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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

Hospital policy probably differs nation to nation. Regrettably it’s clear that if not deliberate murder, management policy did increase death rates in spring 2020 in U.K.

I know Italy also made excessive use of mechanical ventilation. I have found this very worrying because covid19 isn’t an obstructive lung disorder.

If blood gasses fall, the classical solution is high flow oxygen mask, NOT intubation & mechanical ventilation. The latter is very dangerous, especially to frail people.

Few know that if you take a cohort of healthy people & sedate/intubate/ventilate, a few days later, you’ll begin seeing deaths from pulmonary oedema & bacterial pneumonia.

It’s also a high skill role, to “fly the patient”, avoiding excessive positive pressure, balancing end tidal pressure etc

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Sweden is interesting. If they have similar vaccination rates, then really you've eliminated the vaccine as a variable, or at least the deciding variable (I know science probably has a better term). The one thing Sweden did have was a much looser COVID policy and they took a much more sane attitude toward the whole thing. So as much as I hate the vaccine and think it's dangerous, we've never really gotten this hysterical over a virus before and shut people away, ruined their businesses, thrown the lives of nearly an entire globe into chaos. One could hypothesize that COVID policy is the determining factor here, not vaccination. That the policy has caused so much mental anguish, lack of movement (physical fitness), delayed treatment, etc., that it's literally killing people even two years on.

One could also suppose that because Sweden's policy was looser, more people got mild infections of COVID and COVID was more widespread, so biologically perhaps getting COVID protected people from the worse side effects of the vaccine.

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