new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, March 23, 2020 3:34 AM

Whatever.

SIGNYM

Monday, March 23, 2020 6:40 PM

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Medical Worker on Covid-19: Struck me How Different it is [FROM THE FLU] when I saw Young Guy gasping out Pink Froth

https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/medical-different-gasping.html

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 23, 2020 7:55 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Medical Worker on Covid-19: Struck me How Different it is [FROM THE FLU] when I saw Young Guy gasping out Pink Froth

https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/medical-different-gasping.html

15,000+ deaths and that's the first time I heard they're frothing up what chicken mcnuggets look like before they're cooked.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

1KIKI

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:52 AM

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15,000+ deaths and that's the first time I heard they're frothing up what chicken mcnuggets look like before they're cooked.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Pink froth is from pulmonary edema. Not that you'd know with all your 'expertise'.

Here's some more from the article:

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We have an observation unit in the hospital, and we have been admitting patients that had tested positive or are presumptive positive — these are patients that had been in contact with people who were positive. We go and check vitals on patients every four hours, and some are on a continuous cardiac monitor, so we see that their heart rate has a sudden increase or decrease, or someone goes in and sees that the patient is struggling to breathe or is unresponsive. That seems to be what happens to a lot of these patients: They suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure.”

“It’s called acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS. That means the lungs are filled with fluid. And it’s notable for the way the X-ray looks: The entire lung is basically whited out from fluid. Patients with ARDS are extremely difficult to oxygenate. It has a really high mortality rate, about 40%. The way to manage it is to put a patient on a ventilator. The additional pressure helps the oxygen go into the bloodstream.

“Normally, ARDS is something that happens over time as the lungs get more and more inflamed. But with this virus, it seems like it happens overnight.

1KIKI

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:05 AM