This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

[DaveC]

The real truth is a great majority of news networks, including Fox and CNN, report real news with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

We need to distinguish opinion and editorials vs news reporting.

 

[NorthStar]

I wonder why it lives so much longer on a surgical mask?

I really don't know Bud. If someone knows I like to know too.

 

[Al M.]

Grim news if true:

Coronavirus unlikely to significantly diminish with warm weather, National Academies of Sciences panel finds

 

[Gregadd]

It was summer in Australia when Tom Hanks and his wife got sick.
Don't listen to our president.

 

[Gregadd]

The real truth is a great majority of news networks, including Fox and CNN, report real news with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

We need to distinguish opinion and editorials vs news reporting.

Funny. That is exactly what Fox says about other networks.

 

[rbbert]

And the cautions re: hydroxychloroquine mania continue to accumulate

https://pubpeer.com/publications/B4044A446F35DF81789F6F20F8E0EE

https://www.isac.world/news-and-publications/official-isac-statement

 

[KeithR]

the young impacted and the "infection enigma":

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/8/21207269/covid-19-coronavirus-risk-factors

 

[Folsom]

the young impacted and the "infection enigma":

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/8/21207269/covid-19-coronavirus-risk-factors

The complication of trying to find genetics that tell us something is compounded by epigenetics and things we can't quantify easily.

Even if two people have a gene that gets associated with cv19, that doesn't mean they are both expressing that gene.

Also seemingly healthy people don't always have good gut bacteria, which is where the immune system starts.

 

[Surfski]

Hi Folsom

These are all very complex questions and well above my pay grade.I can only leave answers and recommendations to those health care heroes who are on the front line battling this horrible virus. I would defer to any and all thoughts posted here by those more qualified than I am. I anxiously await some of the thoughts of surfski who is seeing this first hand

Sorry for late reply , Steve. Last night I had to ventilate two of our nurses and one of my colleagues. Sort of ran out of time. I'll post a few more thoughts a bit later.

 

[Folsom]

Sorry for late reply , Steve. Last night I had to ventilate two of our nurses and one of my colleagues. Sort of ran out of time. I'll post a few more thoughts a bit later.

Yikes. I hope the best for them and everyone (including you).

 

[treitz3]

@Surfski - Best wishes for all involved. Stay safe sir.

Tom

 

[Gregadd]

I think a lot of the public do not understand what ventilate means.

 

[Folsom]

I think a lot of the public do not understand what ventilate means.

Intubation is the term that should be used, probably. I read that restraints to stop people from pulling it out is maybe the norm.

 

[Surfski]

I think a lot of the public do not understand what ventilate means.

Sorry, then think of it as life support.
Someone asked about Procalcitonin. In about 75% of cases , the admission procalc is low. I do monitor it as a surrogate for a) either wrong diagnosis or B) as a marker of bacterial superinfection ( secondary bacterial infection on a background of a primary viral infection). I'm not clever enough to know why the admission levels are often low- but it doesn't particularly bother me. What is interesting is that we almost invariably see a low or low normal white cell count with lymphpenia. Don't recall seeing that with H1N1.

 

[Steve williams]

Sorry for late reply , Steve. Last night I had to ventilate two of our nurses and one of my colleagues. Sort of ran out of time. I'll post a few more thoughts a bit later.

Those 2 sentences spoke volumes.

Be safe

 

[howiebrou]

Sorry for late reply , Steve. Last night I had to ventilate two of our nurses and one of my colleagues. Sort of ran out of time. I'll post a few more thoughts a bit later.

Silent applause and thanks.

 

[Gregadd]

Unfortunately i have first hand knowledge of what ventilation is.
I think the public would be angry if they understood.

 

[rbbert]

This is interesting

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

 

[treitz3]

Very. My question would be is that what is "actually" being reported. Not only in the US but abroad...

Tom

 

[bonzo75]

Doctor points out breathing technique that helped JK Rowling recover

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/07/doct...lped-jk-rowling-recover-coronavirus-12519409/