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Tallysmom - the piece I quoted was
from an email which was doing the rounds, as I said in that post. There is no link I can link to, so I have to quote it all. I did search at the University of Toronto website for a similar discussion or article but as I said in a subsequent post, I was unable to find one.
With that said, I hope you will not mind in the interests of public information, if I post the same piece again from an email and not online. I hope this is extenuating circumstances.
As I said before, I do not know if this is correct information or not, so I throw it out there for discussion.
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WHAT DOCTORS HAVE LEARNED ABOUT COVID-19
A professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto sent this clearly worded
update to his family. 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.
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 prevent clotting) as a protocol in treatment regimens in October 2020.
2. Previously patients used to drop dead on the road or even before
reaching a hospital due to reduced oxygen in their blood.
This called 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 so we were late
in getting sick patients to 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 doctors time to correct the oxygen deficiency in the blood
and there is a better survival chance in October 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 ANTIVIRALS 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 is knowledge that is available in October 2020... not in February 2020.
4. Many Covid-19 patients die not just because of the virus but also
due to the patient's own immune system responding in an exaggerated
manner called CYTOKINE STORM.
This stormy immune response not only kills the virus but also can kill
the patients. In February 2020 we didn't know how to prevent it from happening.
Now in October 2020, we know that 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 become 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 chemical known as Alpha Defensin produced by the patient's White
blood cells can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs
and this can be treated with Colchicine which has been 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
October 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 better chance at survival than one who got infected early.
Let's continue to follow precautions, wear masks and practice social
distancing.
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