Cross Post because why not… 
Pardon for replying to the bot, but this caused a set of really morbid thoughts.
You know why mortality is down so much right? It’s because we were so insanely bad at the beginning of this. It’s rare for me to look back at a case and think, well if we had done something differently that person might have made it. Like, less than five people in my career rare.
March and April? Yeah mistakes were made. A part of me wants to blame the Italians for sucking (and god did they suck, hcq? early intubation? thanks assholes), but it took us awhile to fix our approach too. I had so many people die of what looks like blood clots in the lungs in retrospect. So many people who I just sat on and didn’t give steroids to. So many people who got HCQ. So many people who I put on breathing machines early.
Anyways, we’re better at treating this through brute force trial and error and a whole bunch of death that eats at me still. Fuck this guy.
(also lol @ me given my ‘do you like being sad’ comment, irony)
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The lady next to sunglass dude is doing the ok-sign too. So far I’ve seen -zero- MSMers mention her.
Yeah, this is Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during WW2. I’ll take all the help we can get and we can fight them again later.
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I would guess Republican never-Trumpers make up some substantial portion of their donation base.
United States COVID deaths are the highest in the world because COUNTING OF THE DEAD BODIES is way up! We have by far the most, and best, DEAD BODY COUNTERS in the world.
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One thing I still don’t understand is why exactly early intubation is bad. Let’s say you have two identical COVID patients, with same disease severity and everything else. You treat them the same: anticoagulation, steroids, prone positioning, and anything else. Both are in the ICU. The only difference is that one is intubated as soon as possible and the other is given oxygen, but not intubated until it cannot be avoided. For the guy on the vent, the settings are chosen with the knowledge that early intubation is supposedly bad.
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Imagine the that the guy that doesn’t get on the vent immediately eventually ends up on a vent two days later. Why exactly does he do better?
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Imagine that the guy that doesn’t get on the vent gets really close to needing one but successfully avoids it entirely. Why exactly does he do better? Why wouldn’t you necessarily expect a recovery from the guy on the vent?
DIdn’t realize Wisconsin was located on Arrakis.
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