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Can anyone give a layman's summary of this? Too many technical terms and short-hands in the post itself and it would be useful info to if one is a patient under

• heyitsguay 7y ago
  If you ignore the medical technicalities which seem primarily intended for other doctors, the tl;dr is that social distancing ASAP is vital, and being young and healthy isn't a guarantee that you won't get very sick or die. Don't panic, but take it seriously.
• rediguanayum 7y ago
  I find these two posts from Italy more readable: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_of_a_surgeon_working_in_bergamo_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_... https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/1237142891077697538 https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753... IANAD but there are some nuggets to pull out: 1) They're seeing young (20's) patients w/o prior medical conditions show up 2) China used CT extensively to diagnose Covid-19 patients. This doc is pointing out its harder to that w/o contaminating everything 3) many are dying of cardiac arrest rather than inability to ventilate/oxygenate 4) lots of patients get sent to the ICU, seem to do better on "flolan" then die of cardiac arrest 5) seem to suggest that patients do well on Remdesivir (experimental anti-viral) but its hard to get a hold of
  • rasz 7y ago
    >lots of patients get sent to the ICU, seem to do better on "flolan" then die of cardiac arrest Didnt doctors in Wuhan discover the same thing? Why is Italy repeating this mistake?