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US Overtakes China As The Country With The Most Coronavirus Cases – Live Updates

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Summary:

  • Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed
  • New York City hospitals report “apocalyptic” surge in cases
  • US overtakes China as country with the most COVID-19 cases with 81,321 cases
  • Elmhurst Hospital in Queens is overwhelmed with new cases
  • More than 500k volunteers sign up to help the NHS in Britain
  • 500k COVID-19 cases diagnosed
  • Italy reports largest batch of new cases in 5 days
  • Abbott Labs submitted application to FDA for point-of-care test
  • New Orleans hosts major outbreak
  • NJ reports another 2k+ cases, 19 deaths
  • Inmate in Washington DC tests positive
  • NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell tests positive
  • India passes $22.6 billion bailout package
  • Tokyo reports 40 cases for 2nd day in a row
  • A record 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment
  • China bans entry of foreigners
  • 157 more deaths reported in Iran
  • Putin shuts down Moscow, delays vote on constitutional measures
  • Wednesday was deadliest yet in US
  • President Xi calls on nations to improve policy coordination to avoid a recession
  • Mnuchin says he speaks with Powell up to ’30 times a day’

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Update (1835ET): Dr. Birx said Thursday that 86% of tests run in the US so far have been negative, a lower rate than experts had expected. She also listed off a handful of “particularly concerning” counties, like Illinois’ Cook County and Michigan’s Wayne County.

Additionally, Dr. Birx played down some of the more dire predictions, including an Imperial College study that has circulated widely over the last week or so which called for 500k deaths in the UK. Dr. Birx noted that this number has “already been revised down to 20k”.

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Update (1810ET): VP Pence said during Thursday’s press conference that Abbott Labs has applied for a point-of-care test that can be done in a doctor’s office, with results in 15 minutes.

Pence also advised any travelers from New York to “check their health” and “self-isolate” if they’ve traveled elsewhere.

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Update (1800ET): Cuomo praised more New York businesses – in this case, hotels – stepping up to house medical workers or the sick.

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Update (1740ET): In a testament both to the US’s ability to ramp up testing, and the sheer penetration of the novel coronavirus within the US population, the number of confirmed cases in the US has surpassed China to become the largest outbreak in the world.

According to the NYT, at least 81,321 people have been diagnosed in the US, including more than 1,000 deaths, more cases than China and Italy and any other country. As the Times notes, the US is suffering from a shortage of personal protective equipment and ventilators.

As President Trump said during Thursday evening’s press conference, the fact that the US has overtaken China is “a tribute to the amount of testing we’re doing – we’re doing a lot of testing,” Trump said.

He also (again, correctly) pointed out that “you don’t really know” the total scope of the crisis in China, where tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of cases are believed to have gone unreported.

Trump is set to speak with President Xi Thursday night via phone.

Here’s a breakdown of cases by state:

Find more statistics at Statista

Find more statistics at Statista

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Update (1415ET): New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference.

As we mentioned below, New York hospitals have started ‘splitting’ ventilators for patients, as some New York coronavirus patients are staying on ventilators for much longer than doctors had expected. While patients typically spend 3 to 4 days on ventilators with other serious lung ailments, COVID-19 patients are spending as long as 30 days on ventilators in New York, dimming hopes that the state will secure enough machines.

After FEMA promised 400 machines, Cuomo’s complaints convinced VP Pence to increase the allocation to 4,000. But that’s still 26k short of the 30k Cuomo said are needed by hospitals in the state, with Cuomo offering to personally deliver them to the next state that needs them after New York’s apex.

On Thursday, Cuomo reported 100 more fatalities, for a total of 385, as hospitals brace for more. New York City is even deploying refrigerated trailers for use as temporary morgues as the number of bodies overwhelms some hospitals.

“This is the really bad news,” Cuomo said at a news conference Thursday.

Cuomo expressed alarm over the 35% rise in deaths in one day. On Wednesday, he sounded a more hopeful tone.

“The longer they’re on, the more likely they’re not going to come off,” he said. “That is what has happened. We do have people who have been on for quite a period of time, and those are the people we’re losing.”

