Posted on Jun 23, 2020
‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing
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Fake news directly from his mouth!
Fake news directly from his mouth!
‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing
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Keep this quote in mind when people later say he was joking about something. "I don't kid."
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All testing of the walking well has done is to increase paranoia, cost millions of jobs, and possibly most important, falsely lowered the mortality rate in comparison to other similar diseases. When is the last time we have done drive through flu testing? People might reply, well the flu is not as deadly as COVID, well how do you know that? How we have tested and responded to COVID from healthcare to government response to the media, everything has been different. Hospitals get more money for COVID cases and government faculties have COVID funding available. Every time we test for the walking well COVID and not the flu, it skews the data. Every time the government pays three times as much for a COVID patient on a ventilator when the bedside care is not any different than a flu patient on a vent, you must ask questions. The flu probably costs more dollars as there are IV antivirals where as COVID will be treated for symptoms. Heard about the new miracle drug dexamethasone? It is a steroid that is cheap and been around for years and primarily treats conditions suffering from any kind of inflammation. I have had several opportunities to get tested and considering it will change nothing for family, I have no desire to get testing and be part of the paranoid walking well.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Ken Landgren - I propose proper public health education and stop making this political. The first will be much easier but we have to get the media on board. Need to teach people to ask questions and we MUST get my peers to stop teaching the side of this that agrees or disagrees with their political side. Politics have no business in healthcare. Who I am voting for in NOV has no bearing how I do my job as an RN and once I am retired, who I vote for will not exclude my harshest opinions on what they are doing in the medical field.
I honestly fear there is a large group of people that believe if they go get tested and they are negative they are good to go. I have also seen people delay seeking treatment waiting on their results and I believe that has cost lives. Nasal testing only gives you a snapshot at that very moment and in no way shape or form dictates any treatment. Healthcare is an evidenced based practice and there is nothing wrong with telling people we do not have any good data or evidence to make proper decisions. My opinion three months ago with what I think this is and how to treat it has changed and I think we are looking at September before we really have good evidence based practice and data.
How we are testing every Tom, Dick, and Harry for COVID-19 and not the equally deadly flu is going to throw the data out the window and we will never know if we got this right. I do know making big decisions on poor data has long term repercussions and with mortality rates dropping with testing unheard of with past illnesses, no one is going to listen on the next big one until it kills far more.
I honestly fear there is a large group of people that believe if they go get tested and they are negative they are good to go. I have also seen people delay seeking treatment waiting on their results and I believe that has cost lives. Nasal testing only gives you a snapshot at that very moment and in no way shape or form dictates any treatment. Healthcare is an evidenced based practice and there is nothing wrong with telling people we do not have any good data or evidence to make proper decisions. My opinion three months ago with what I think this is and how to treat it has changed and I think we are looking at September before we really have good evidence based practice and data.
How we are testing every Tom, Dick, and Harry for COVID-19 and not the equally deadly flu is going to throw the data out the window and we will never know if we got this right. I do know making big decisions on poor data has long term repercussions and with mortality rates dropping with testing unheard of with past illnesses, no one is going to listen on the next big one until it kills far more.
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