ventilators

Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York.

The Medicare payments are single lump-sums, therefore, it is incredibly profitable to diagnose those with very light symptoms as COVID-19, give them 30 minutes on a ventilator, send them home, hook up the next patient for 30 minutes, and so-on.

When asked why officials would want to inflate the death statistics, Jensen, a Republican state senator and a medical doctor, said, “Fear is a great way to control people, and I worry about that.”

It doesn’t look like much. In fact, it looks like garbage: a cheap plastic hose inserted into a metal box. But Dr. Rhys Thomas’ invention is worth its weight in gold – and it’s already saving lives. Dr. Thomas, a senior consultant at Glangwili Hospital in Wales, has designed, prototyped and constructed a working ventilator in just three days – a machine of critical importance in fighting COVID–19. Ventilators help patients breathe, a crucial machine in the fight against the respiratory illness that has infected at least 438,000 people worldwide.

Delirium, characterized by severe confusion due to rapid changes in brain function, is running rampant in those staying in hospitals. That such a serious clinical syndrome is now referred to as a “surprising side effect of hospital stays” is beyond incredible.