Not wishing to agree with the conspiratorially minded lunatic, but...
"“Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said ‘I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not,’” said Dr Jane Appleby, the chief medical officer at Methodist hospital in San Antonio."
Just before he died? Really? Did he wake up from his induced coma and unplug himself from the ventilator to say that? Or was the illness so strong that one moment he was sat up talking to his nurse and the very next moment he dropped dead?
Of course the main takeaway is that Covid parties are for suicidal idiots, but Grauniad journalists suck, and/or that quoted doctor misspoke.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 13:55,
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so you have a practising doctor going on record, but you think it's a media conspiracy based on what, your pissant opinion of covid?
you make a quite misinformed assumption that all those who die from covid die on mechanical ventilation?
I put together training for doctors and nurses on all the different ways people are dying of covid, and there's a lot of people dying in many different ways.
sepsis is a major killer of covid patients, to name one. basically after covid is done ravaging your body and immune system, starving oxygen from vital organs and damaging them, you become a big risk of sepsis death, which can happen days or weeks after you're taken off ventilation if you were on it in the first place, which not all patients are. intubation is quite a serious step and not without it's risks or difficulties. A scenario where a covid patient is still able to communicate and then dies in less than an hour from untreatable sepsis is not particularly far fetched or uncommon. Some are told they're likely to die, as health professionals have an obligation not to give inaccurate information to patients. This includes this treating doctor who would lose her job if it turns out she's been inventing patient histories, though there's not a skerrick of evidence to support your wild aspersions.
It's not the guardian who sucks, they're reporting a story from a verified on-record source, it's your massively uninformed opinions talking about shit you don't know just because it makes some dicks feel better to believe everything is fake news.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Jul 2020, 15:02,
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harumph
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 14 Jul 2020, 0:48,
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