Did NY ever come close to the requested 40,000 ventilators?
Did NY ever come close to the requested 40,000 ventilators?
Hobby Lawyer wrote:
If ventilators are reserved for only the most dire cases because they are in short supply, wouldn’t there naturally be a high percentage of deaths?
Stop being so logical. This is letsrun.com, home of stupid conspiracy theorists.
Cameron Kyle-Sidell is a hero. He blew this ventilator mistreatment wide open. We need more doctors like him.
It's time to re-open the economy too. Numbers are not high enough to justify the actions. For all we know, the virus has mutated to something less lethal than wuhan. Did the 1918 pandemic end with a vaccine? This virus looks like it is losing steam based on the numbers.
No vaccine to restart business. No antibody ID card either.
A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:
Read this a few days ago and it sounded promising, then was deleted from medium...
http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcbThis paper seems to back it up.
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173I think doctors are figuring out this is a blood disease and not a respiratory one. Oh, and hydroxychloroquine works.......
Yeah...that article was pretty good. But problem was he took a lot of it from Doris Loh who had been talking about it for weeks...and did not give any credit whatsoever. He did good job of explaining things.
https://www.evolutamente.it/stop-ards-now-with-ascorbic-acid/BlueNorther wrote:
Hobby Lawyer wrote:
If ventilators are reserved for only the most dire cases because they are in short supply, wouldn’t there naturally be a high percentage of deaths?
Stop being so logical. This is letsrun.com, home of stupid conspiracy theorists.
You sure about that? Might be home of knee jerk reactionaries who can't stand anything that jars their confirmation bias.
That aspect was specifically addressed in the article and of the paragraphs I highlighted- 2nd para- try reading.
Again another comment that reveals the poster reactionary tendency.
Let’s be honest the President expected it to go from 15 cases to zero.
It was optimist and I must say good cheerleading by President for the country.
The down side is that Trump didn’t stock up on ventilators and other essential supplies because he believed the number would fall, not rise.
It’s easy to be critical but he probably did get that wrong.
Generally erythropoiesis falls off with age and older people are prone to anemia. Hemoglobin levels are highest in the young. The levels drop off in elderly men, but not in women.
In the first Chinese study, men outnumbers women 2:1. Patients hemoglobin levels were at the low end of the range and then decreased by 50%. So the idea that it reduces hemoglobin should be well known.
Haemoglobin (g/L; normal range 130·0–175·0) 129·8 (14·8)
Decreased 50 (51%)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30211-7/fulltextConfirmation bias this.
A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:
student of economics wrote:
What is the education background of the guy in the first article? It seems logical, but if the guy's formal education is similar to trump's and peter navarro's I think we should know.
I believe it is Dr. Andrew Gaiziunas.
Here's another goodie:
https://croachmd.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/covid-hemoglobin-hypothesis
He's an ENT doctor so he is way outside his wheelhouse. I wouldn't trust anyone but an Infectious Diseases Physician or hematologist on this subject.
30000 ventilators wrote:
Cameron Kyle-Sidell is a hero. He blew this ventilator mistreatment wide open. We need more doctors like him.
It's time to re-open the economy too. Numbers are not high enough to justify the actions. For all we know, the virus has mutated to something less lethal than wuhan. Did the 1918 pandemic end with a vaccine? This virus looks like it is losing steam based on the numbers.
No vaccine to restart business. No antibody ID card either.
How is this virus loosing steam? Yesterday we had a record # of new cases and # of deaths.
2,108 AMERICANS died yesterday and we have these weird incels pushing a bullsh!t narrative.
Here here. Some doctors talking about the immune response being potentially as damaging as the virus. I don’t know if that’s true in the clinic, but it’s definitely what’s happening in the economy. We have incompetent politicians like Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti to thank for that. They gotta go!
Correction: Hear! Hear! Thanks Siri. You can go along with Newsom and the other one.
Same medical background/degree as Gates...
Alice Cooper wrote:
A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:
I believe it is Dr. Andrew Gaiziunas.
Here's another goodie:
https://croachmd.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/covid-hemoglobin-hypothesisHe's an ENT doctor so he is way outside his wheelhouse. I wouldn't trust anyone but an Infectious Diseases Physician or hematologist on this subject.
I understand your skepticism and desire for credentials. The author of the article below is a researcher/scientist...not an MD. However, it is meticulously researched with over 100 references cited at the end. In my opinion, it is so well-documented, it has immense credibility. And given that it jives with anecdotal accounts from those in the trenches, it's at least worth consideration.
https://www.evolutamente.it/covid-19-ards-cell-free-hemoglobin-the-ascorbic-acid-connection/?fbclid=IwAR0Du5KnHhHQ1qjA4-6lvVfH3A13gXwF_p_bwvhaQrTHlC_6e8DmZHzLqPgWine & Pikachu wrote:
I find this theory very interesting. I have no medical background whatsoever, but I
I stopped reading right there.
Once you're on a ventilator your mortality rate is 100% the only way to survive is a lung transplant so I don't get this thread.
marshal wrote:
Problem with this paper is that it is only a computer simulated molecular docking. It's highly unreliable and not peer-reviewed. Strongest argument against this hypothesis is that if it were true we would not see rapid improvement in those who are treated successfully with antivirals like Remdesivir as the damaged red blood cells would take weeks to rebuild as RBC life time is around 120 days. Also we would see huge increase in erythropoietin but as far as I know that is not the case.
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173I think doctors are figuring out this is a blood disease and not a respiratory one. Oh, and hydroxychloroquine works.......
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Red blood cells take 7 days to mature, but have a lifespan of 120 days. Hemoglobin isn't only contained inside blood cells. If it binds to porphyrin, is it possible that process is reversible and that the treatment woundn't be related to the lifespan of a red blood cell?
Anemia due to low iron levels is associated with a loss of smell. Loss of smell is a symptom.
The paper seems to show that it can molecularly bind to Porphyrin and that action is protected by chloroquine. Their argument about it binding to porphyrin is pretty interesting because they conclude that indicates that it is an ancient virus. The possible treatment comes from a tree bark.
Chloroquine supposedly increases the secretion of porphyrin.
It is sort of interesting that there are a lot of drugs that trigger Porphyria. It there is a molecular binding, would it be good or bad to have excess porphyrin? Several antivirals trigger it, Tagamet HB is used to treat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PorphyriaI extubated several COVID patients this week who are still alive and improving. No one w COVID is getting a lung transplant, they would not survive.