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TheDeeble said:
How many deaths from coronavirus is hard to say becuase we weren't testing for it.

My question would be had the US seen abnormally high instances of ill patients between December and March? Were there hospitals is the US that had overrun facilites of patients with pneumonia like symptoms before they were testing for coronavirus. More patients than normal needing respirators? Has there been an abnormally high amount of deaths due to illness with pneumonia symptoms? Any coronavirus illness/deaths will be hiding in those numbers before March.

I think I saw an article earlier saying Italy had noticed an uptick in the amount of ill patients needing respirators but didn't not know what was the reason was at the time.
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I just got a card from a family member who's mom passed and i took care of her on 2-8. Pneumonia in a relatively healthy 80 year old. Our Icu normally has 5-6 vents, we now have 18 out of 28 rooms who are on multiple drips when I left this morning on 2 icus. They called me asking me to come in after already doing 5 12s this week. This uptick has been happening in the last 3 weeks. My manager has been caught off guard because she didn't plan on turning into a critical care unit within 3 weeks. She's on the struggle bus. She actually had to come out of her office this week and show up on Saturday. Hmmmm.
 
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hog88 said:
First diagnosed as an upper respiratory infection and given antibiotic. Got worse so they gave me steroids helped bring the fever down some but still had a ton of congestion and difficulty breathing. It took about a month and a second round of steroids to start feeling normal, sickest I’ve been in my life.
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Do you know how you got infected?
 
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#10,140
hog88 said:
I could see how the elderly or people with lung problems could easily have trouble.
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I read an article that mentioned the virus codes itself to attack the lungs specifically. That's why this is such a big deal. If you're completely healthy before contracting it it still sucks jagged rocks.

Anyone with the LEAST little lung issue is at serious risk for major problems.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
The media and democrats called him a racist in January when he banned flights and all of the top people are on it right now which is what matters. What would having those people sitting around doing nothing for 2 years have done to prevent what is happening now? Would more tests help? I assume that is your answer as that’s the only thing that would likely be different. The answer is no. Right now we are treating the symptoms and that’s it. That’s all we can do u til a vaccine is created and one wouldn’t have been created faster because we didn’t know what kind of virus was coming until it actually came. “Oh, we warned you of a coming pandemic 2 years before it came.” Give me a f’n break. I’ll go ahead and warn everyone of a pandemic coming sometime in the future. I guarantee you I’m right. I guess I should get a cushy government job now. How about we worry about what’s actually happening now rather than trying to tear Trump down over BS? Nothing he nor anyone else could’ve done would’ve changed this situation.
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No, they called him a racist because he's a racist.
 
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