And Texas Caves In

pnichols wrote:

T18skyguy wrote:

free radical wrote:
Wuhan China ends lockdown as Covid19 efectively controled

https://youtu.be/H6dQVyz0syw

Yes, but it took them 76 days, and they have complete control of their citizens. Not at all like in this country. We depend on voluntary compliance, which has actually worked quite well. The battle between micro-organism's and macro-organism's has been going on for eons. There has probably been millions of pandemics, that's exactly why we have an immune system. An event like this "culls the herd" and makes the rest stronger. It's natural selection at work. I know it's a stark description, but it's true. The virus adapts, then we adapt. Statistically, it is not 1%. It's been averaging 2.5% to 3.5% overall. Over the course of my career, I've probably intubated about 10,000 people. It's not the way you want to leave this world. To tolerate intubation, they not only sedate you but often paralyze you with medication. So your gagging but you can't move. It's horrible. Then you die from suffocation anyway if your an unlucky one. Once they get a vaccine, and we get herd immunity, it will be more like the flu. It does look like, for the most part, they have avoided a catastrotphe that could have gone to a million or more.

Your post above reminded me of something I've been wondering about recently: Medical science has brought us all kinds of wonderful things and ways to help ill and injured humans ... including such devices as artificial heart machines that support the body's blood flow temporarily while the heart is being operated on.

When is medical science going to come up with a machine - operating beside the patient's bed - that the patient's blood can be diverted temporarily through and oxygenated before being returned into the patient?

A medical device like this could maybe keep folks alive while their lungs and/or trachea recovered from some kind of damage or disease ... without having to intube patients and use respirators on them.

A blood oxygenation machine like this could also be used during artificial lung implants once that becomes viable: https://aabme.asme.org/posts/artificial-lungs-could-offer-real-hope-to-future-transplant-patients

When is medical science going to come up with a machine - operating beside the patient's bed - that the patient's blood can be diverted temporarily through and oxygenated before being returned into the patient?

You and I could of made a billions off that idea, but they already have it. It's called ECMO, or Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and it works at the bedside. When it gets to that point a lot of patients won't live, but some do.