In New Jersey, COVID-19 cases increased by 2,492 from a day earlier to 6,876, while another 19 deaths brought the state-wide total to 81, Gov. Murphy said.

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Update (1315ET): China’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that beginning on Saturday, all foreign nationals, including those with valid visas and residence permits, will be temporarily barred from entering China as Beijing continues to turn the tables on the US and other western countries that barred Chinese nationals in the wake of the outbreak.

Columbia University will let medical students graduate early so they can help with the coronavirus response efforts in New York, university officials told ABC News.

Chicago’s popular Lakefront Trail was shut down on Thursday, blocking access to the extensive trail and park, after too many people congregated and violated social distancing guidelines, said Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

During Thursday’s press conference, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Congress’ $2 trillion stimulus bill “failed to meet the governmental need”, adding that it does “absolutely nothing for us” in terms of the massive hit to the state’s budget from lost tax revenue, while also not even doing enough to meet the base-level need in New York’s hospitals.

He added that he was “disappointed” that Congress passed such a “reckless” bill at a time of such tremendous need.

“I’m disappointed,” Cuomo said on Thursday. “I find it irresponsible. I find it reckless. Emotion is a luxury. And we don’t have the luxury at this time of being emotional about what they [Congress] did. When this is over, I promise you I’m going to give them a piece of my mind.”

“We don’t have the luxury at this time to be emotional about what they did…when this is over, I’ll give them a piece of my mind. This is an extraordinary time for this nation…this was the time to put politics aside and put partisanship aside.”

The fact that lawmakers aren’t adequately addressing the problem in the areas with the most acute need is almost unconscionable, Cuomo said.

In other news, the new cases reported out of Italy combined with some other new cases reported Thursday morning have delivered the ~20k cases needed to put the global total over 500k, a major milestone in the outbreak.

America Loses 500,000 Millionaires in Coronavirus Pandemic Market Crash

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The drop in the stock market since the coronavirus outbreak began has resulted in huge losses for millionaires in the United States. At the start of the year, there was a record 11 million people in the country with over a million dollars in assets, according to a new study published by research firm Spectrem Group.

However, after the fluctuating losses and gains of the past several weeks, approximately 500,000 people who were on that list are no longer millionaires. While that number is sure to change from day-to-day, it seems safe to assume that when all is said and done there will be fewer millionaires after the pandemic than there were before.

While there are some ripple effects experienced by the general population, the wealthy are most affected by the stock market crash. The top 1 percent of households owned 53.5 percent of equities and mutual fund shares, according to data from the Federal Reserve.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, the world’s 500 richest people have lost nearly $1.3 trillion since the beginning of the year. The nation’s wealthy certainly lost the most money in the past few months, but they had much more to lose, and many of them have private bunkers, or at the very least enough resources to get them through this difficult time.

People who live paycheck to paycheck may not have lost much money in the stock market, but many of them have lost their jobs and fear that they won’t be able to afford to survive in the coming weeks and months. It was reported this week that 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment, shattering previous records.

The Labor Department said in a statement announcing the numbers:

“This marks the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in the history of the seasonally adjusted series. The previous high was 695,000 in October of 1982.”

The United States government has been working to pass a $2 trillion stimulus bill which includes a small payout to some workers, but critics say that the bill has included too much corporate welfare, and not enough cash to the struggling hourly employees who need it the most.

Coronavirus-Crisis: Hundreds of NYPD Cops Test Positive for COVID-19, Thousands Call Out Sick

As New York City becomes a major epicenter for the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, thousands of the city’s police officers are out sick.

At a press conference on Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said that at least 236 members of the NYPD have tested positive for coronavirus and 3,200 additional officers have called out sick.

“We are backfilling patrols where we need to. We are taking on a variety of assignments,” Shae said, according to ABC News.

There are also 84 members of the New York City Fire Department who have tested positive for the virus.

NYPD struggling to supply cops with gloves, masks amid jump in coronavirus cases within force

Growing frustrations continue to increase among first responders over the lack of equipment during the coronavirus outbreak.

