Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1256202305680158720

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Apparently it is *legal* in Michigan to bring weapons into the Statehouse, so even if they had been so inclined (ha), the cops could have done nothing.

Al-Saqr posted:

What?! I CaNT BELIEVE THIS?!?! how?!?!?! Surely not GEORGIA?!?!

https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1256248545520373760?s=21

Charlz Guybon posted:

9,623 new cases in Russia today.

facetoucher cat posted:

I don't want to be sick anymore. It's now hard to breathe and once I start coughing I almost puke it gets so violent. My stupid test was negative so if I don't have it then what's wrong with me? My doctor said something about other viruses they're seeing that are, and I quote, "not the flu but just as bad as covid-19" but WTF is that supposed to mean? Like? WTF? She also said she's not convinced I don't have it. What's the point of a test if it's not totally valid? Why would they put that on the market? I'm afraid to call her because I don't want to upset my husband who started to get angry with me yesterday for still being sick and all whiny and I get it, I was being pathetic and I guess he's going to say this is my normal asthma or something but that hasn't given me issues in a little bit. I'm scared and don't really have anywhere to turn. This is all bullshit

MadJackal posted:

Oh sure, why the gently caress not. Wrote this about 9 hours ago:


I beat myself up about running a “Soft Code.” In retrospect, it wasn’t that Soft and I was too Hard on myself afterwards. I respected the patient’s wish for a trial of CPR, and inevitably it didn’t work. It’s ok not to grasp at every last straw if it’s deemed medically futile. We don’t force surgeons to perform operations they know will end with the patient dead on the table, but for whatever reason in the US we do force the hands of physicians to perform this one particular unnecessary procedure.

And as of time of writing (Day, uhhhh, 41?) I just came back from a perfect example of what I was trying to avoid all those weeks ago.

See I just participated in a capital H Hard Code.

88M w/PMH of several chronic health issues, COVID positive, satting well on a NRB up until an hour ago. For a variety of reasons, he became hypoxic which caused his heart to lose its F’n mind. Rapid Response called. A couple minutes after we enter the room, the patient goes from agonal breathing to not breathing at all. He’s also barely got a pulse if you feel in juuust the right spot on his neck. Code Blue called.

The first compression is the worst because that’s the push that pops the breast bone, the sternum, off the ribs adjoining it like a zipper. Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. Seven ribs attached to the sternum in pairs, so really fourteen pops, but it feels sort of like steepling your fingers and swiftly pushing your hands together until your knuckles start sounding off. Hard to know exactly how many knuckles cracked, right? The difference is during CPR, you can feel under your palms and the pressure-sensing pad glued to this poor old man’s chest a floating sternum. And a little red machine sitting on top of what looks like a three foot tall toolbox displays Very Important Squiggles and commands you in a stern, android voice to Push Harder.

Seriously, a robot tonight told me I wasn’t cracking ribs hard enough for its sadistic pleasure.

When I started feeling one rib, then two snap like a dry branch, the robot told me Good Job.

It is an absolute blessing tonight that the other COVID patient in the room just one bed over is too sick, lethargic and confused to take in any of this.

Because she’s married to this guy.

We push one amp of epi, we take turns lasting five minutes a cycle violently abusing a body. Every push pumps a little more coronavirus into the air and maybe, probably puts everyone in the room at risk for a light dusting of Plague.

Let’s count them, shall we? The Intensivist himself, the Respiratory Therapist, the Anesthesiologist preparing to intubate, the other Respiratory Therapist, the nurse setting up the ventilator machine, the nurse pushing the epis, the nurse handing out goodies from the toolbox, the nurse in the room taking note of every minute of Doing Everything We Can. Oh, and me. Nine by my count.

Another amp. Another five minutes of compressions.

But the Intensivist running the show still feels a pulse. Another five minutes while the anesthesiologist sets up to intubate. There’s some discussion about whether we can ambo-bag the patient like we normally would in CPR, but maybe that makes the aerosol bomb in the room worse? We bag him anyway.

Tube’s in. Five more minutes of compressions.

We hold compressions because we’ve gotten ROSC, Return Of Spontaneous Circulation.

The Intensivist asks to set up an Epi drip in the room. Because if two pushes of Epi kept him alive an extra 10 minutes, let’s just keep the party going.

Hard Code.

It takes a while for the Epi drip to get to the room. This isn’t the ICU, we don’t have these things standing by. By this time the patient’s jugular vein looks like a fat rope sticking out of his neck. All the blood that should have been draining from his brain is now stuck in gridlock waiting to get back to the right side of the heart.

I look no further up. I’ve stopped looking into Coded patients’ eyes. Does too much damage.

We’re at about the 20 minute mark. ROSC goes back to erratic pulse, to no pulse. Very Important Squiggles still show something though, so it’s Pulseless Electrical Activity. We go back to compressions for next 5 minutes while we try to set up the Epi drip. ROSC again. Barely.

By now, Nursing Admin has entered the room, and there’s a suggestion that maybe we don’t need to Code this guy three times in a row.

“This won’t reverse the underlying issue.” Succinctly said.

It’s agreed, no more compressions.

Maybe there’s a thin, thin pulse.

Now even the Squiggles are getting lethargic and aren’t coming as often.

Slower, slower.

Flat line.

Time of death called.

Half an hour in a COVID blast radius for nine people.

…

Do you see what I was trying to avoid?

Charlz Guybon posted:

UK, Italy, Spain and France all have death rates over 10%. Are they all as bad as the US at testing?

Mr. Pizza posted:

someone please post the twitter guy who does daily updates with all the nice graphs and such

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

where are you getting 2900 dead for may 1st?

I see 1800 on most sites


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

Woofer posted:

it’s going away when it gets hot

euphronius posted:

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facetoucher cat posted:

My husband did that this weekend with a copilot and played some War Thunder. It makes me horribly sick unfortunately because it's super cool

Charlz Guybon posted:

Belgium has 323 dead today (compared to 272 new cases)

Mexico has 1,120 new cases and 236 dead

Don't think the heat is going to slow this down.

Shear Modulus posted:

galenanorth posted:

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1258063687233003520

If the mortality rate is 1%, and 100% of Americans catch it, then that means 3 million deaths in the U.S.. For every million deaths, if we look at surveys for "how much should we spend to save a life" by looking at things like highway speed limits, it usually comes out to $10 million, and we very often fail to meet even that standard for things like air pollution. That comes out to $10 trillion per million deaths. That's almost half of the entire U.S. GDP per million deaths prevented. They can attack the strawman that this is about locking down as long as it "saves one life" as much as they want, but it's never been the case, because the potential loss of life at stake is so momentous. They could be focusing their energy on attacking Congress for not doing something like instituting a UBI and putting a national moratorium on evictions, but they can't resist an opportunity to punch down instead of up.

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/hqdada/status/1257887834310131712