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2020-09-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| 2020-09-23 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Certainly a co-morbidity factor

Yes.
She served helping others anyway.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-23 13:19|| 2020-09-23 13:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-09-23 15:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-09-23 15:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I expect Houston's population is greater than Dallas and San Antonio together, with more of the ~~targeted~~ susceptible demographic.

I will also add that Houston has some of the best medical facilities in the world.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-23 15:49|| 2020-09-23 15:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-09-23 16:52|| Front Page Top

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