[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by 3catcircus

No mention of his comorbidities - it looked he was morbidly obese. Was he diabetic also? No mention of whether or not he had covid, knew it, and was sent home by his doctor to get worse before needing to be hospitalized. Additionally, we've known since last summer that being put on a vent has an 80% chance of a bad outcome.

Aggressive treatment with antivirals or ivermectin at the first signs has a far better outcome, based upon multiple clinical studies. Getting someone on ivermectin right away to deal with covid, assuming they have mild symptoms not requiring hospitalization or supplemental O2, should be the standard of care, same as getting someone on tamiflu within 48 hrs of symptoms when they test positive for the flu. Same as you'd give someone rabies vaccinations right away if they were bit by a known or suspected rabid animal. Same as you'd get someone started on cancer treatments right away rather than letting it progress to stage 4 before starting treatment.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/

https://files.covid19treatmentguidel...guidelines.pdf

It's pretty clear that not all hospitals are using cheap drugs that initial trials show work early in the disease progression for mild cases, nor are they using the proscribed course of treatment to lessen the chances of progression for more serious cases. It's all "go home until you can't breathe, then come back to die here so we can collect them federal bucks..."

Most people don't understand that the progression of disease if you are infected is dependent upon (amongst other factors like comorbidities and genetics) viral load which determines how quickly your immune system can "catch up" from an initial infection. Get a huge amount of virions and your immune system just can't keep up as the virus replicates. Smaller viral loads mean your immune system is closer in that foot race to allow it to catch up and then overwhelm the infected cells before disease progression starts to make it even harder for your bodies immune system to respond.

So maybe he should have known better than to play roulette.