The Wall Street Journal interviewed hospital staff on the front lines of the fight against Covid.
The report centers on the way doctors and medical personnel handled the care of the first wave of Covid positive patients versus the way doctors are now treating them. The report says, “doctors are treating a new flood of critically ill coronavirus patients with treatments from before the pandemic, to keep more patients alive and send them home sooner.”
First, you should note the original way – and the current way – most Covid positive patients are handled.
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You test positive for Covid and are told to immediately go home and quarantine for 14 days. During the 14 day quarantine, if you experience serious symptoms, you are then allowed to get medical care. Medical care normally consisted of sedatives and ventilators until you either recovered or died.
The report says that “last spring, with less known about the disease, doctors often pre-emptively put patients on ventilators or gave powerful sedatives largely abandoned in recent years.” “The aim,” they say, was not because this was best practice for respiratory illnesses but because it was “to save the seriously ill and protect hospital staff from Covid-19.”
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A Nurse Practioner sounded the alarm on the dangerous use of ventilators back in May but was censored and ignored by the typical big machine goons.
“A frontline nurse working in New York on coronavirus patients claims the city is killing sufferers by putting them on ventilators.
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‘It’s a horror movie,’ she said through a friend. ‘Not because of the disease, but the way it is being handled.’
And she said relatives of the sick need to make it clear as soon as a person is taken to the hospital that they do not want them hooked up to the breathing machines.”
But don’t worry, the report wants you to know that “now hospital treatment for the most critically ill looks more like it did before the pandemic.”
“Doctors hold off longer before placing patients on ventilators,” the Wall Street Journal report says, almost as if the reader should be thanking these doctors for no longer killing patients for their own protection.
The doctors are giving “patients get less powerful sedatives, with doctors checking more frequently to see if they can halt the drugs entirely and dialing back how much air ventilators push into patients’ lungs with each breath.”
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“As a safety precaution, doctors and hospitals limited the access of healthcare workers to coronavirus patients on ventilators, giving them fewer opportunities to check on them,” which led to the increase in unnecessary death. How low would the numbers really have been if doctors hadn’t abandoned their oath to do-no-harm?
“As the pandemic grew, hospitals in the U.S. reported death rates in some cases of about 50% for ventilated Covid-19 patients,” the report states. When studies showed that “alternative devices to ventilators, such as delivering oxygen through nasal tubes, weren’t as risky to caretakers as believed” shortened hospital stays and improved survival rates resulted for many Covid positive patients.
Doctors and hospital administration instructed their staff to leave sedated patients by themselves for hours because they were worried about the spread of Covid.
Many of those patients might have survived if even the basic standard of care was given.
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