Atrocious Joe posted:

instead of the backwards bourgeois and feudal elements that the Chinese Cultural Revolution targeted, the West is purging itself of anyone who believes we live in a society. The only reality is your personal freedom, and that freedom is expressed through the purchase of consumer goods.

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Nampa newborn with COVID-19 fighting for her life in the hospital

When things took a turn for the worse this week, seven-week-old Ostara Clure was rushed from Boise to Salt Lake City to receive ECMO treatment.

BOISE, Idaho — Seven-week-old Ostara Clure was one of at least 20 kids hospitalized with COVID-19 in Idaho as of Monday.
The infant from Nampa was fighting for her life at St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Boise, but things took a turn for the worse and she was rushed to Salt Lake City on Wednesday.

She needs extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a treatment giving COVID-19 patients on the brink of death, the best chance of survival.

Ostara suffered a Code Blue and her oxygen tanked Thursday morning. As of Thursday evening, she was stable.
Two days earlier, from their hospital room in St. Luke's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Ostara's mother Carli Valentine felt exhausted and defeated.

"Right now she's kind of going off the walls and it gets more and more traumatizing," Valentine said over Zoom. "We're just trying to let her get better but things have been going up and down."

She cannot believe her baby girl's life started out this way.

"There's no connecting, there's no enjoyable moments," Valentine said. "[She's] just a small baby and she shows us how hard she's fighting but it's hard to watch and be here every day and see how hard she has to fight."

On Jan. 20, their life spun into chaos. Ostara was diagnosed with both COVID-19 and pneumonia. At six-and-a-half weeks old, she woke up struggling to breathe.

They took her to the doctor, where Ostara was then rushed to the emergency room with a spiking heart rate.

"Trying to get an IV in, trying to get a bunch of blood tests done and all I could do is sit there and cry. I couldn't breathe, I just cried," Valentine said.

Valentine and Ostara's dad Ashton have stayed in the baby's hospital room around the clock for a week, away from their other two little ones.

"Before, I didn't believe in the whole COVID. I didn't do the masks, didn't do anything and now it's affected my daughter, my kids. The other two came up positive. It's affected all of our family around us," Valentine said. "It changes all our beliefs about it and how scary it really is. Because we're now worried about every single person in our family while we're also worried about our daughter who's fighting for her life with it."

Ostara is unable to breathe on her own. Her heart, lungs and hydration levels are so bad she was put on oxygen and IV fluids.

St. Luke's Children's System Medical Director Dr. Kenny Bramwell said Ostara is one of the worst COVID patients they have seen.
Bramwell said her condition deteriorated over the first few days on the pediatric floor, so she was moved to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

There, he said Ostara continued to get worse despite maximal therapies and different types of ventilators.

That is when her PICU team decided to transfer her to Salt Lake, where she could get on a cardio-pulmonary bypass system called ECMO.
Bramwell said Boise is not a big enough city to have this advanced COVID treatment for kids.

"This is certainly a very heroic measure for a very sick two-month-old child and I'm hopeful that it will be of help," Bramwell added.

In line with national trends, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare data shows more Idaho kids are in the hospital now than at any other time during the pandemic. It is fueled by the Omicron variant surge.

Bramwell said week after week the hospital is seeing infants as young as two weeks old, up to 17-year-olds, severely ill with COVID.

While children make up a small percentage of all COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals nationwide, Bramwell said we cannot just focus on those numbers.

Children can get multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) weeks after infection, suffer from debilitating long-COVID, or spread the virus to vulnerable family members.

Bramwell said the absolute best protection is to get vaccinated - especially because our youngest cannot yet.

"COVID, we feel, at almost all ages is largely preventable with community and families being vaccinated," Bramwell said. "In many cases it's incumbent on parents, siblings and grandparents to do all they can to protect helpless infants."

"It's real, it's life changing," Valentine said. "Definitely be careful; do the hand-washing, wear face masks. Do whatever you need to do to protect yourself."

"I don't think you can choose to not get this anymore. I think you can only choose how ready you are for when it hits you," Bramwell added.