Posted by Fox News Video on Wednesday, March 25, 2020

People who are working in many industries in the United States currently don’t have access to proper protective equipment even though they are still dealing with the public during a pandemic.

In many cases, this causes workers in these positions to become sick themselves and pass the illness on to the many people they come into contact with. This is especially true for healthcare workers and police.

Last week, Richard Prado tweeted a video showing multiple police and rescue workers in New York dealing with a man who had suddenly collapsed on the subway after loudly gasping for air.

It is not clear what the man’s condition is or if he was infected with the coronavirus, but the crew that was working with him did not seem to have any kind of gear to protect them.

Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that 300 non-violent, elderly inmates will be released from Riker’s Island Prison, to help prevent the spread of a growing outbreak at the facility.

“We want to identify anyone in those categories and get them released immediately,” the mayor said, according to The Hill.

Only inmates who meet certain conditions will be released. These conditions include having serious pre-existing health conditions and less than one year remaining on their sentence. Inmates who were charged with sexual assault or domestic violence will not be eligible for release.

By John Vibes | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

New York Hospital Giving Coronavirus Patients Massive Amounts of Vitamin C After Promising Results From China

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As New York state’s hospital system faces an unprecedented surge of sick coronavirus patients, some doctors have reportedly found success in improving their symptoms through the application of massive Vitamin C doses.

The administering of 1,500 milligrams of intravenous Vitamin C is over 16 times the recommended dietary allowance of the antioxidant, but has resulted in patients treated with the vitamin faring “significantly” better than those patients who aren’t receiving the treatment, reports the New York Post.

According to pulmonologist and critical-care specialist Dr. Andrew G. Weber, who is affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, intensive-care patients infected with the novel virus are immediately administered the massive dosage when they arrive in ICU. The powerful vitamin C dosage is re-administered intravenously three or four times per day, he added.

Weber explained that the inspiration for the treatment comes after doctors in Shanghai, China, also used it.

Weber told the Post:

“The patients who received Vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get Vitamin C.

It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.”

The Vitamin C is administered along with medicines including the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as well as the antibiotic azithromycin, various biologics and blood thinners, Weber added.

While there is no scientific research that supports the use of high doses of Vitamin C in the treatment of CoViD-19, intravenous Vitamin C has long been used by some doctors to treat cold and flu symptoms.

According to a study published in 1999, “Overall, reported flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased 85% compared with the control group after the administration of megadose Vitamin C.”

The study concluded:

“Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population compared with the control group.”

Weber said that coronavirus patients see dramatic falls in their levels of Vitamin C when they suffer sepsis, the lethal inflammatory response to CoViD-19 infection.

He added:

“It makes all the sense in the world to try and maintain this level of Vitamin C.”

Clinical trials of the treatment began February 14 at Zhongnan Hospital in Wuhan, China, where the disease rapidly emerged last December. The study is expected to run through the end of September after which study findings will be published.

On Tuesday, hospitals in New York were granted permission from federal authorities to use a mixture of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat severely ill patients on the basis of “compassionate care.”


President Trump has tweeted that the cocktail has “a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine,” despite health officials urging caution about treating the drug as some panacea prior to rigorous clinical studies.

However, some experts have cautioned that the experimental intravenous treatment’s ability to fight off pneumonia remains unproven.

“Although vitamin C does have some small effect on the common cold, it’s unlikely that taking large amounts of vitamin C supplements will cure a COVID-19 infection—or have a large effect at all,” Peter McCaffery, professor of biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen, wrote in the Conversation.

Carol DerSarkissian, MD told MedicineNet:

“Your immune system does need Vitamin C to work right. But extra won’t help you avoid a cold. It may make it go away faster or not feel as bad—if you were taking it before you got sick.”

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

Young Italian Nurse, Kills Herself After Catching Coronavirus, Fearing She Had Infected Others

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Italy is in mourning after a young nurse working in an intensive care unit dealing with the nightmarish coronavirus pandemic took her own life after she contracted the disease, a nursing federation confirmed.

