Cytokine Storm Did Not Kill COVID-19 Patients
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Cytokine Storm Did Not Kill COVID-19 Patients
Study shows secondary bacterial pneumonia key factor in ventilated COVID-19 deaths
A new analysis of COVID-19 patients who required mechanical ventilation found that nearly half of them also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was more likely to be fatal than the COVID-19 infection itself.
Although COVID-19 was the reason these patients were hospitalized, the infection that developed after they were placed on a ventilator was more likely to be fatal if it did not respond to treatment.
The study also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a "cytokine storm," which is believed to be the leading cause of death.
From the study author:
"Those who were cured of their secondary pneumonia were likely to live, while those whose pneumonia did not resolve were more likely to die."
“Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that."
"The term 'cytokine storm' means an overwhelming inflammation that drives organ failure in your lungs, your kidneys, your brain and other organs."
"If that were true, if cytokine storm were underlying the long length of stay we see in patients with COVID-19, we would expect to see frequent transitions to states that are characterized by multi-organ failure. That's not what we saw."
"The relatively long length of stay among patients with COVID-19 is primarily due to prolonged respiratory failure, placing them at higher risk of VAP."
Summary
Secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19.
Those who were cured of their secondary pneumonia were likely to live, while those whose pneumonia did not resolve were more likely to die.
Secondary bacterial pneumonia may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself.
No evidence that COVID-19 causes a ‘cytokine storm.’
These are interesting findings that once again contradict the official narrative. The infection brought on by the use of a ventilator was more likely to be the cause of death.
It’s important to note that ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an issue for anyone using a ventilator for an extended period of time.
One thing that can be done to reduce the risk of developing VAP is prophylactic antibiotics — which were actively discouraged early on by health authorities.
The worst part is that the role of bacterial infection in the poor outcomes of viral respiratory infections was already fully understood. A 2008 paper found that the vast majority of influenza deaths in 1918 were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia.
19-year-old Simone Scott, freshman at Northwestern University, had her 2nd dose of Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine on May 1, 2021 She developed myocarditis, had a heart transplant which lasted 1 week, and died on June 11, 2021.
Cytokine Storm Did Not Kill COVID-19 Patients
My daughter contracted H1N1 when it appeared in 2009. She ended up almost dying of the secondary infection, bacterial pneumonia but, was saved by proper treatment,...intermittent periods of oxygen, Tamiflu, 3 different IV antibiotics (can't remember which ones) and in the first 2 days regular clearing of fluid in her lungs achieved by sitting her and holding her on the side of the bed, leaning over a pail as nurses forcefully patted her back to bring fluid up. Within 2 days, she turned the corner toward recovery and is healthy. The H1N1 was the precursor but, it was inconsequential in terms of what affected her the most.
What was done in the case of C-19 was criminal. I am grateful the hospital, doctors and nurses were allowed to use tried and true treaments in those days and were not coersed, bribed and censored in at that time, to adhere to a narrative that was on the path to destroy entire populations in the name of a global experiment on humanity aimed at filling the pockets of Big Pharma and expanding complete dictatorship through government control.
I pray people will turn off TV's, open their eyes to truth and say "no more"!!!
Thanks for dispelling the Cytokine storm; it was one of last things I still believed. Here in Canada in the province of Ontario we had some of Worst death rates in the western world. It was horrific, deaths from dehydration and starvation and we never would have known except they had to call in the military who let the cat out of the bag. Now, of course the government s made lots of promises how they were going to build more LTC and train and staff at higher levels. All lies, they were reelected and very little has changed and it's gone down the memory hole. The cover up is nuclear grade propaganda. The kind you used to see only around wars is now used for any and every purpose the ruling classes decree and the lumpenproletariat plebes are still easily distracted.