#Ventilators

Starting a thread on my experience at a nursing student being called to work in a Coronavirus unit We (my clinical group) will be starting mid-April, on the 21. We
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1. In the 1920’s, naturopathic doctors and pharmaceutical doctors were seen as equal. Just, doctors. The pharmaceutical companies began propaganda smears of naturopathic doctors and fear campaigns. They manufactured medicines
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Medtech giant Medtronic is quite a piece of work. The company started as a Minneapolis repair shop before growing to be one of the world's largest, most profitable - and
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BREAKING: Texas is reporting it's worst day from COVID-19 since the pandemic began with 98 people dying from the virus just since yesterday and a new record of 9,610 people
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#ThanksObama for Killing 542 civilians, 178 children with your 571 personally signed drone strikes. For the confused. Trump is no better, but you just nominated Biden to go up against
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Things I have always known about Boris Johnson - he likes the ladies, he runs his mouth off, he stretches the truth to breaking point and he gets shit done
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1 in 4 chance of death: In UK RECOVERY trial of Dexamethasone—#COVID19 mortality rate in TREATMENT group (got dexamethasone) for patients needing O2 was 23.3% (vs. 26.2% in patients w/out
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Let's talk about "rationing" of intensive care in the context of #COVID19 (thread)First of all, it's not happening in the UK. There are lots of misconceptions, which stem from the
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Here's a prime example of misinformation & omission of context in COVID media coverage:Today, @12News in AZ pushes a story that "These 4 graphs show Arizona is losing the fight
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1000 people dead today and this moron is talking about impeachment? The fucking hands accordion move is annoying Dr CovidBecky is still comparing us to Spain and Italy. B**tch we
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FFP3 vs Surgical mask PPE guidelines are based on SARS-CoV-2 transmission being large droplet spread only on the general ward. This JAMA article illustrates why that assumption is flawed. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852
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COVID Update August 4: We’re being asked to swallow an extraordinary amount of bullshit. The following things are not true. 1/ “We have enough, or too much, testing.”Yeah, no.We are
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Germany’s virus response shines unforgiving light on Britain - ⁦@FT⁩“If you follow a herd immunity strategy, why would you not build treatment and testing capacity? That’s what puzzles me” said
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Today in #coronavirus news: UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is among the labs stepping in to fill the still-massive Covid-19 testing void. The Crispr lab is using its own funds
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“Really Want to Flood NY and NJ”: Internal Documents Reveal Team Trump’s Chloroquine Master Planhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/internal-documents-reveal-team-trumps-chloroquine-master-plan Forget testing, ventilators, and PPE. Donald Trump’s
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Remember when we were told we had to flatten the curve and we’d lockdown for a few weeks to ramp up PPE and free up ventilators or else we’d have
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