Daniela Trezzi, 34, had been dealing with intense stress due to her frontline work in the European epicenter of the novel virus. However, when she contracted the disease on March 10, she became preoccupied with the possibility that she had already spread the virus to her colleagues at the San Gerardo Hospital in the city of Monza, which is located in the hard-hit Lombardy region.

On Tuesday, the National Federation of Nurses of Italy (Federazione Nazionale Ordini Professioni Infermieritich) announced that Trezzi had taken her own life this past Sunday. Trezzi had reportedly informed a colleague that she was scared and concerned that she had infected somebody with the virus, Pulzo reports.

In a press statement, the federation said:

“We express our pain and consternation over the suicide of our young colleague. Our 450,000 professionals will join together around the relatives and family of Daniela.”

San Gerardo Hospital Director Mario Aparone also expressed his regret over Trezzi’s death, noting that the relevant authorities would investigate the case.

Tragically, the National Federation of Nurses revealed that this wasn’t the first such case of a nurse taking their own life as a similar incident had happened mere days ago in Venice. The federation said:

“We are at risk of suffering these stressful conditions and a shortage of medical personnel, but this cannot be commented on now.”

According to the most recent data from Italian health authorities, the country now has at least 69,176 cases of coronavirus and 6,820 deaths—close to double the amount of fatalities registered in China where the novel virus first emerged last December. However, the Italian Civil Protection Agency, which is charged with collating the data, believes that the infections could be as high as 700,000. Agency chief Angelo Borrelli told La Repubblica newspaper that “a ratio of one certified case out of every 10 is credible.”

The Northern Italian region of Lombardy has borne the brunt of the pandemic, with the death toll rising by roughly 296 in a single day to at least 4,474 on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

Amid the crisis, medics have been saddled with the gut-wrenching responsibility of choosing which patients live or die due to the lack of ventilators and hospital beds. Meanwhile, at least 18 doctors have succumbed to CoViD-19 in Italy alone.

Since the outbreak of the novel virus, aid and medical experts have also poured into Northern Italy from China, Cuba, Russia, and the United States in a sort of geopolitical tug-of-war over who can provide the most aid to the struggling Mediterranean nation.

Grandmother, Age 95, Becomes Oldest Woman in Italy to Recover From Coronavirus

In a stunning example of how wherever there’s life, there’s hope, a 95-year-old Italian grandmother has become the oldest known woman in the country to recover from coronavirus.

Alma Clara Corsini arrived at the Pavulo Hospital in the northern province of Modena on March 5 after suffering from symptoms of the deadly disease.

She was among Italy’s nearly 60,000 people confirmed to have the virus as of Sunday. The country’s north has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic.

However, doctors and specialists have been working hard across the country and tended to Corsini throughout her ordeal, making her the first person in Modena to recover from the novel virus.

Earlier in the week, she confirmed:

“Yes, yes, I’m fine … They were good people who looked after me well.”

ASPETTANDO L'ALBA

“Raccontiamoci quanto di bello la vita ci offre, e ci può offrire, anche in questo momento. Io comincio con la storia della nonna Alma Clara Corsini…”Inviateci e postate dei video, o anche delle fotografie, che abbiano un messaggio POSITIVO e di SPERANZA con #aspettandolalba e #LeParole (così li possiamo trovare).#aspettandolalba #LeParole#speranza

Posted by Massimo Gramellini on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Gazzetta Di Modena reports that she was able to make a healthy recovery without any need for “antiviral therapy,” while her body showed a “great reaction” despite the infection.

Corsini’s good fortune was even shared by Pope Francis, who took to Facebook to post an image of her with members of the medical team that saved her. In the post, the high pontiff wrote:

“In Italy, a 95-year-old granny is the first patient to be cured of coronavirus. Alma Clara Corsini has won this battle for her life to give us hope.”

IMAGEN VIRAL. En Italia un abuelita de 95 años es el primer paciente curado de Coronavirus. Alma Clara Corsini vive ha…

Posted by Papa Francisco on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Corsini has since been discharged from the hospital and is back at her home in Fanano.

