Shout it from the roof tops!!! Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for Covid-19 patients, saying that large numbers of patients could instead be treated with less intensive respiratory support.If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some.What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their brains show no signs of blinking off from lack of oxygen.That is making critical care physicians suspect that blood levels of oxygen, which for decades have driven decisions about breathing support for patients with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress, might be misleading them about how to care for those with Covid-19. In particular, more and more are concerned about the use of intubation and mechanical ventilators. They argue that more patients could receive simpler, noninvasive respiratory support, such as the breathing masks used in sleep apnea, at least to start with and maybe for the duration of the illness.

Virus May Spread Twice as Fast as Earlier Thought, Study Says

This is the problem with lock downs. It is not that they don’t work in the short term it is just that they can never end. Particularly if there is no vaccine and the virus is particularly virulent as the above link suggests. They remembered what happened two decades ago with SARS: People died, economies suffered. So they locked down their immigration hardest and soonest, deployed public health workers to follow up contacts of cases, got their hospitals shored up, and started publishing clear and consistent information and data. They flattened their curves before the rest of the world understood there would be curves to flatten. But in recent weeks, those curves have taken another chilling turn. The numbers of new cases in these places are creeping upward.

The same is true of all countries with a significant out break. New York’s Coronavirus Death Toll is Almost Certainly Far Higher Than Reported

Eyeing the long road to normality

CBS News Goes Full Fake but Accurate With Correction on Viral Crying Nurse Video

New Zealand, but it is going to spread if this don’t end. Coronavirus: Growers fear millions of fruit will rot on trees

For what it is worth…Hydroxychloroquine Update For April 6

Coronavirus: Can Japan’s ‘soft lockdown’ stop COVID-19?

In the interest of fairness, it remains to be seen if Sweden sticks to their guns. They have had a lot more deaths per capita then other Nordic countries and a lot more even then the US at this point. I still think they are doing it right for the long term, but it remains to be seen if they can stick to it. Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus?

Germany’s coronavirus response: Separating fact from fiction

Shout it from the roof tops. Divergence of fortunes with nearby Lombardy stems from keeping more patients away from hospitals, experts say

REMEMBERING THE 1957 ASIAN FLU EPIDEMIC

Coronavirus: why the Nordics are our best bet for comparing strategies

China Thought It Had Beaten Coronavirus, But New And Asymptomatic Cases Are Cropping Up

How Misinformation About the U.S. Needing ‘1 Million Ventilators’ Spread

Most of the mistakes are understandable and likely to be repeated in this country. But there was one really criminal mistake the someone should be shot for. The lessons Italy has learned about its COVID-19 outbreak could help the rest of the world

Azure Cracks, AWS Strong: COVID-19 Stress Tests the Cloud

Only in mice so far. Coronavirus: Potential vaccine generates enough antibodies to fight off virus, first peer-reviewed study suggests

The Wages of Flattening The Curve. Chinese county goes into coronavirus lockdown amid fear of second wave

Headline Lies. He was shot dead for attacking the police with a scythe. But still the Philippines is being very irrational. Man shot dead for flouting coronavirus rules

Kinda of funny they are destroying the state and yet still letting this happen. Coronavirus News: Social distancing is not happening on the NYC subway

Pertaining to Italy—-The real death toll for Covid-19 is at least 4 times the official numbers

Not a surprise. U of M’s Osterholm says obesity could be deadly factor in U.S. COVID-19 outbreak

This is in the Philippines, but it shows how lock downs can make things worse. Manila port may shut down in 6 days as it gets swamped by undelivered cargo: port authority

France under-reporting its numbers. More than a third of care homes in the Paris region alone are thought to have been affected by coronavirus. But while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not.

Not withstanding the titles, there is still no good evidence that a paper mask protects oneself from a virus that is heavy in the environment as this article itself admits if you read it very carefully. But there is a fair amount of evidence that they help stop the spread to other people. It’s Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work

China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says