The Eastern Virginia Medical School's Dr. Paul Marik, MD, has published his management protocol for COVID-19 based on the evidence collected so far in treating this disease's victims.
Read between the lines of the rationale presented starting on page 11. Nearly all of the COVID-19 deaths were caused by the treatment protocols.
The first problem was that there was no vitamin/drug therapy for early stages of infection. This is understandable when these things were unknown, but railing against the use of HCQ, citing a lack of randomized clinical trials, as a petty rebuke to President Trump is unforgivable.
The second problem was that WHO, CDC, and ATS (American Thoracic Society) wrongly recommended against using corticosteroids. This recommendation makes no sense in light of the facts of the progression of COVID-19, and doctors who followed it sat and watched their patients die of spreading organ failure.
The third problem was the high blood oxygen threshold for triggering intubation. Prematurely intubating patients with COVID-19 causes ARDS and accelerates the progression of the disease.
How much less fatal will this novel coronavirus be once the treatment protocols are fixed so that they fight COVID-19 instead of advancing its progression?
Can that lower fatality rate justify the economic damage and violations of individual rights necessary to limit its spread?
"but but muh 80,000 dead people"
What percentage of whatever number will be settled upon were killed by the improper treatment protocols?
What will that leave as the real number attributable to COVID-19?
Take medical incompetence out of the picture, and the novel coronavirus fatality count drops below that of even a mild flu season.
Thanks for sharing!
Keep a hardcopy of this handy in case you or any of yours are afflicted with the disease, and please spread this around.
The discussions over testing, tracing, lockdowns, vaccines, and containing the spread are meaningless if the disease is nowhere near as lethal as the media and medical mistakes have deceived us into believing.
So that user who posted about a month or so ago was right. He had said a friend of his is a doctor or nurse in NYC who claimed that ventilators were killing patients. We were skeptical of it, including myself. Turns out it was good Intel.
You cannot blame a doctor for following protocol until the patient dies the first one, two, or three times, but how many patients do they need to kill before somebody steps back and asks why the recipe is not working?
The biggest lesson from all of this is something that I learned more than thirty years ago. Medical Doctors are people, too. Across the profession there are some really brilliant geniuses, a hopefully large percentage of workhorses who can be counted on to do their very best, and an unfortunately possibly larger percentage of magical thinkers who squeaked by, are in it for the paycheck, and know their asses are covered so long as they tread the well beaten path.