Originally Posted by
ramairthree
Data points like these continue to match up with what I previously posted.
We have to take this hit.
It is not going away.
There is plenty of ICU and vent capacity for otherwise healthy, relatively young outliers,
if we stop putting 70 year old DNR/hospice end stage ALS patients whose family decides they want everything done, 88 year old found down needing dialysis new renal failure patients with COPD, AFIB, sepsis, pneumonia, UTI, hip fracture, rhabdomyolysis, with dementia, and bed ridden 60 year old 340 pound, hemiplegic from a stroke, COPD, pneumonia, CHF, and CAD patients on vents.
Some huge medical centers are getting about a 10% weaned from the vent rate, with very reliable predictors of who is never coming off the vent.
No single medication, or combination of medications is going to be a magic bullet for a cure. The medical background and underlying conditions of many of these patients is such that they would never be coming off the vent completely independent of COVID.
Statistically, these deaths are overwhelmingly and predominately coming from those likely to die at any time from underlying age, conditions, risks, etc.
Keep your fingers crossed, but a vaccine is far from guaranteed.
I wish America had not taken a painful punch to the face with a shattered, bleeding nose.
But a tourniquet to the neck on everyone is not the cure to broken noses on some.
Especially when the people with a broken nose already had a non survivable brain tumor.
People typically struck hard by this are also over represented with the contraindications for Hydroxychloroquine, or even a macrolide.
The risks for massive viral loads we are exposing or emergency, critical, and intensive care resources to,
In futile care for natural end of life events, and the resources they tie up,
Risk using up a system that will be unable to maximize survival among actual, recoverable victims leading a productive, and otherwise able to return to productive, lives.
We have literally let people out of prison so they don’t catch COVID, that have murdered people that were not about to die of COVID or anything else.
I can’t properly condense and convey the insanity.
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