Valentine and her family ask everyone to keep their little girl in their prayers as she continues to fight for her life.

They also started this GoFundMe to help with rent, food and gas while they are in the hospital. Valentine and Ashton cannot work or afford these climbing medical bills.

If Ostara gets out, they will have an extremely long road of recovery ahead.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Speaking of elastomeric respirators do we have any Advantage crew in here? Can anyone recommend a model vs the Secure Click? I don't care about not having an exhalation valve since no one is going to listen to me when I tell them my big gently caress off mask doesn't have one anyway, so I might as well have one for comfort.

hekaton posted:

does anyone know if theres been any papers about long covid and the hygiene hypothesis? i've only seen them related to acute COVID symptoms where not much was found significantly, though there are obviously tons of confounding factors there

essentially, the hygiene hypothesis relates the rise in autoimmune disorders in the developed world to the decline in childhood infections as well as lower levels of parasitic infections, with the idea being that insufficient infection/stress on the immune system leads to dysregulation, especially of the systems that downregulate your immune responses. almost as if your body, with no external enemies to fight, turns on itself. i believe theres also been some benefits seen with introducing harmless parasites to combat allergies/asthma, helminth therapy, but im not super well versed in the subject. allergies are caused by the anti-parasite system gone haywire so i think the connection is strongest there

im basically curious as to whether long covid, which seems to be a dysregulated immune system issue, could also be affected by exposure to pathogens in general, and therefore you'd expect to see higher prevalence of long covid in the same areas you see higher autoimmune disease and lower overall pathogen/parasite burden

dunno if that means you can just get yourself riddled with worms to become indestructible but it'd be interesting to look into

hekaton posted:

i believe theres also been some benefits seen with introducing harmless parasites to combat allergies/asthma, helminth therapy,

Pingui posted:

(..)

As compared to Danish direct COVID deaths in the same period:

genericnick posted:

Looking forward, not backwards.

Glumwheels posted:

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/h...ba-76a801746e9d

Suddenly COVID is real when your newborn is dying from it. loving chuds

T-Paine posted:

Nothing is real until it impacts me personally

Lacrosse posted:

just let everyone take off their masks and poo poo all their intestines out with ivermectin and drink all their piss I don't give a gently caress

the faster these brunchers become permanently crippled by long covid the faster I don't have to listen to them whine anymore. It's a free country and we should let all these goddamn idiots live their lovely loving lives for however long or short that may be. Let these people get their cheeseburger lungs because they needed to watch spooderman in the theater, let them never be able to walk up a flight of stairs without an oxygen tank because they needed to have their Applebee's, let them stroke out on the shitter because they needed to spend 10 hours in line at Disney for a stupid goddamn popcorn bucket. Accelerationism is the way; the faster this gets worse the faster it gets better. We should be thanking all these European countries for dropping all their precautions, now we get to see omicron's TRUE power

I know this sounds cold and I'm sorry for all the immunocompromised people who are suffering right now, I'm one of them so I know how it feels, but if this is the way it's going to be then I'm going to revel in the destruction of this lovely world I've been forced to live in. Bring it on so that the future maybe has a chance at being better because the status quo will never change until it burns the gently caress down

I'm ready to watch this world end. We don't need no water, let the mother fucker burn.

BURN MOTHERFUCKER

hekaton posted:

does anyone know if theres been any papers about long covid and the hygiene hypothesis? i've only seen them related to acute COVID symptoms where not much was found significantly, though there are obviously tons of confounding factors there

essentially, the hygiene hypothesis relates the rise in autoimmune disorders in the developed world to the decline in childhood infections as well as lower levels of parasitic infections, with the idea being that insufficient infection/stress on the immune system leads to dysregulation, especially of the systems that downregulate your immune responses. almost as if your body, with no external enemies to fight, turns on itself. i believe theres also been some benefits seen with introducing harmless parasites to combat allergies/asthma, helminth therapy, but im not super well versed in the subject. allergies are caused by the anti-parasite system gone haywire so i think the connection is strongest there

im basically curious as to whether long covid, which seems to be a dysregulated immune system issue, could also be affected by exposure to pathogens in general, and therefore you'd expect to see higher prevalence of long covid in the same areas you see higher autoimmune disease and lower overall pathogen/parasite burden

dunno if that means you can just get yourself riddled with worms to become indestructible but it'd be interesting to look into

