Coronavirus: American Author Whose Dad Is An ICU Doctor Treating Coronavirus Explains What The Virus Does To Its Victim
Bess Kalb, an American bestselling author of ‘Nobody Will Tell You This But Me’, has narrated her father’s firsthand experience while treating Coronavirus patients as an ICU doctor.
The lady in a series of tweets on Sunday said her dad has recorded more unprecedented health issues in COVID-19 patients than what he ever experienced in his years of practice.
The screenwriter went ahead to give details of how the virus operates in man, saying young patients usually die from “cytokine storm” at a time when they think they are recovering.
Bess wrote;
My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more ‘I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this’ records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like ‘sticking your finger in an electric socket.’ Stay home.
She revealed that;
He (her dad) had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s fucking mystifying and brutal.
Young, healthy people are dying from a COVID-19 effect called a “cytokine storm.” Basically, you make it off a ventilator (maybe!), you get your appetite back a little, you think you’re turning a corner, and then your immune system rips through your lung tissue and you drown.
She went on to beg people to stay at home and stop joking with the virus.
Read full narration below;
My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more “I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this” records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like “sticking your finger in an electric socket.” Stay home.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
He had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s fucking mystifying and brutal.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
EIGHT. Eight blood transfusions.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
If you are lucky enough to make it off a ventilator (the equivalent exertion required for that is running a marathon without training), you will likely get put on dialysis and a feeding tube next. It’s a nightmare. It’s hell. It’s what you’re risking on your beach day.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
Young, healthy people are dying from a COVID-19 effect called a “cytokine storm.” Basically, you make it off a ventilator (maybe!), you get your appetite back a little, you think you’re turning a corner, and then your immune system rips through your lung tissue and you drown.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
The other common way young people are falling off the face of the earth from this are the random strokes it causes. Talking one minute, stroking out the next, and then the nurses have to go through the cell phone to find “Dad” because “Mom” usually insists on coming.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
We won’t know the body count for a long time because so many young people are dying at home and not being entered into an official tally. You feel fine, you get a little cough, MAYBE you go to the doctor, you get sent home (“you’re young!”), you recover, you take a turn, goodbye.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 4, 2020
Even if it doesn’t happen to you and you’re just a carrier, since you’re spreading it, it could happen to a buddy, or to a stranger who walks by you, or someone who brushes up against something you touched. This is a once in a lifetime emergency and your boredom can be lethal.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 4, 2020
She hopes that her Twitter message will encourage everyone to stay at home and observe proper hygiene.
