Are ventilators killing many COVID-19 patients?
Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell, a doctor treating COVID-19 patients in New York City's Maimonides Medical Center, warns that the medical community may be wrong about the nature of the coronavirus and how it is said to cause acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Transcript from a recent video: In treating these patients, I have witnessed medical phenomena that just don’t make sense in the context of treating a disease that is supposed to be a viral pneumonia. Nine days ago I presume that was opening intensive care unit to treat patients with a virus causing a pneumonia that was ravaging lungs across the world starting out as something mild: cough and a sore throat, and progressively increasing in severity until ultimately ending in something called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome or ARDS. I don’t know the final answer of this disease, but I’m quite sure that the ventilator is not it, that is not to say that we don’t need ventilators. We absolutely need them. They ar...