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These patients still need the care and monitoring you'd get in an ICU, and there's zero indication the "medical establishment" is opposed to it - high-flow oxygen is used regularly in hospitals in a variety of scenarios.


define care and monitoring.

- care, like taking the drugs they have been prescribed and regularly take at home? Any family member can do that.

- monitoring that the saturation does not fall too low... so that patients can be intubated with a 90% risk of death? I'd rather opt out of that one.

To be clear, I'm talking about de-medicalizing covid: no ICU, no hospital. Just O2 nasal canula at home.

It seems unimaginable, but a large number of in the world deal with no hospital healthcare.




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