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Certaintly will be LTRTR.
History shows humans don’t always display their best side!
Some people were being very dismissive and calling out some as alarmists , over the top reactions, dramatic, etc , heck even Trump still refers as fake news !
I see this year testing us all on our humanity.
This will cost more than lives!
Empty stadiums I heard more than once referred by a few as a real possibility.
Are we sure this is not a nuclear outbreak? I must be hallucinating hearing/seeing this every day. The whole world's f*cking gone bonkers.
The reality of what happens when a health system is overwhelmed.
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Thread by @jasonvanschoor: From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a qu…
Thread by @jasonvanschoor: From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel thegive you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about w…
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The reality of what happens when a health system is overwhelmed.
Thread by @jasonvanschoor: From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a qu…
Thread by @jasonvanschoor: From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel thegive you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about w…
Sobering reading indeed.
@23.21.159 ...
You may have other things to worry about, but I noticed Denmark had a substantial jump of 66 new cases today, up to 156. Anything of interest you want to share?
Edit: 172 new cases, up to 262.
You may have other things to worry about, but I noticed Denmark had a substantial jump of 66 new cases today, up to 156. Anything of interest you want to share?
Edit: 172 new cases, up to 262.
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Here's another account Lee, from another Italian ICU doctor in Bergamo (home to one of my favourite football teams, Atalanta).
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The twitter unroll is actually a summary of a longer article in Italian linked below - use google chrome and autotranslate.
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A short part of the article.
"Now, however, that need for beds in all its drama has arrived. One after another, the departments that had been emptied are filling up at an impressive rate. The display boards with the names of the sick, of different colors depending on the operating unit they belong to, are now all red and instead of the surgical operation there is the diagnosis, which is always the same cursed: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.
Now, tell me which flu virus causes such a rapid tragedy. Because that's the difference (now I'm going down a bit in the technical field): in classical flu, apart from infecting much less population over several months, cases can be complicated less frequently, only when the VIRUS destroying the protective barriers of the Our respiratory tract allows BACTERIA normally resident in the upper tract to invade the bronchi and lungs, causing more serious cases. Covid 19 causes a banal influence in many young people, but in many elderly people (and not only) a real SARS because it arrives directly in the alveoli of the lungs and infects them making them unable to perform their function.
Sorry, but to me as a doctor it doesn't reassure you that the most serious are mainly elderly people with other pathologies. The elderly population is the most represented in our country and it is difficult to find someone who, above 65 years of age, does not take at least the tablet for pressure or diabetes. I also assure you that when you see young people who end up in intubated intensive care, pronated or worse in ECMO (a machine for the worst cases, which extracts the blood, re-oxygenates it and returns it to the body, waiting for the organism, hopefully, heal your lungs), all this tranquility for your young age passes there."
Thread by @silviast9: 1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nothing was going to ha…
Thread by @silviast9: 1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nos going to happen "here". The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there's little to…
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The twitter unroll is actually a summary of a longer article in Italian linked below - use google chrome and autotranslate.
«Con le nostre azioni influenziamo la vita e la morte di molte persone»
Con un lungo post su Facebook, il dottor Daniele Macchini, medico dell’Humanitas Gavazzeni, racconta la sua vita in prima linea per contrastare il coronavirus. È una testimonianza da brividi, da leggere dalla prima all’ultima riga.
www.ecodibergamo.it
A short part of the article.
"Now, however, that need for beds in all its drama has arrived. One after another, the departments that had been emptied are filling up at an impressive rate. The display boards with the names of the sick, of different colors depending on the operating unit they belong to, are now all red and instead of the surgical operation there is the diagnosis, which is always the same cursed: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.
Now, tell me which flu virus causes such a rapid tragedy. Because that's the difference (now I'm going down a bit in the technical field): in classical flu, apart from infecting much less population over several months, cases can be complicated less frequently, only when the VIRUS destroying the protective barriers of the Our respiratory tract allows BACTERIA normally resident in the upper tract to invade the bronchi and lungs, causing more serious cases. Covid 19 causes a banal influence in many young people, but in many elderly people (and not only) a real SARS because it arrives directly in the alveoli of the lungs and infects them making them unable to perform their function.
Sorry, but to me as a doctor it doesn't reassure you that the most serious are mainly elderly people with other pathologies. The elderly population is the most represented in our country and it is difficult to find someone who, above 65 years of age, does not take at least the tablet for pressure or diabetes. I also assure you that when you see young people who end up in intubated intensive care, pronated or worse in ECMO (a machine for the worst cases, which extracts the blood, re-oxygenates it and returns it to the body, waiting for the organism, hopefully, heal your lungs), all this tranquility for your young age passes there."
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Mate over here in Abu Dhabi even dental practices are stretching use of masks as they can't get new stock. The ppl that need it the most are medical practitioners. There's a strict process for fitment and joe blogs will most likely render the mask ineffective anyway so not entirely wrong to generalise you're best without them.
Yes perhaps for the 20 minutes the masks are designed to protect for. After that they become a platform that promotes virus orgies. Do you want that on your schnozz?
To amplify the problem he considers himself the smartest person in the room.
You're telling me that a P2 respirator mask, properly fitted and not contaminated with hands etc, isn't good for ~8 hours?
I bought mine from a hardware store nearly a month ago so I'm not depriving anyone in health care. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has any in stock to sell to the public now.
A respirator is personal protective equipment that prevents the wearer from inhaling aerosols (dust, smoke, mist) as well as vapors or gases (disinfectants, anesthetic gases) that are health hazards. Unavailable in pharmacy, it protects the wearer from airborne infectious agents i.e. against contamination by a virus such as coronavirus, SARS, H1N1, etc.
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Surgical Masks, Respirators, Face Shields: Which Masks Actually Protect Against Coronavirus? - MedicalExpo e-Magazine
The world is facing a shortage of masks and other protective equipment against the new coronavirus. What kind of masks actually protect against Covid-19?
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Case count excluding China/Diamond Princess (updated 11:30pm)
39,762 cases
1,213 deaths (3.05%)
1,227 severe (3%)
32,321 mild (81%)
5,001 recovered (13%)
Mortality rate outisde China tops 3% for the first time.
Italy +977 cases, +168 deaths and three times China's number of infections per capita.
Spain +443 => 1674
Demark +172 => 262
Switzerland +123 => 497
39,762 cases
1,213 deaths (3.05%)
1,227 severe (3%)
32,321 mild (81%)
5,001 recovered (13%)
Mortality rate outisde China tops 3% for the first time.
Italy +977 cases, +168 deaths and three times China's number of infections per capita.
Spain +443 => 1674
Demark +172 => 262
Switzerland +123 => 497
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Its fair to say that Italy is a significantly smaller geographic region, so that per capita infection is understandably higher.
On the flipside the Chinese response, when it came, was and remains a significant shut-down. Workplaces are opening this week after a month-long restriction.
