What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month ago
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#2Mirror: http://archive.md/maTHi
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#3> This was rebuilding the engine on a car going 100 miles per hour.
It isn't ideal, but this environment may make it much easier to rejig care standards.
The large number of patients with very similar symptoms would make it straightforward to test ideas out. I would also expect that the dire nature of the situation also makes it practical to experiment in a way that would not be possible normally.
It'll be harrowing and traumatic for the doctors, but the circumstances are conducive to promote swift learning about respiratory diseases. The fast way to learn is to be able to break a thing in many different ways. Not normally practical for health due to legislation and community outcry.
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Clickbait maybe, but as with all Times coverage of the Coronavirus there is no paywall, at least for me.
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#6That if you're under 54 corona virus isn't any more deadly than the flu?
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#8Anecdata: I distinctly remember spending a lot of time lying on my stomach in hospital beds during several stints of double pneumonia I experienced as a child, some 30 years ago. It's hard to imagine that front line doctors didn't know about proning a month ago.
Is this a technique that went out of vogue since my childhood, only to be replaced with a reliance on sedation and ventilators, and is it making a comeback due to the lack of ventilators?
Or it it because proning unconscious, intubated patients is hard work and requires three nurses? I can imagine that being difficult to do when your ICU is swamped. Here's what that looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6jT9R7WJs
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#9That if you're under 54 corona virus isn't any more deadly than the flu?
You've made a claim (that people under 54 who get covid-19 are not more likely to die than people under 54 who get flu).
What stats are you basing that on please? Because I can't find any stats that support this claim.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clickbait maybe, but as with all Times coverage of the Coronavirus there is no paywall, at least for me.
I only see the first paragraph and a notice telling me to create an account to continue.
If this is what u mean U saw, "Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode.", then u could be in a private browsing-mode, and hence u could not go further than first para.
Edit: spelling