Early in the pandemic, Ford Motor Company shifted resources and partnered with other companies to start making various types of medical supplies - PPE including visors, respirators, and ventilators. The ingenuity in how to create these devices, sometimes even using truck parts, is pretty fascinating.
Here is an interesting story by an ER doc who is also the Medical Contributor to a Detroit TV station. He talks about how the respirator allows him to breathe well with fresh filtered air for night shifts in the ER, and patients are more comfortable seeing staff in this gear.
That’s another thing I don’t get, the apparent shortage of ventilators, devices which are not designed to aid the pulmonary system - because the excess pressure they force into the lungs can traumatise the alveoli - but to prolong the life of someone who is actually dying from acute pulmonary distress.
COVID-19 patients testing positive for second infection not contagious, study shows…
Researchers in Korea found evidence that patients who test positive for COVID-19 a second time aren’t capable of infecting others, and may have neutralizing antibodies that protect them from getting sick again.
The findings from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) could have major ramifications for areas looking to reopen their economies, and have led health authorities in the nation to change their protocols for people who have been discharged from isolation.
Researchers studied 285 patients who had survived COVID-19, but subsequently tested positive after multiple negative tests showed they had supposedly recovered. The scientists found a total of 790 contacts, none of whom tested positive as a result of being exposed to the “reinfected” patients.
In addition, virus samples collected from the reinfected patients couldn’t be grown in culture, meaning the patients were “shedding” dead virus particles.
In all re-positive cases and newly confirmed cases, researchers found neutralizing antibodies.
It is not known yet whether a positive result for antibodies means a person is immune to the disease, and experts have cautioned against making major decisions based on the test results.
Experts believe the presence of antibodies probably means people have been exposed and have some level of protection against the virus, but they don’t have solid proof yet. They also don’t know how long immunity might last.
The KCDC study showed that, despite antibodies, 44 percent of the “reinfected” population had symptoms such as a cough or sore throat…
Have you some kind of link for that story? I can’t imagine that a highly-trained specialist can just be disappeared without being picked up by the press and various authorities, not to mention his/her family.
“Coronavirus: UK arrivals could face £1,000 fines if they break quarantine”
And if they refuse to pay it? I don’t suppose the cretins have thought of that? Here’s one man who has though . . .
" Ryanair boss Michael O’Learydescribed the plan to quarantine travellers as “idiotic” and “unimplementable”, while trade body Airlines UK said it “would effectively kill” international travel to and from Britain."
Whatever does the rest of the world think of us as it watches the farce?
(the BBC obviously thinks it’s a great idea though? )
But it doesn’t matter what evidence is available - and there’s plenty of it - which is contrary to the official narrative, they just simply ignore it - almost as if they dare not even consider it? I expect you’ve already seen this, but just in case . . .
Here’s one man who has though . . .