From Dr. Joseph Mercola
Since COVID-19 first entered the scene, change of concepts has mainly been outlawed. By sharing my views and people from numerous consultants all through the pandemic on COVID remedies and the experimental COVID jabs, I turned a essential goal of the White House, the political institution and the worldwide cabal.
Propaganda and pervasive censorship have been deployed to grab management over each a part of your life, together with your well being, funds and meals provide. The main media are key gamers and have been instrumental in creating and fueling worry.
I’m republishing this text in its authentic type as a way to see how the development unfolded.
Originally revealed: May 6, 2020
In latest weeks, a number of docs and revealed papers have famous that COVID-19 sufferers who’re placed on ventilators have an elevated danger of dying.1 April 9, 2020, Business Insider reported2 that 80% of COVID-19 sufferers in New York City who’re positioned on ventilators die, inflicting some docs to query their use.
According to The Associated Press,3 “Similar reports have emerged from China and the United Kingdom. One U.K. report put the figure at 66%. A very small study in Wuhan … said 86% died.”
Updated New York City Statistics
An April 22, 2020, examine revealed in JAMA describing the outcomes for five,700 sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19 within the New York City space reported:4
“Mortality rates for those who received mechanical ventilation in the 18-to-65 and older-than-65 age groups were 76.4% and 97.2%, respectively. Mortality rates for those in the 18-to-65 and older-than-65 age groups who did not receive mechanical ventilation were 19.8% and 26.6%, respectively. There were no deaths in the younger-than-18 age group.”
These numbers had been amended shortly thereafter, although. April 26, 2020, CNN Health reported5 that a median of 24.5% of sufferers positioned on ventilators died, in comparison with about 20% of those that weren’t ventilated.
Karina Davidson, senior vice chairman of analysis at Northwell Health, informed CNN her crew had determined to “clarify the wording of the report,” and that the figures are being up to date to replicate “what number of [patients] we all know have had an final result and what number of stay within the hospital.” CNN defined:6
“The original report in JAMA stated that 12% of patients required ventilation and of them 88% died — but those numbers only represented a minority of patients whose outcome was known, not the entire body of patients. The updated numbers include all of the patients, including those who remained in the hospital at the time the data was gathered on April 4.”
In an April 8, 2020, article, STAT News reported:7
“What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling remark about COVID-19: Many sufferers have blood oxygen ranges so low they need to be useless. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their brains present no indicators of blinking off from lack of oxygen.
That is making vital care physicians suspect that blood ranges of oxygen, which for many years have pushed choices about respiratory assist for sufferers with pneumonia and acute respiratory misery, is perhaps deceptive them about find out how to take care of these with COVID-19.
In specific, an increasing number of are involved about the usage of intubation and mechanical ventilators. They argue that extra sufferers might obtain less complicated, noninvasive respiratory assist, such because the respiratory masks utilized in sleep apnea, a minimum of to start out with and possibly at some stage in the sickness.”
Oxygen Is Needed however Ventilation May Be Inadvisable
Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell, whose video is featured on the prime of this text, has famous their sufferers’ signs have extra in frequent with altitude illness than pneumonia.8 Similarly, a latest paper9 by Drs. Luciano Gattinone and John Marini describes two several types of COVID-19 displays, which they confer with as Type L and Type H.
While one advantages from mechanical air flow, the opposite doesn’t. Dr. Roger Seheult discusses this paper, in addition to the comparability of COVID-19 to excessive altitude pulmonary edema or HAPE, within the MedCram video above.
In the ultimate evaluation, it could end up that ventilators are inappropriate for a majority of sufferers, and docs at UChicago Medicine report10 “truly remarkable” outcomes utilizing high-flow nasal cannulas in lieu of ventilators. As famous in a press launch:11
“High-flow nasal cannulas, or HFNCs, are non-invasive nasal prongs that sit under the nostrils and blow giant volumes of heat, humidified oxygen into the nostril and lungs.
