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Subject: Fwd: Covid 19 Survival Update -- really good info
Hi everyone,
I am sure you know this information but I think it is a great summary and you
may like having this to pass onto others.
Have a good day!
Rebecca
Important newer information you should know regarding Covid-19 passed on by
an MD friend of mine. Hopefully it will bolster your mental outlook 🙏.
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From: James Linehan
Subject: Fwd: Covid 19 Survival Update -- really good info
Date: August 24, 2020 at 4:45:36 PM PDT
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Enhanced Covid 19 Survival Options -a ray of hope
A short, fact based account of progress that has been made in the fight
against covid 19.
A professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto sent this clearly worded update:
For this pandemic, there’s a greater chance of survival for those
getting infected 3 months later like June 2020 than those who got
infected 3 months earlier say February 2020. The reason for this is
that Doctors and scientists know more about Covid-19 now than 3 months
ago and hence are able to treat patients better. I will list
*5 important things* that we know now that we didn’t know in February
2020 for your understanding.
1. COVID-19 was initially thought to cause deaths due to *pneumonia- a
lung infection*- and so Ventilators were thought to be the best way to
treat sick patients who couldn’t breathe. *Now we are realizing that
the virus causes blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs* and
other parts of the body and this causes reduced oxygenation. Now
we know that just providing oxygen by ventilators will not help but we
have to prevent and dissolve the micro clots in the lungs. This is why
we are using drugs like *Aspirin and Heparin ( blood thinners that
prevents clotting) as protocol in treatment regimens in June 2020. *
2. Previously patients used to drop dead on the road or even before
reaching a hospital due to reduced oxygen in their blood- OXYGEN
SATURATION. This was because of *HAPPY HYPOXIA*- where even
though the oxygen saturation was gradually reducing the COVID-19 patients
did not
have symptoms until it became critically less, like sometimes even
70%. **Normally we become breathless if oxygen saturation reduces
below 90%. **This breathlessness is not triggered in COVID patients
and so we were getting the sick patients very late to the hospitals in
February 2020. Now since knowing about happy hypoxia we are monitoring
oxygen saturation of all COVID patients *with a simple home use pulse
oximeter and getting them to the hospital if their oxygen saturation drops
to 93% or less*. This gives more time for doctors to correct the
oxygen deficiency in the blood and a better survival chance in June
2020.
3. We did not have drugs to fight the coronavirus in February 2020.
We were only treating the complications caused by it... hypoxia. Hence
most patients became severely infected.
```**Now we have 2 important medicines
FAVIPIRAVIR & REMDESIVIR**```
These are ANTIVIRALS that can kill the coronavirus. By using these
two medicines we can prevent patients from becoming severely infected
and therefore cure them BEFORE THEY GO TO HYPOXIA.
This knowledge we had in JUNE 2020... not in February 2020.
4. Many Covid-19 patients die not just because of the virus but also
due the patient’s own immune system responding In an exaggerated
manner called *CYTOKINE STORM*. This stormy strong immune response not
only kills the virus but also kills the patients. In February 2020 we
didn’t know how to prevent it from happening. Now in June 2020, we
know that *easily available medicines called Steroids,* that doctors
around the world have been using for almost 80 years *can be used to
prevent the cytokine storm in some patients*.
5. Now we also know that people with hypoxia became better just by
making them lie down on their belly- known as prone position. Apart
from this a few days ago Israeli scientists have discovered that a
a chemical known as Alpha Defensin produced by the patients White blood
cells can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs and this
could possibly be prevented by a drug called Colchicine used over many
decades in the treatment of Gout.
So now we know for sure that patients have a better chance at
surviving the COVID-19 infection in June 2020 than in February 2020.
Going forward there’s nothing to panic about Covid-19 if we remember
that a person who gets infected now has a much better chance at survival
than one who got infected early on. However, as we can infer from the
ongoing death rates,
it is still deadly to certain people.
Let’s continue to follow precautions, wear masks and practice social
distancing.
Virus-free. www.avast.com