@flowergirl
I don't trust CDC or WHO. Especially after the CDC changed their PPE guidelines weekly at the expense of healthcare workers safety to solve the lack of PPE. The media, government is hiding stuff. Ask any nurses, respiratory therapists, doctors, who work in a hard hit zone in the hospitals and you will get the answer that it's much worst than the media say. We are already working on a Code Triage to only allow supportive care for some patients who are critically ill because we anticipate we will not have enough resources for everyone. I lost trust in the CDC when they said it's ok for us to use makeshift masks, like scarfs and masks. We know it's airborne, WHO said it's airborne, CDC initially said so, then changed it once they realized we don't have enough respirators.
Ever since Covid-19, we have many code blues, rapid response, and sepsis alert calls. These patients are sick. Once they are on a ventilator, they stay on it for weeks, and may initially look like they are getting better, only to tank into multiple organs failure and cytokines storm. Besides pneumonia, sepsis, organs failure, myocarditis, CHF, are all common complications with covid-19. These patients are treated like ARDS, prone, ventilated, with pressors to keep their blood pressure up and parlytics to paralyze their muscles so they can be vented.
It upsets me that people who are not in the frontline, risking their lives are praising the CDC and telling us that this virus is just like the flu. We have healthcare workers that are sick, some even in the ICU.
@flowergirl
I think we are just in the early stages of the virus, as weeks go by more and more young people will catch the virus.
Old people are just quicker than young people when it comes to showing signs.
I believe in January that CDC didn't even conclude that the virus can transfer from animal to human.
This is a virus that humans has never seen before so anything can happen.
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