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No, Not Me!


I just read an article published on 11/17/21 in the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. This piece was co-written by an M.D. (physician) and a J.D.(attorney). The gist of this opinion piece is that unfortunately many hospitals are taking care of Covid patients based on monetary rewards, and not always on what is best for the individual patient. There are a number of alleged “pay-offs” for taking care of Covid patients in certain ways, all of which are not always solely for the patient’s benefit. 

From this article the following is written about remdesivir:

“There are deaths from the government-directed COVID treatments. For remdesivir, studies show that 71–75 percent of patients suffer an adverse effect, and the drug often had to be stopped after five to ten days because of these effects, such as kidney and liver damage, and death. Remdesivir trials during the 2018 West African Ebola outbreak had to be discontinued because death rate exceeded 50%. Yet, in 2020, Anthony Fauci directed that remdesivir was to be the drug hospitals use to treat COVID-19, even when the COVID clinical trials of remdesivir showed similar adverse effects.”

If I were to be hospitalized with Covid, I believe that I would refuse remdesivir, just like I would refuse a ventilator. I have already advised the individual responsible for my medical decision making that under no circumstances, if diagnosed with Covid, would I consent to being put on a ventilator. 

As pointed out in this opinion piece, “in ventilated patients, the death toll is staggering. A National Library of Medicine January 2021 report of 69 studies involving more than 57,000 patients concluded that fatality rates were 45 percent in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, increasing to 84 percent in older patients. Attorney Thomas Renz announced at a Truth for Health Foundation Press Conference that CMS data showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9% percent of all patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.” 

However, dying is not the part that worries me … rather it would be living, living after prolonged being on a ventilator, and my consequent quality of life. A few anecdotal stories about individuals who had spent a significant period of time on a ventilator because of Covid is enough to convince me … No thanks!

12/31/21

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