The fear of transmission is the problem, not Covid19, which can be treated: "We were intubating sick patients very early. Not for the patients’ benefit, but in order to control the epidemic & to save other patients,” Dr. Iwashyna said “That felt awful.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-retreat-from-early-covid-treatment-and-return-to-basics-11608491436?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/TzK0SeBSgY

"As a safety precaution, doctors and hospitals limited the access of health-care workers to coronavirus patients on ventilators, giving them fewer opportunities to check on them. That meant patients required more powerful sedatives to keep them from pulling out throat tubes."

"Sedation increases risk for delirium, research suggests, and delirium increases the likelihood of long-term confusion and death.

Subsequent research found the alternative devices"..NO IT WAS PRONING NOT MORE DEVICES!

ALMOST ONE THIRD OF FIRST WAVE OF DEATHS WAS DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE VENTILATOR USE WITH ASSOCIATED HIGH SEDATION: "Overall, survival for Covid-19 patients increased 28% from April to September at HCA hospitals."

"Before the pandemic, between about 30% to more than 40% of ventilator patients died, according to research. Numbers were sharply higher in Wuhan, China. As the pandemic grew, hospitals in the U.S. reported death rates in some cases of about 50% for ventilated Covid-19 patients."

"One study of three New York City hospitals found the death rate for all Covid-19 patients dropped to 7.6% from 25.6% between March and August."

"the risks of intensive-care treatment..include neurological damage and physical disability. Overextended doctors may again use heavy sedation if ICU teams can’t closely monitor ventilated patients, Dr. Ely said." NO, JUST NO. THAT IS MURDER.

"Less sedation combined with other measures also shortens hospital stays and improves survival, research shows. Among those measures: halting intravenous drugs for portions of each day to see if they are still needed, attempting daily to remove patients from ventilators"

"Keeping patients moving. Contact with family also plays a significant role in recovery, research shows."

"Christopher Thomas, a physician and assistant professor of clinical medicine and pulmonary and critical care with Louisiana State University Health, used heavy sedation on patients for a few weeks in the spring. It wasn’t his normal practice."

“It felt like you were watching—being forced to watch—patients not get better,” [WATCH THEM BEING KILLED BY INVASIVE VENTILATION+SEDATION] Dr. Thomas said. He soon reverted to lighter sedation."

TRANSMISSION FEAR IS THE KILLER: "Baton Rouge General Hospital had also prohibited family visits "to reduce contagion" In August, doctors decided it would be better to allow families to visit delirious patients to help with recovery the usual practice before the pandemic"

CHINA-WHO guidance thread: https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1341100180721070082?s=19