The Good News Thread

[Hastur]

I read reports of 50-80% mortality rates for patients put on ventilators. Apparently Trump was briefed on this as well.

http://adam.curry.com/enc/1586117654.89 ... opener.mp3

[C-Mag]

Potential Good News, we've learned a lot about Coronavirus in the last several days.

The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
http://web.archive.org/web/202004050614 ... 182386efcb

Sounds bad man.

That was good Hastur and his take mirrors what is being said in the article. The disease disrupts your bloods ability to carry oxygen, and that causes massive organ failure and death.

So far, our 21st C medicine has been effectively bloodletting and leaches. Hopefully we can shift treatment.

[TheReal_ND]

I read reports of 50-80% mortality rates for patients put on ventilators. Apparently Trump was briefed on this as well.

http://adam.curry.com/enc/1586117654.89 ... opener.mp3

After I think like a week it causes brain damage and some people are on them for three weeks with covid

[Smitty-48]

Good news

The clouds have completely broken up and the sunshine with blue skies are in effect

[Smitty-48]

All sunshine & blue skies now

Not a cloud in sight

[StCapps]

[Smitty-48]

[StCapps]

[Montegriffo]

[Smitty-48]

It's going to be an absolutely glorious sunset over the Smitty Masters Estate

Grilling on the deck with Dorothy now

Perfectly clear blue skies warm sunshine and cool breezes

The sun has commenced its decent, four fingers above the treeline now

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them