Over the weekend, no less than 1,400 people died in Italy as the country races to control the horrific spread of the novel virus.

All movement has now been banned inside the country and non-essential businesses shuttered as the country continues to stand firmly as the epicenter of the global crisis, exceeding China’s death toll last week despite its smaller population.

Over 6,500 Italians test positive for Covid-19 every day, with the average age of those dying standing at 78.5 years.

On Sunday, an additional 651 Italians died, bringing the death toll to at least 5,400.

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

“Genius” Doctor Turns One Ventilator Into Nine Using DIY Hacks From YouTube Video – Elon Musk Interested

As health care facilities across the globe continue to grapple with a general shortage of supplies to help them with the devastating coronavirus pandemic, one doctor in Canada has managed to use a bit of creativity, ingenuity, and an idea inspired by YouTube to help future patients.

Dr. Alain Gaithier, an anesthetist at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital in Ontario, was worried about the possibility that his rural hospital’s one ventilator would hardly be able to carry the load that the CoViD-19 outbreak could entail.

So Gauthier, who has a Ph. D. in respiratory mechanics, borrowed an idea conceived by American doctors Greg Neyman and Charlene Babcock in 2006 to double the capacity of a single ventilator. According to CBC the idea was tested successfully following the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Babcock eventually created a how-to video explaining how the DIY “upgrade” works.

In just ten minutes, Gauthier used extra tubing to double the number of patients that could be ventilated at the hospital.

The way the system works is that the two patients simultaneously connected to the ventilator must be roughly the same size and with the same lung capacity. Multiple hoses are then attached to the one ventilator, which is then run at several times its normal power.

While imperfect, Gauthier said that “if it comes to last resort, I’m prepared to use it.”

Gauthier’s colleague, Alan Drummond, excitedly shared images of the rigged ventilator on Twitter, jokingly calling Gauthier “an evil genius.” He wrote:

“So in ten minutes the evil genius who is one of our GP anesthetists (with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics) increased our rural hospitals ventilator capacity from one to nine!!!”

Drummond, an emergency physician at the hospital, also said that he broke social distancing protocol to give his colleague a big hug.

Even billionaire tycoon Elon Musk expressed his admiration at Gauthier’s efforts, commenting in a the tweet that it was an “interesting thread.”

Continuing, Musk noted that perhaps it could one day lead to a more effective system to ensure that patients breathe. He added:

“A single computer, pump & pressure accumulator would be fine for many patients, but ideally individual valves per patient to personalize care & avoid cross-flow risk.”

However, for Gauthier his newfound fame is the last thing that concerns him in a rural region where many of the 60,000 people served by the hospital are older or have such conditions as diabetes and chronic pulmonary disease.

He also doesn’t want credit for his invention.

“A lot of work is being done by pretty much everyone,” he stressed.

Like many health care systems struggling with the outbreak, Gauthier and his coworkers worry that they soon may be forced to choose which critical patients receive a ventilator and which are simply allowed to die—a dilemma that he hopes to avoid with his Gerry-rigged system.

“We are concerned, we’re trying to get ready as much as possible,” Gauthier said.

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

Grandmother, Age 95, Becomes Oldest Woman in Italy to Recover From Coronavirus

By
hqanon
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In a stunning example of how wherever there’s life, there’s hope, a 95-year-old Italian grandmother has become the oldest known woman in the country to recover from coronavirus.

Alma Clara Corsini arrived at the Pavulo Hospital in the northern province of Modena on March 5 after suffering from symptoms of the deadly disease.

She was among Italy’s nearly 60,000 people confirmed to have the virus as of Sunday. The country’s north has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic.

However, doctors and specialists have been working hard across the country and tended to Corsini throughout her ordeal, making her the first person in Modena to recover from the novel virus.

Earlier in the week, she confirmed:

“Yes, yes, I’m fine … They were good people who looked after me well.”

