Why Days 5 to 10 Are So Important When You Have Coronavirus

[cayugafalls]

From the NYTimes;

...While most patients recover in about a week, a significant minority of patients enter “a very nasty second wave” of illness, said Dr. Ilan Schwartz, assistant professor of infectious disease at the University of Alberta. “After the initial symptoms, things plateau and maybe even improve a little bit, and then there is a secondary worsening.”

While every patient is different, doctors say that days five through 10 of the illness are often the most worrisome time for respiratory complications of Covid-19, particularly for older patients and those with underlying conditions like high blood pressure, obesity or diabetes...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/well/live/coronavirus-days-5-through-10.html

We have a good friend who lost her husband to COVID. He was in the hospital for 3 days. They let him go home because he improved enough to lose his room. 4 days later he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. He died on the way to the hospital.

Regular folks do not get preemptive treatment with experimental drugs, they do not get therapeutics early or at first sign of a symptom, they do have to walk out of the hospital, while still sick, if the doctors need a bed for someone worse off.

Regular folks are usually stuck with million dollar bills after a loved one dies from COVID.

Regular folks deserve better...

[livetohike]

1. So sorry for the loss of your friend. I also feel sorry for

all of the people who keep the White House running and those that protect the Trumps. They and we all deserve better care.

[cayugafalls]

2. Thank you...when we saw the press conference today and they said he might get discharged

Monday, it brought back lots of feelings.

I just hope they are not playing with Trumps health, I know we all say he gets what he deserves, but this is quite an emotional blow for the entire nation and the longer they gaslight us and control their optics, it wears people down and takes an emotional toll.

We, the people, deserve better.

Thanks again for your words...

[marlakay]

3. Sorry for your friend

Us normal folks are not in hospital with this unless its real bad, I think Trump went for a mild case and even with a mild case they are giving all the treatments because of who he is.

I personally think he will end up ok. I think he deserves a bad case but he might not get it.

[Duppers]

4. Excellent post.

TRump is not out of the woods with covids yet.

Very sorry for your friend and her husband. You're so right....

"Regular folks deserve better..."

[cayugafalls]

6. Thank you, that means a lot.

It is one of the main reasons, I love DU.

[Sancho]

5. Is this a Darwin Award moment that we are witnessing?

...he is simply insane....