To have enough ventilators was the stated reason for the lockdown.
Are Ventilators for COVID-19 Doing More Harm than Good?
4/13/20
Here is something really interesting about the use of ventilators for COVID-19. You’re going to want to check this out.
DATA:
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospi…
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news…
Timestamps
0:07 What is a ventilator?
0:19 Coronavirus and ventilators
1:04 Report on ventilator dangers
4:13 Is COVID-19 actually like pneumonia or ARDS?
5:16 How does COVID-19 affect the lungs?
7:09 Hydroxychloroquine
10:18 Zinc
Today we’re going to talk about the coronavirus and ventilators. Could ventilators for COVID-19 do more harm than good?
A ventilator is a machine that breathes for you. It uses forced air and oxygen. New York officials have said that at least 80% of COVID-19 patients in the city who were on a ventilator died.
If someone becomes critically ill with COVID-19, they are typically sedated and put on a ventilator. This is because this coronavirus targets the lungs, and it becomes more and more difficult to breathe. But, the problem could be that in severe cases, the lung is so fragile that adding more pressure to the lung could create more damage to the lung.
It could be that this condition is less like pneumonia or ARDS and is more like high altitude sickness. It’s possible that the pressure that the ventilators are giving in this situation is too high. One doctor who is treating patients with COVID-19 in New York believes that the pressure in the ventilators used for COVID-19 needs to be turned down, and the oxygen needs to be increased.
New research regarding COVID-19 suggests that this coronavirus attacks hemoglobin. The red blood cell carries oxygen in the form of hemoglobin. If the patient loses the iron in the heme, they won’t be able to carry oxygen. The patient will starve of oxygen.
The other problem is that now the free iron can leak through the body going into the lung and creating a severe oxidation reaction.
Hydroxychloroquine:
• Could block hemoglobin catabolism
• Can suppress the innate immune system
• It has been used for malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis
*Hydroxychloroquine may work best when combined with zinc.
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