ASPETTANDO L'ALBA

“Raccontiamoci quanto di bello la vita ci offre, e ci può offrire, anche in questo momento. Io comincio con la storia della nonna Alma Clara Corsini…”Inviateci e postate dei video, o anche delle fotografie, che abbiano un messaggio POSITIVO e di SPERANZA con #aspettandolalba e #LeParole (così li possiamo trovare).#aspettandolalba #LeParole#speranza

Posted by Massimo Gramellini on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Gazzetta Di Modena reports that she was able to make a healthy recovery without any need for “antiviral therapy,” while her body showed a “great reaction” despite the infection.

Corsini’s good fortune was even shared by Pope Francis, who took to Facebook to post an image of her with members of the medical team that saved her. In the post, the high pontiff wrote:

“In Italy, a 95-year-old granny is the first patient to be cured of coronavirus. Alma Clara Corsini has won this battle for her life to give us hope.”

IMAGEN VIRAL. En Italia un abuelita de 95 años es el primer paciente curado de Coronavirus. Alma Clara Corsini vive ha…

Posted by Papa Francisco on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Corsini has since been discharged from the hospital and is back at her home in Fanano.

Over the weekend, no less than 1,400 people died in Italy as the country races to control the horrific spread of the novel virus.

All movement has now been banned inside the country and non-essential businesses shuttered as the country continues to stand firmly as the epicenter of the global crisis, exceeding China’s death toll last week despite its smaller population.

Over 6,500 Italians test positive for Covid-19 every day, with the average age of those dying standing at 78.5 years.

On Sunday, an additional 651 Italians died, bringing the death toll to at least 5,400.

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

“Genius” Doctor Turns One Ventilator Into Nine Using DIY Hacks From YouTube Video – Elon Musk Interested

As health care facilities across the globe continue to grapple with a general shortage of supplies to help them with the devastating coronavirus pandemic, one doctor in Canada has managed to use a bit of creativity, ingenuity, and an idea inspired by YouTube to help future patients.

Dr. Alain Gaithier, an anesthetist at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital in Ontario, was worried about the possibility that his rural hospital’s one ventilator would hardly be able to carry the load that the CoViD-19 outbreak could entail.

So Gauthier, who has a Ph. D. in respiratory mechanics, borrowed an idea conceived by American doctors Greg Neyman and Charlene Babcock in 2006 to double the capacity of a single ventilator. According to CBC the idea was tested successfully following the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Babcock eventually created a how-to video explaining how the DIY “upgrade” works.

In just ten minutes, Gauthier used extra tubing to double the number of patients that could be ventilated at the hospital.

The way the system works is that the two patients simultaneously connected to the ventilator must be roughly the same size and with the same lung capacity. Multiple hoses are then attached to the one ventilator, which is then run at several times its normal power.

While imperfect, Gauthier said that “if it comes to last resort, I’m prepared to use it.”

Gauthier’s colleague, Alan Drummond, excitedly shared images of the rigged ventilator on Twitter, jokingly calling Gauthier “an evil genius.” He wrote:

“So in ten minutes the evil genius who is one of our GP anesthetists (with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics) increased our rural hospitals ventilator capacity from one to nine!!!”

Drummond, an emergency physician at the hospital, also said that he broke social distancing protocol to give his colleague a big hug.


Even billionaire tycoon Elon Musk expressed his admiration at Gauthier’s efforts, commenting in a the tweet that it was an “interesting thread.”

Continuing, Musk noted that perhaps it could one day lead to a more effective system to ensure that patients breathe. He added:

“A single computer, pump & pressure accumulator would be fine for many patients, but ideally individual valves per patient to personalize care & avoid cross-flow risk.”

However, for Gauthier his newfound fame is the last thing that concerns him in a rural region where many of the 60,000 people served by the hospital are older or have such conditions as diabetes and chronic pulmonary disease.

He also doesn’t want credit for his invention.

“A lot of work is being done by pretty much everyone,” he stressed.

Like many health care systems struggling with the outbreak, Gauthier and his coworkers worry that they soon may be forced to choose which critical patients receive a ventilator and which are simply allowed to die—a dilemma that he hopes to avoid with his Gerry-rigged system.

“We are concerned, we’re trying to get ready as much as possible,” Gauthier said.

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

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