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Originally Posted by mdj930
Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies. You’ll spend several days in the hospital feeling run-down, but if we can wean you off the oxygen, you’ll get discharged. You survive.
Riddle me this. Why are medical experts not starting treatment before hospitalization?
monoclonal antibodies have have proven to prevent hospitalization in 97.3% of cases.
The outrage should be lack of outpatient care.
Mike
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I'll start.
From the GSK package insert.
Clinical Worsening After SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibody Administration
Clinical worsening of COVID-19 after administration of SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody treatment has been reported and may include signs or symptoms of fever, hypoxia or increased respiratory difficulty, arrythmia (e.g., atrial fibrillation, tachycardia, bradycardia), fatigue, and altered mental status. Some of these events required hospitalization. It is not known if these events were related to SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody use or were due to progression of COVID-19.
You seem to think that the medical community isn't doing what they can. It is. The hospitals are full again and the staff had enough the last time it came to this and so are quitting at an even faster rate. There is NO incentive to skimp on anything that would keep people out of overflowing hospitals. The issue is a LOT of people are unwilling to do the things that would keep themselves from being hospitalized while *****ing about all of it...until it's too late.