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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Why Are So Many People In Italy Dying Of The Coronavirus? On Saturday, the health minister of France sparked headlines all over the globe when he tweeted the following
The taking of anti-inflammatories [ibuprofen, cortisone
] could be a factor in aggravating the infection. In case of fever, take paracetamol. If you are already taking anti-inflammatory drugs, ask your doctors advice. Unfortunately, many people in Europe have been immediately reaching for ibuprofen once they get the virus because they want something that will help them deal with the pain. In fact, researchers discovered that most Italians that developed serious complications once they caught the coronavirus had been taking ibuprofen at home
They studied why the disease pathway in Italy is more serious, finding that most patients took ibuprofen at home. Researchers joined the virus and ibuprofen in the laboratory and came to the conclusion that administering ibuprofen accelerates multiplication of the virus and is related to a more serious course of the disease. They recommend to avoid ibuprofen and to administer paracetamol, aspirin, diclofenac. Consultant Pediatrician in London John Greenwood was quoted as saying: We have just been sent a medical alert that no one is to use anti-inflammatories (e.g. Ibruprofen, Voltarol, naproxen, and others) for pain or high temperature. Use paracetamol instead. There seems to be a link between severe cases of COVID-19 affecting young people with no underlying illnesses and taking anti-inflammatories. Initial reports started coming from French doctors on Friday. This has been confirmed by infectious diseases consultants here there are four young people in ICU in Cork who have no underlying illnesses all were taking anti-inflammatories and there are concerns this has caused a more severe illness. This information needs to get out to everyone as quickly as possible, but so far the mainstream media in the United States has been very slow to pick up on this story. And that is extremely unfortunate, because accurate information could make the difference between life and death in a lot of cases. On Facebook, a British man named Dan Collins shared what happened when he gave his very young daughter ibuprofen to treat her coronavirus infection
To those of you that have children please read If your child has symptoms of corona virus, DO NOT give them ibuprofen Amelias been unwell since Tuesday, cough, fever, cold. This morning she came into my room and got into my bed burning hot and not wanting to get up. Anyone that knows Amelia knows that this isnt like her at all! Once shes awake shes awake and spends the day bouncing off the walls! We took her temperature and it was 38, along with every other symptom of corona virus, so called 111 who said theyd send out paramedics within 2 hours to check on her We couldnt get calpol anywhere in staple hill yesterday so got nurofen instead thinking nothing of it, within an hour of giving her nurofen she dropped dramatically. She was panting while trying to breathe, her heart rate was very rapid, she couldnt keep her eyes open, couldnt lift her head up, her body was shaking, she started being sick on herself and her temperature had risen to 39.4! We called back up and they sent out an emergency ambulance, once the paramedics got here they managed to bring her temp and stats down a bit, theyre still higher than normal but not dangerous high anymore. Now shes back on calpol shes back to just being her poorly self. The paramedics only told us while here that were not to give her ibuprofen! The paramedic said about self isolating and calling back if her temp rises that high again, so I asked if its just for the 7 days as its already been 5 days but they said that as she has all symptoms were to keep her isolated until all symptoms are gone. So please dont give them ibuprofen! For those that arent familiar with Nurofen, the primary active ingredient it contains is ibuprofen. If we dont get the word out about this, a lot of otherwise mild cases could become very serious, and our hospitals will be even more overwhelmed. In the United Kingdom, one doctor is already warning of a complete and utter national nightmare. The following comes from an article entitled Im a Doctor in Britain. Were Heading Into the Abyss.
Ten days ago, I was asked to see a patient. Im a respiratory specialist in an intensive-care unit at a hospital in London, so it wasnt surprising that the patient needed a ventilator. It seemed fairly typical. But the patient turned out to have the coronavirus our hospitals first case and one of nearly 2,000 people who have so far tested positive in Britain. I hadnt worn a mask. Soon I developed a cough. Though I experienced neither fever nor breathlessness, I was told to self-isolate for 14 days. Thats where I am now, in self-isolation. And Im not the only one from my hospital. After just one patient with Covid-19, a quarter of our junior staff are off with coughs and sniffles we would normally work through. A single case of the coronavirus has wreaked havoc in our hospital. Of course the U.S. is facing a similar scenario. In fact, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just warned that his city will run out of medical supplies in just a matter of weeks
New York City has recorded 1664 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, taking the total number to 3615. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the shocking statistic in a press conference held Thursday afternoon, with the official number soaring by over 1000 in the hours since state Governor Andrew Cuomo updated the public earlier in the morning. He later told CNN that the city will run out of medical supplies in between two and three weeks if infections continue at the current rate. And New York City pediatric surgeon Cornelia Griggs just wrote an open letter to the New York Times in which she proclaimed that the sky is falling, and she ominously warned that we are about to face an absolutely unprecedented public health crisis that we are not ready for
Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. Im a board-certified surgeon and critical care specialist who spent much of my training attending to traumas in the emergency room and doing the rounds at Harvard hospitals intensive care units. Im now in my last four months of training as a pediatric surgeon in New York City. Part of my job entails waking in the middle of the night to rush to the childrens hospital to put babies on a form of life support called ECMO, a service required when a childs lungs are failing even with maximum ventilator support. Scenarios that mimic end-stage Covid-19 are part of my job. Panic is not in my vocabulary; the emotion has been drilled out of me in nine years of training. This is different. We are living in a global public health crisis moving at a speed and scale never witnessed by living generations. The cracks in our medical and financial systems are being splayed open like a gashing wound. No matter how this plays out, life will forever look a little different for all of us. Anyone that is not taking this outbreak seriously at this point is just being delusional. One patient that survived the virus says that she constantly felt like she had glass in her lungs, the Washington Post is projecting that 1.1 million Americans could die in a worst-case scenario, and the virus is now starting to make a big time comeback in countries where it was thought to be contained. Poster Comment: That and all the ignorant and unruly immigrants. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
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99% of patients killed by coronavirus in Italy had existing illnesses
When the bus crash happened in Pennsylvania on the way home from working Security at Woodstock 94, one guy was inhaling when the windshield went out on the bus. He got glass shards in his lungs. He was one evacuated by helicopter. Several others were also evacuated by helicopter. One guy when the excitement was over, he sat down next to the guard rail and went into shock. I hollered, "We got a man down over here!" A Medic came over and put an IV in his arm. I was on other side of guard rail. I stuck my hand in the air and the Medic put the IV bag in my hand. That guy got the good looking nurse in the ambulance. :-/ "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
In Britain officialdom has up to now been guided by the "herd immunity" philosophy which has suddenly given way to putting the nation on an emergency footing. The PM will probably suffer politically from having put the virus thing on the back burner. A friend of ours in London who is a medical researcher with immediate access to a large medical center was exhibiting symptoms last week. The health system people told him that no COVID testing available. He was told to stay home. The celebrated NHS has been caught well behind the curve in reacting to the COVID virus. Free testing is ramping up here in Houston. One of four drive in testing centers is already in operation -- ID but no insurance is required. The other three public centers are soon to go into operation when enough protective gear becomes available for the staff. It seems that we are doing something right.
NHS had 15 ICU beds available when this virus started making the rounds in the UK.
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Thanks for correcting me. I'm out in space these days - getting up before the crack o' dawn to get some in shopping. Kroger is crazy busy.
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