Originally Posted by ElkSlayer91
Originally Posted by DocRocket

I haven’t seen any updates lately that I trust, but previous numbers showed fewer than 20% of COVID test-positive patients requiring hospital care, and about 2-4% requiring mechanical ventilation. Most of those on the vents survive. The 80% death rate on ventilators being reported by some hospitals is NOT representative as I understand.


Hope you don't mind Doc. Here's some info I printed a few weeks back, for you to see a study showing death rates on vents.

Re-posting here, to try to help save some lives:

Of the people who go onto a ventilator, under any medical condition, only 50% survive to come off it. Only 30% of the total that are put on survive a year. There was a study in the medical industry that created those statistics.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8404197

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We reviewed a 5-year experience with mechanical ventilation in 383 men with acute respiratory failure and studied the impact of patient age, cause of acute respiratory failure, and duration of mechanical ventilation on survival. Survival rates were 66.6 percent to weaning, 61.1 percent to ICU discharge, 49.6 percent to hospital discharge, and 30.1 percent to 1 year after hospital discharge.



With the Covid-19, and it being a virus that “directly” attacks the lungs, that 50% that come off it above, could fall quite a bit. It could be extremely low, and they aren’t reporting those numbers. Wonder why.

Bottom line, if your lung capacity is low from the start, before you even get the virus, you’re in a bad situation right off the bat, because the virus will diminish your lung capacity by about 5 MET, so you’ll need an extra tank of gas (additional lung capacity above 5 MET) to be able to breath and supply oxygen to your body.

A normal person with zero health issues: No smoking, no COPD, diabetes, no severe over weight, etc. consumes the following MET:

1 - MET – sitting
2/3 - MET walking around, working
8 – MET working out on a stair stepper, fast walk sustained 30 minutes, or casual jog 10-12 min./mile for 2.5 – 3 miles.

So you see, if you start with 8 MET and the virus robs you of 5 MET, you’ll have 3 MET reserve capacity left to just lay in bed, and breath or get up and walk to eat, etc.

That is why it is critical for people to start doing a cardio work-out, however they can RIGHT NOW, to build up their lung capacity, so they’ll have a chance to fight it. It takes about 2 months normally, some faster. Just depends where you’re starting from capacity wise.

You can see, if you start off with a diminished capacity, you’re cooked right off the bat. A ventilator can not make up that capacity.

Even if the elderly have leg joint issues, et al., they can give their lungs a workout just doing deep breathing, slow so they don’t hyperventilate, for an extended period, to build up.

https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-increase-lung-capacity

Or get a Spirometer. Several different brands on the market, $6-$10:

https://www.healthykin.com//p-5364-...Zha3E6AIVDYiGCh2SOQZvEAQYAiABEgKSdvD_BwE

The reason it isn’t killing kids, is the fact they have good lungs: run around all day. As people get older, they stop staying in shape (low lung capacity), thus the death rate climbs as the age goes up.

It’s a bad deal all around with the way it attacks the lungs.

** I wrote the above back on March 19, 2020 to help you guys in another thread.

Re-posting here to help who I can, to encourage you to get your lung capacity up, if you are not in shape.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...14678921/re-total-shut-down#Post14678921


Good info

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