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| Texas doctor, 28, dies from coronavirus after becoming infected treating positive patients in the ER and suffering a 'massive brain bleed' after months-long illness |
| 2020-09-23 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 The use of ECMO indicates last-resort conditions regarding oxygenation and points out the ineffectiveness of the ventilator in forcing air into lungs that are simply too damaged or fluid-filled to work. The infection rate among medical personnel is supposedly a lot higher per-capita than the general public, supposedly due to more frequent exposure to higher viral loads. |
| Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-23 16:52 |
| #5 I expect Houston's population is greater than Dallas and San Antonio together, with more of the I will also add that Houston has some of the best medical facilities in the world. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-23 15:49 |
| #4 Houston also has twice the number of deaths as San Antonio, and 2.5 times the Dallas death toll. And about 60% more than Hildalgo County, just across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-23 15:34 |
| #3 Sad. Another factor: A brain bleed can be a side effect of the ECMO, [extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, to oxygenate her blood because she was 'not responding well to the ventilator'] he explained. Another factor: I suppose if she was given HCQ early, the story would've included that, to make Trump lok bad. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-23 15:28 |
| #2 Certainly a co-morbidity factor Yes. She served helping others anyway. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-23 13:19 |
| #1 from the article.. "The doctor, who had a history of asthma, worked in the OB/GYN unit delivering babies but was working shifts in the ER treating COVID-19 patients as the state's hospitals buckled under the weight of soaring cases and deaths." emphasis mine. Certainly a co-morbidity factor the left will ignore. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2020-09-23 10:26 |