirected. Reply #2279. Apr 11 20, 3:43 AM |
Mixamatosis
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Brian, testing is about reducing the spread of the virus, not about treatment. Reply #2280. Apr 11 20, 9:55 AM |
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