A crew from UChicago Medicine’s emergency room took 24 COVID-19 sufferers who had been in respiratory misery and gave them HFNCs as a substitute of placing them on ventilators. The sufferers all fared extraordinarily effectively, and solely considered one of them required intubation after 10 days …
The HFNCs are sometimes mixed with susceptible positioning, a method the place sufferers lay on their stomachs to help respiratory. Together, they’ve helped UChicago Medicine docs keep away from dozens of intubations and have decreased the possibilities of dangerous outcomes for COVID-19 sufferers, stated Thomas Spiegel, MD, Medical Director of UChicago Medicine’s Emergency Department.
‘The proning and the high-flow nasal cannulas combined have brought patient oxygen levels from around 40% to 80% and 90%, so it’s been fascinating and great to see,’ Spiegel stated …
‘Avoiding intubation is key,’ Spiegel stated. ‘Most of our colleagues around the city are not doing this, but I sure wish other ERs would take a look at this technique closely.’”
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Technique
Another much less obtainable and extra sophisticated therapy technique that’s exhibiting promise is called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO. The system entails a posh circuit of tubes, filters and pumps that oxygenate the affected person’s blood and take away waste merchandise outdoors the physique earlier than pumping it again into circulation.
Guidance12 for the usage of ECMO in COVID-19 therapy was revealed March 30, 2020, within the ASAIO Journal. As a normal rule, ECMO is advisable for comparatively younger sufferers with few comorbidities who’re failing to answer ventilator therapy. According to an April 24, 2020 press launch by the University of Michigan:13
“As of April 21 … greater than 470 sufferers with suspected or confirmed circumstances of COVID-19 have been handled on the ECMO facilities which might be sharing their information. Most had been males of their 40s and early 50s. Nearly half had weight problems and one-fifth had diabetes.
Most of these positioned on ECMO for COVID-19 are nonetheless on the therapy, which might take weeks to permit the physique to get better sufficient for the affected person to operate on their very own. Every second of that point, sufferers have to be beneath the care of groups of educated nurses, respiratory therapists, technicians and physicians …
Patients should get evaluated by an ECMO middle and transferred earlier than their situation worsens an excessive amount of. They shouldn’t have been on a ventilator greater than seven days earlier than beginning ECMO, which implies that they need to be thought of for ECMO quickly after the choice to intubate them is made.
‘Despite the substantial resources required to care for patients on ECMO, we believe this is an appropriate strategy for selected patients that are otherwise at imminent risk of death,’ says Jonathan Haft, M.D., medical director of U-M’s ECMO program.”
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Sadly lacking from the traditional dialog is the usage of hyperbaric oxygen remedy (HBOT) which I consider is perhaps a superb therapy methodology. As famous by Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, in “A Review of Helpful Antiviral Strategies”:
“Making the oxygen obtainable in a manner that is applicable to the severity of the affected person is the reply. We must keep in mind that our physique is singularly good at taking in oxygen or we would not be right here. And our lungs have an enormous quantity of absorptive house. I imply, that is what they do. It’s simply a rare system that we have now.
Oxygen goes in by diffusion. You do not push it in; the physique sucks it in as a result of you probably have extra oxygen outdoors than you do inside, it simply goes by means of. All you do is give a whole lot of absorptive floor. And should you flattened out all of the little alveoli within the lungs, you’d have an unlimited space …
So, by offering the oxygen after which see if the physique will take it up, you’ve got made step one. That may be achieved preventively by contemporary air and train and going out and taking part in …
If someone wants extra oxygen, and also you wish to give them a bit of strain, if that makes the affected person higher, you then do it. But the concept that you have to ram this oxygen like a supercharger on a Mustang is, I feel, a bit of bit, shall we embrace, trade pleasant …
[The alveoli] are tiny, tiny little sacks. They have among the thinnest little membranes you’ve got ever seen. Look at them beneath a microscope. They’re very delicate. So, the very last thing you wish to do is add harm to insult.”
Mechanical air flow can simply injury the lungs for the truth that it’s pushing air into the lungs with drive. During HBOT, however, you’re merely respiratory air or oxygen in a pressurized chamber, which permits your physique to soak up a better proportion of oxygen.
There’s no airflow being pressured immediately into the lungs. HBOT additionally improves mitochondrial operate, helps with detoxing, inhibits and controls irritation and optimizes your physique’s innate therapeutic capability. You can study extra about this in “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an Adjunct Healing Modality.”
