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I'n an Intensive Care specialist when I'm not listening to music. About half of the deaths I'm seeing from this are from cardiac causes, not respiratory. In face , from a lung point of view , some of this who die are making slight improvements . What I'm seeing is an abrupt deterioration in the cardiovascular system akin to an acute myocarditis or severe viral cardiomyopathy. Once this happens , there appears to be an inexorable decline towards irreversible cardiac death. I've seen bad swine flu ( in fact, got it from a sick patient). This is worse, far worse despite what the so called experts say.
Another report from the front lines:
We live in a townhouse, in a structure of 4 units, two lower, two upper. We are in one of the lower units, and the unit next door to us is occupied by a doctor/OBGYN at a major hospital in Boston and her police officer friend. Both are in this fight in their own ways, and take extreme precautions when getting back home. One of the upstairs units is a recovering covid19 patient, about whom we found out just yesterday, after he fully recovered, and unfortunately he told no one until he was out of the woods. He claims he had very little contact with the common areas and used gloves/mask/wipes, only running downstairs to pick up food at the main entrance that others left for him on a daily basis. His only symptoms were a cough and very high fever for a number of days, and his test came back positive only the day before his full recovery.
The way the doctor described the symptoms of this disease is: a) nothing like the common flu or colds, ie. nothing that has to do with runny nose and the like; b) everything to do with dry cough and high fever, with typical loss of taste. She said this virus attacks the lungs, period. She described the situations she deals with at the hospital as nothing anyone has seen before, a war zone, and especially in NYC where she has friends, it's worse than 9-11 in terms of dying patients, and obviously in terms of threat to the medical staff. All of that is not news at this point, but is first-hand confirmation of what we read from credible, worthy news sources.
She also confirmed what you wrote regarding cardiac deaths, and of course, that this is really a bad disease. We did not discuss treatments.
The bottom line for me is this:
1) There may be sick people all around us that we don't know about, so extreme precautions are mandatory
2) This disease has nothing to do with the flu (and is in fact much worse) as one idiotic TV & radio network we all recognize used to tout for a while, parroting the words of its fake, ignorant and now-dangerous leader-model (Feb 26: "View this the same as the flu")
3) There are true warriors out there whom we need to thank, and who run to the front lines every day rather selflessly, and I am proud to be living right next to two of them
Take this disease VERY seriously.
