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More science, more data, more reality the Democrat-media complex is ignoring in order to seize power, continue lockdowns in order to destroy the economy and destroy Trump.
New York City ER doc on frontline of COVID-19 battle explains why America should reopen immediately
‘The wave passed over us, peaked and subsided’
By: The Blaze, April 29, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementOne emergency room doctor who has been on the frontline of the coronavirus fight in New York City says it is time to reopen America.
Leaning on his experience treating COVID-19 patients, Dr. Daniel Murphy, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, explained in an essay for the New York Post why he believes America should strongly consider reopening.
1. The curve is flattening
According to Murphy, who actually contracted COVID-19, the “wave has crested.”
“At 1 p.m. on April 7, the COVID-19 arrivals slowed down. It was a discrete, noticeable event,” he wrote. “Stretchers became available by 5 p.m., and the number of arriving COVID-19 patients dropped below the number discharged, transferred or deceased.”
“This was striking, because the community I serve is poor. Some are homeless. Most work in ‘essential,’ low-paying jobs, where distancing isn’t easy. Nevertheless, the wave passed over us, peaked and subsided,” Murphy explained. “The way this transpired tells me the ebb and flow had more to do with the natural course of the outbreak than it did with the lockdown.”
2. Non-COVID care has plummeted — which is bad
According to Murphy, his ER has seen a significant drop in non-COVID patients. In fact, his ER, which he said normally sees 240 patients per day, is now averaging fewer than 100.
“That means our patients in this diverse, low-income community are afraid to come to the ER for non-COVID care,” Murphy explained.
Murphy said the “unfortunate consequence of the stay-at-home strategy” is that growing numbers of people are dying at home because they are afraid to seek out medical help.
“A large share of those staying home surely have emergency medical and surgical conditions not related to the novel coronavirus,” he explained. “The growing numbers dying at home during this crisis must include fatal myocardial infarctions, asthma exacerbations, bacterial infections and strokes.”
“Meanwhile, our pediatric volume in the ER has practically disappeared. Visits to primary-care pediatricians are also down, with vaccine schedules falling behind,” Murphy said. “Everyone seems to be avoiding the health system.”
3. COVID fear is over-amplified
“Inordinate fear misguides the public response,” Murphy explained. “While COVID-19 is serious, fear of it is being over-amplified. The public needs to understand that the vast majority of infected people do quite well.”
4. COVID is more prevalent than we know
Murphy said that more people have contracted COVID-19 than have tested positive for the virus. This is due to the fact that a significant number of COVID-positive patients are asymptomatic.
“Many New Yorkers already have the COVID-19 infection, whether they are aware of it or not. As of today, over 43 percent of those tested are positive in The Bronx. We are developing a significant degree of natural herd immunity,” Murphy explained. “Distancing works, but I am skeptical that it is playing as predominant a role as many think.”
“More testing will better establish the numbers among those with mild illnesses and no symptoms. My professional experience tells me the number of infected people will be high,” he continued.
“Testing is important work, but it should happen in parallel to the immediate resuscitation of the economy and getting people back to work,” Murphy wrote.
Indeed, antibody testing shows that more people have contracted COVID-19 than have tested positive for the virus. This indicates that COVID-19 is less lethal than reported numbers show.
Murphy is not the only doctor calling for an end to the lockdown.
Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi from Bakersfield, California, called for an end to the shutdown last week after significant testing showed them that reopening would be safe because the virus is less lethal than believed. The doctors also said quarantine is preventing the build up of immunity.
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4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Remdesivir Goes to War on Covid-19 – Saves US Soldiers Lives
https://defensemaven.io/warriormaven/land/army-war-on-covid-saves-soldiers-lives-with-anti-viral-remdesivir-0imYmtJ2QEq-O78O8PYfBw
“So far we have seen success with Remdesivir to the point where we have gotten a few service members excavated and actually discharged. We started a month ago at Landstuhl (Army Medical Center in Germany) and a few medical centers throughout DoD. I think we are up to 10 medical centers now,” Gen. John Murray, Commander, Army Futures Command, told Warrior in an interview.
Use of the drug emerges from a cooperative research agreement between an element of Army Futures Command called the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activities Force Health Protection program and scientists from a biopharmaceutical company called Gilead, Army officials explained.
As Murray indicated, Army officials involved in the effort told Warrior “this is not a clinical trial but a treatment protocol which the Force Health Protection Division allows for the investigational use of remdesivir to treat DOD personnel diagnosed with moderate-severe COVID-19.”
4 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Yet Fauci CONTINUES to be one of Trump’s top advisers, along with Jared Kushner, who pressured Congress into passing the USMCA bill, which Trump didn’t have time to read before he signed it and it completely destroys American sovereignty.
4 years ago
Unfortunately Germany is regressing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/germans-urged-to-stay-home-amid-covid-19-infection-rate-fears
4 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
Yeah, Germany opened up too quickly. But with good surveillance, they can clamp down again.
4 years ago
China makes doctors disappear, so does YouTube and Google when they don’t preach the Deep State narrative.
4 years ago
In January, I started reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. I’m stuck near the end; I don’t want to finish it until this is over. It’s more horrifying than anything Stevie King ever wrote because it mirrors so much of what is going on. Ok, so nonfiction is probably the key. Except my nonfiction selection was Gulag Archipelago by that Russian guy,.Oh em gee! I really picked a rotten time to read this. Thank heavens for the Bible. It never lets its readers down. So at least, there’s that. Yeesh and oy vey as they say.
4 years ago
““The way this transpired tells me the ebb and flow had more to do with
the natural course of the outbreak than it did with the lockdown.”
That’s right doc, and do you know why? OK, I’ll tell you. It’s because the lockdown was more of a reaction as opposed to a decision based on medical science. Our bodies develop immunity to viruses by being exposed to viruses, don’t you remember high school biology class? This ridiculous “social distancing” and idiotic “self quarantine” doesn’t give your immune system a chance to to develop an immunity to this virus, and you can expect a spike in allot of things like colds and flu, etc, once this is over because once all the sheeple take off their retarded mask and come out of isolation their immune system will be weakened.
Just sayin…..
4 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
Yup and then they will go with more fear mongering. I work, so hopefully I am lucky with the immune stuff. Taking my vitamins and exercising. The only hard part I am having is the unfounded fear I have to see everyday. I see people waking up, so that keeps me going. I do not care if people need to come near me. We just need to take the hit for freedom. We all thought it would be our guns, but it has to be us taking the risk of getting sick and just re-open for freedom.
4 years ago
What have we accomplished by stifling the greatest economy in our nation’s history?
If you keep track of the numbers of known cases and resultant deaths, they just keep ticking up. I understand about changes due to more sophisticated testing methods but blaming every death of the most endangered demographic is a corruption of the data.
Statistics are like a prostitute. You can do with them just about anything you wish.
Let’s return to life as we knew it.
