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kleinbl00  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West

I've been simplifying that in conversation to "there's an 85% chance you'll stay out of the hospital with COVID-19 and if you do end up at the hospital, an 85% chance you'll walk out but if you end up on a ventilator, it's even odds you'll never come off of it."

I saw an article in the LA times this morning talking about heart and liver damage. it doesn't say much about the lungs. Anecdata of one, I feel a lot like I did when I spent the night breathing Testors Metalizer overnight and running is a bitch. Still coughing, it's still living in my high sinuses. But hey - I pulse-oxed a 96 April 3 and today I rolled a 99 so we'll call that recovery I guess.





b_b  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit, you got it? Sorry to hear that, and hope you're fully on the mend.

Please look into convalescent plasma when you're healed. All hospitals should be kissing your ass to get ahold of it.

kleinbl00  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They'll want proof I had it, which has been fucking impossible to prove. I know of nine tests. One of our midwives was at a party with her father-in-law who went to the hospital and tested positive. They wouldn't test her. The other eight are a friend's social circle, a number of which decided to go to an impromptu concert at a bar on March 14. Of the 200 people in the audience (!), six were able to get tests, and all tested positive. He also knows two people who died and then tested positive, both of whom were at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, US fatalities #1 and #15.

No, wait. I know of ten tests. One of my wife's patients tested negative after spending a day freaking out and going in an ambulance twice. Kidney infection.

We've got tests. My insurance won't cover them, because they won't cover my wife, which means I need my PCP to sign off on it, and my PCP isn't signing off on anyone who doesn't roll into the emergency room on a gurney.

b_b  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Real fuckin shame, because that's one of the few interventions that might actually do something. Serology just isn't that hard. Too bad Biden's plan isn't up and running yet.

kleinbl00  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

His plan is "clap if you believe in fairies" so I mean... It's about as up'n'running as you can expect.

Other than that awesome part about the Teamsters and OSHA coming together to figure out what PPE is appropriate for the world.

b_b  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hope you could sense the sarcasm

kleinbl00  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I hope you could sense my participation.

b_b  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was like 90% sure, so I guess I'll give myself an A-