Friend fighting for life

[Katyjane12]

My friend, healthy 38 year old man, has had a fever of over 40 degrees since Sunday and very sick but could not be admitted to hospital because temperature was not at 41. Wednesday morning was struggling to breathe - his wife called an ambulance - it took 5 hours to get to him. Central London. The paramedics said is likely covid but because his oxygen was ok they still wouldn't take him to hospital. He nearly died last night - the ambulance finally took him to hospital early this morning and he is now in ICU under general anaesthetic hooked up to machines and fighting for his life. This is a healthy young man. Please please isolate - this thing is very real and randomly lethal.

IIRC there have been some reports of drug trials showing some success when the infection is in the earlier stages.

Remdesivir .. Is the one you'll be refering to and yes, it has shown some effect and futher trials are underway.

BUT the problem is it's a broad sprectum anti-viral that works on preventing the virus from replication or multiplying, so it has to be given very earlry on in the infection, by the time someone is admitted to the ICU its no use!

Other drugs are being assesed and experments are under way..

Gosh that's weird. I was sent to hospital when I had fever of 40.5 I think (11 yrs ago, btw).

@GaaaaarlicBread .. I’m so terribly sorry for your loss 💖
Take care xx

I can’t believe there are people who think there aren’t high numbers of patients hospitalised with covid in London
If you live under a rock please don’t try and share an opinion, in the current state of affairs such misinformation will only contribute to others deaths.

I'm pretty angry at how slow the government and media have been to show how serious this can be for younger people.
Really hoping for him OP.

How is he? Where abouts in uk is he from

"A lot of people think they've had it as well because they had a sore throat and a cough for a few days, no, you had a bug, 98% are symptomatic to the point it has a significant impact"
Chinese study indicates that 100% of infected have symptoms -nobody has it without knowing. Longest symptom free period was 21 days - during which time patient spread the disease.

PeterWeg that is interesting. I have found the celebrities popping up saying they barely had symptoms in contrast. Why would that be do you think?

(Felt like CV had good pr but doubt it’s that organised).

Chinese study indicates that 100% of infected have symptoms -nobody has it without knowing.

Surely there's a pretty obvious problem with this study.

Chinese study indicates that 100% of infected have symptoms -nobody has it without knowing.

Guess Idris Elba wasn't in that study then He tested positive days ago and STILL doesn't have any symptoms

There was a woman on that cruise ship who was asymptomatic who tested positive.

Even the Abels thought they didn’t have it until they tested positive. Though she was coughing, but only sporadically, and blamed it on the dry cabin air.

I heard on tv they think 40% of the UK population who contract it will be asymptomatic.

Chinese study indicates that 100% of infected have symptoms -nobody has it without knowing

Then the study is wrong and they didnt use the correct parameters- there ARE people with no symptoms who are spreading it- they've talked about it in the media. Idris Elba is one, the super spreader in Brighton is another

How is the friend in question is he ok has he RIP has he been tested. Hope hes ok

...the super spreader in Brighton is another

HE HAD SYMPTOMS

Look it up! He merely felt a bit grotty not terrible. So he went to expensive hol he had booked & other planned social occasions. He had a cough, took painkillers, soldiered on. The idea that there are lots of undetected people with zero cough/fever running around making zillions of the rest of us ill is scaremongering. It didn't happen.

Patient 31 in South Korea, their super-spreader: she had symptoms for over a week. She just thought she was run down & refused to be tested when her fever was detected after a minor car accident at start of the week.

I hope your friend is improving

How is your friend? Hope he is recovering

Is there any news ?