Virgil Vox posted:

Goa Tse-tung posted:

I usually lurk here but this was a record scratch moment for me.

edit not only the name but because Phage therapy is something I've been looking into for work (its the reverse where intentional viruses destroy bacteria)

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

My poo poo's in order and I'm ready to go and this poo poo is so much better than adjusting an N95 or a KN95 that I'm not sure why I didn't do this months ago.

Zurtilik posted:

Am I full of worms!?

Hashy posted:

I don't remember the thread picking up on this and it can't hurt to post it again


https://mobile.twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1486070928060600323

Twerk from Home posted:

Worms are extremely effective immunosuppressants, they have evolved to shut down the hosts immune system just the right amount so that the worms can live in you forever without making you so sick that you die.

However, immunosuppression makes people more likely to die of COVID. For what it's worth, it looks like if you have worms and get COVID, treating your worm infection is a good idea to help your odds. There's been a couple of studies of reasonable quality that show Ivermectin helps with COVID in countries that have high worm infection rates, that all fail to replicate in countries without worms. About 2.5 billion humans are full of worms right now.

Zurtilik posted:

Am I full of worms!?

Zurtilik posted:

Am I full of worms!?

mawarannahr posted:

I got the secure click and I didn’t like it at all, so it sits on the shelf as backup for the future. too heavy. what’s a 3m model that isn’t like that?

Lovelyn posted:

Reminds me of a recent patient I had. Came in for RLQ pain, turns out it was his appendix! He refuses surgery because he doesn't trust doctors (not sure why he came in), refused a covid swab because he didn't want his personal information sent to Biden who would then use it for experiments.

Then his appendix ruptures, and it's even more of a medical emergency. We need to get him to surgery to get his appendix out, and all surgeries require a covid swab. He declines repeatedly. We finally manage to get the test waived (we'd just presume positive and treat him as such), and he still declines. He agrees to antibiotics, even though he's "allergic to all of them." Then declines antibiotics. He still refuses surgery. Then agrees to surgery if it can wait till Monday.

Anyway he coded a couple times and sustained anoxic brain damage, is now septic and on a vent (and confirmed covid positive!)

Zurtilik posted:

Europeanized Killer Humans!

mawarannahr posted:

I got the secure click and I didn’t like it at all, so it sits on the shelf as backup for the future. too heavy. what’s a 3m model that isn’t like that?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

For real, though, is there an efficacy difference between the way I had the filters in the first pic vs swept back?

Lovelyn posted:

Reminds me of a recent patient I had. Came in for RLQ pain, turns out it was his appendix! He refuses surgery because he doesn't trust doctors (not sure why he came in), refused a covid swab because he didn't want his personal information sent to Biden who would then use it for experiments.

Then his appendix ruptures, and it's even more of a medical emergency. We need to get him to surgery to get his appendix out, and all surgeries require a covid swab. He declines repeatedly. We finally manage to get the test waived (we'd just presume positive and treat him as such), and he still declines. He agrees to antibiotics, even though he's "allergic to all of them." Then declines antibiotics. He still refuses surgery. Then agrees to surgery if it can wait till Monday.

Anyway he coded a couple times and sustained anoxic brain damage, is now septic and on a vent (and confirmed covid positive!)

Real Mean Queen posted:

I can’t tell if this is a bit or not, but I could see the downward position making poo poo like seatbelts, backpacks, and looking at your phone a lot more unpleasant than they need to be.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

i fixed it, i fixed it

Zurtilik posted:

Can't believe PFC wore his filters wrong. He should be threadbanned.

Oglethorpe posted:

from MSA's product literature:

Oglethorpe posted:

from MSA's product literature: