Huh? In NYC, report of pandemic NOT showing up as viral pneumonia

Living with uncertainty

April 10, 2020

COVID-19 A Condition of Oxygen Deprivation, Not Pneumonia, says NYC ICU Doctor:

Website article excerpted below. Full article HERE.

The original one-minute video from ICU doc:

FROM NYC DOC: SHOULD COVID-19 VENTILATOR PROTOCALS BE CHANGED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaq8HoEROU

A NYC physician named Cameron Kyle-Sidell has posted two short YouTube videos, pleading for health practitioners to recognize COVID-19 is not a pneumonia-like disease at all. It’s an oxygen deprivation condition, and the use of ventilators may be doing more harm than good with some patients. …

He talks about how he expected to be treating patients with a viral pneumonia infection which progress into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). However the disease acted nothing like ARDS.

“This is the paradigm every hospital in the country is working under,” he warns. “And yet, everything I’ve seen in the last nine days, all the things just don’t make sense. The patients I’m seeing in front of me, the lungs I’m trying to improve, have led me to believe COVID-19 is not this disease, and that we are…