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https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients

>“[W]e deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it’s probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and it’s a lot more frightening. I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all… what happens to a lot of these patients [is, t]hey suddenly become unresponsive or go into respiratory failure… the lungs are filled with fluid… With our coronavirus patients, once they’re on ventilators, most need about the highest settings that we can do… [It] is nearly as high as I’ve ever seen. The level we’re at means we are running out of options. I’ve never seen a microorganism or an infectious process cause such acute damage to the lungs so rapidly.”

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>“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him

>They are essentially drowning in their own blood and fluids because their lungs are so full… Before this, [w]e were all joking: I want to get the coronavirus because then I get a paid vacation from work. And once I saw these patients with it, I was like, Holy shit, I do not want to catch this and I don’t want anyone I know to catch this.

>> No.17988882

>>17988866
people die from lung failure from the flu all the time anon.

>> No.17988908

>>17988882
What hospital do you work at?

>> No.17988971

>propublica

>> No.17989081

0k guys don't laugh but my dad unironically works for the university and he has former Chinese students in China sending him shit about how bad this thing fucks up your lungs. they're saying that even if you received, it leaves you with permanent lung damage. they are telling him to warmest a mask whenever he goes out & were even offering to send him some. I wish I was joking cause I smoke weed
>inb4 it's just the flu bro

>> No.17989089

>>17988866
You know how meteorologists lose their mind when there's a possible event and they get 5 minutes of fame?
Yea, that's the medical industry right now.
>Look at us. We're super important and relevant. Be scared. We're your God now.
Give it a month. Nobody does from a flu in May.
https://youtu.be/G7Ob3J5qwyA

>> No.17989097

>>17989081
*even if you recover

>> No.17989178

I've got it for a couple days now. Feels pretty good like a mild cold. Had a little trouble breathing the first day, but all gone now.

>> No.17989256

>>17988882
Can you explain to me what is happening in Italy then? Are they pretending to be in a dire situation? Did they made 10,000 med students skip their finals and get into the hospitals just for laughs?

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>>17988866
>not just boomers

Yes it is.

>> No.17989298

>>17988866
>duuhhhhh, time to amp up the fear, when everybody is already scared shitless

What good does it do to publish shit like this right now?

"Extreme statistical outliers are getting fucked up bad... WILL YOU BE ONE OF THEM??!?!"

Fearmongers need to hang.

>> No.17989332

>>17989178
how do you know did you get tested? if so post results

>> No.17989347

>>17988866
TL;DR: It's just the flu bro

>> No.17989355

>>17989265
The weirs thing is I have heard reports like the OP from many sources, but still the official statistics say that for young adults it is almost harmless.

Who's lying to me?

>> No.17989389

>>17989265
Boomers are dying but young people are severly affected too.

>> No.17989415

>>17989355
>Who's lying to me?
probably the ones with anecdotal evidence and no numbers to back their argument

>> No.17989417

>>17989355
>I have heard reports like the OP from many sources, but still the official statistics say that for young adults it is almost harmless.
There's a big scare push going on.

Even in Bergamo, the posterchild for corona death, the virus only accounts for thirty percent of the additional deaths compared to last year.

>>17989389
Same with flu.
A relative of mine lost a teenager to flu-induced pneumonia last year.

>> No.17989427

>>17989355
Reports rely on anecdotal cases that are freak incidents that seem more numerous than they're because nobody will report an 80 year old man with diabetes dying of it in news.