HBOT Trials for COVID-19
We could ultimately hear extra about this, nonetheless, as NYU Langone Health is at the moment recruiting COVID-19 sufferers for a examine utilizing HBOT. The examine was posted April 2, 2020. As detailed on MedicalTrials.gov:14
“This is a single middle potential pilot cohort examine to guage the security and efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen remedy (HBOT) as an emergency investigational machine for treating sufferers with a novel coronavirus, illness, COVID-19 …
The affected person will obtain 90 minutes of hyperbaric oxygen at 2.0 ATA with or with out air breaks per the hyperbaric doctor. Upon completion of the therapy the affected person will then return to the medical unit and proceed all normal of care …
After the intervention portion of this examine, a chart evaluation will likely be carried out to match the outcomes of intervention sufferers versus sufferers who obtained normal of care.”
Chinese docs additionally report “promising results” after treating 5 COVID-19 sufferers with HBOT. Two had been in vital situation and 5 had been extreme. As reported by the International Hyperbarics Association:15
“Hyperbaric oxygen was added to the present complete remedies being carried out on the hospital for COVID-19 affected sufferers, with a dose of 90-120 minutes at therapy pressures of 1.4 to 1 fi.ATA.
The outcomes had been very encouraging as these 5 sufferers obtained vital therapeutic advantages, together with speedy reduction of signs after the primary session.
The rationale for including this process is to assist fight the progressive hypoxemia (low blood oxygen ranges) that COVID-19 could cause. Hyperbaric oxygen has the power so as to add a considerable provide of additional oxygen into the bloodstream …”
Hospitals Are Major Transmission Sites of SARS-CoV-2
In this video, taped April 17, 2020, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses outcomes from three preliminary research. Importantly, he factors out that nosocomial infections — infections that happen in hospital settings — seem like half and parcel of why the COVID-19 mortality price is a lot larger in sure areas, resembling Italy, Spain and the New York metropolitan space.
A standard denominator between these areas is an enormous variety of hospital personnel who’re contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 and unfold it to sufferers who’re already in an immune-compromised state.
“Hospitals are the worst place to fight the battle with COVID-19,” he says. “We should have done our best to keep people away from the hospitals if they had COVID-19 symptoms, unless they had really severe symptoms.”
In essence, by having so many individuals unnecessarily going to the hospital out of worry, a hospital-chain of infectious transmission was allowed to develop. Many might merely have been handled at dwelling.
These findings spotlight the necessity for very stringent an infection management measures in hospitals, to keep away from transmission from asymptomatic personnel to sufferers. They additionally spotlight the necessity to extra rigorously assess your want for medical care.
Ioannidis stresses that individuals experiencing gentle to average signs of COVID-19 shouldn’t rush to the hospital, as they merely improve the danger of infectious transmission to personnel and different extra susceptible sufferers.
He additionally cites information exhibiting hospital personnel have an estimated 0.3% probability of dying from COVID-19, which is considerably decrease than the three.5% initially cited by the World Health Organization. He additionally factors out that this and different information level to COVID-19 having a fatality price very near that of seasonal influenza.
This, he says, is sweet information for hospital personnel who’ve been working beneath very distressing situations, many fearing for his or her lives. As it seems, such fears seem like vastly exaggerated and uncalled for.
Sepsis Is a Common Complication in COVID-19
While treating gentle to average signs at dwelling could also be advisable, it’s essential to remain vigilant to indicators of sepsis.16 If COVID-19 signs worsen and indicators of sepsis develop — described in “Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of Sepsis” — fast medical care is required.
Unless promptly identified and handled, sepsis can quickly progress to multiple-organ failure and dying. Sepsis is accountable for 20% of deaths worldwide every year, and the cytokine storm response related to sepsis additionally seems to be a main manner by which COVID-19 claims the lives of those that are immunocompromised and/or aged.
According to a March 11, 2020, paper17 in The Lancet, 59% of the 191 Chinese COVID-19 sufferers within the examine developed sepsis, and sepsis was current in 100% of those that died. It was probably the most generally noticed complication, adopted by respiratory failure, ARDS and coronary heart failure.
You can study extra about sepsis and its therapy in “Melatonin for Sepsis,” “Vitamin C Lowers Mortality in Severe Sepsis” and “Vitamin C Works for Sepsis. Will It Work for Coronavirus?“
