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Drew Armstrong
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Drew Armstrong
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- Reporting in Kentucky hospitals, I saw a lot of covid patients. What are they like? One man was in a high-flow oxygen mask. He was lying in bed, making tiny, fast bites at the air, gasping. He looked like he was suffocating, like a dying fish washed up on the beach.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewBut the result is that there is horror inside the hospital, and outside it you get "we've moved on from Covid" takes. Those are understandable -- those people do not see what doctors and nurses see.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewAlmost every doctor and nurse I spoke to said they did not think anyone outside the hospital knew what things were like. Most of the public has no idea. But they have seen horror after horror.
- 💉VACCINE DATA UPDATE (March 13)💉 🚨Record day of reported vaccinations, with 4.6M. 50% higher than past 2.9M record. Looking into why (data dump/lag, +capacity, etc.) 📊4.6M doses today; 7-day avg=2.54M/day 🇺🇸US: 106M doses total Full graphic/data: bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
- BREAKING: Vaccine makers are planning a public statement to push back on pressure on the FDA:
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewFor the people who get really sick, this disease is brutal. It's very hard to understand that until you see it yourself. Most people never will, though. Patient privacy laws make it VERY hard for hospitals to let journalists in. (Protecting patient privacy is important.)
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewI saw other patients on ventilators. They're pale and sedated. They look dead, until the ventilator pushes air into their lungs and their chest heaves upward. None of the looks natural, and it's very, very upsetting to watch.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewBut they want you to know how bad things are. I will never, ever forget what these patients look like, and I was there well after the surge.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewI heard multiple stories about nurses trying to get a family on facetime as a patient was about to be intubated, and then being the only person holding their hand when they died.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrew“I put somebody in a body bag every day that I worked, for two months," one told me. Many said it was impossible to go back home to their families at the end of the day. One was thinking about quitting if there was another surge.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewAnyways, this has been my HIPAA thread.
- Replying to @ArmstrongDrewI also saw patients on ECMO (heart-lung bypass). It can be a life-saving bridge to a lung transplant or recovery. About half of the patients die. It is also not gentle -- the patients have a garden hose-sized tube in the jugular and another in the groin. Plus a half-dozen IVs.
- These are astonishing results in weight loss. 24.% weight loss at 48 weeks. Average loss of 58 pounds. Blows out of the water everything else we've seen so far.
