How Covid Kills Some People But Not Others – If you want to verify my credentials, feel free to do so on this website, from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Here you can see that I am board certified in all of my specialties. This virus, we know, is mainly transmitted by respiratory droplets, …
Ivermectin is an FDA-approved medication for parasitic infections. Ivermectin is widely available due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines. Ivermectin opens glutamate-sensitive chloride channel currents in helminths, and it is widely believed that this is how it kills certain parasites. It’s the drug of choice for the treatment of onchocerciasis …
Do I Need to Shave my Beard for Covid? (And which facial hairstyles are acceptable?)Link: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf N95 masks are to prevent airborne transmission. But you have to have a tight seal around the mouth and nose for them to be effective. Therefore, only certain facial hairstyles are acceptable (according to the CDC). Check them out …
The average length of mechanical ventilation for patients with COVID who have ARDS is 17 days. For some patients, ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is a last-ditch effort that involves taking blood out of the body, oxygenating that blood, removing carbon dioxide from that blood, and returning that blood to the body. Also, during this pandemic, …
Most COVID Patients, who need a breathing tube, meaning mechanical ventilation, do not live. Based on a recent study, only 14% live. To understand why this is, let’s look at what intubation and mechanical ventilation mean, and we also have to realize what COVID does to the lungs. When we intubate someone, meaning put a …
COVID FAQ – Board Certified Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician Doctor Mike Hansen answers more questions about COVID in this video. Such as: How did COVID originate?Ans: In December 2019, Chinese doctors started noticing new pneumonia cases of unknown cause. The severe pneumonia was causing more and more deaths. Based on genetic studies, this new …
COVID has brought unprecedented challenges regarding the ability to generate timely evidence, all while this pandemic overwhelms hospitals and health care workers. About 5% of patients with COVID require admission to the intensive care unit and mechanical ventilation. Based on the recent epidemiological models, COVID is going to hit all the areas in this country. …
When it comes to COVID, President Trump has called chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine “game-changers,” while Dr. Fauci, at the same time, has said, “there is no magic drug.” There is potential promise in these drugs because in labs, meaning in a test tube, they are effective against the old SARS virus and possibly against the new …
Handwashing with soap and water is the single best way to avoid getting sick, and it’s also the easiest way. It not only mechanically removes many germs, but it also chemically kills a lot of germs by busting that germ open, breaking it apart. This includes busting to open the virus that causes COVID, SARS-CoV-2. …
How Long Does the COVID Live on Surfaces: This video is about how the virus is transmitted, how long the SARS-CoV-2 virus lives on surfaces, and how long it persists in the aerosol. Person-to-person spread of the virus mainly occurs through respiratory droplets. Whenever an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks, those droplets can infect …
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