Sunday, March 6, 2020 is when Chuck Todd of Meet the Press stated that 21% of Coronavirus deaths are under 65 years of age and that 48% of all ICU patients are under also under 65, but what is he and the CDC really saying?
What Todd and the CDC are really saying is that 15% of the population (our seniors), represent 79% of all Coronavirus deaths. In other words, Seniors are dying at a 527% rate when compared to those under age 65. These two percentages are not far off of the 2017-2018 U.S. Senior flu epidemic in which 82% of all flu deaths were to Seniors 65 and over.
Just as disturbing is the ICU statistic that 48% of all ICU patients are under 65. This stat could mean that Seniors are not surviving that long in Intensive Care Unit before death, thus allowing younger patients to take their place and stay longer in the ICU when it should be Seniors who would take the longest to win their battle with Coronavirus.
In my opinion, if Seniors are being kept bed bound the entire time they are in the Hospital then they may not be receiving their best chance for survival.
A body afflicted with flu / pneumonia at rest, tends to stay at rest, until death do they part. If these Seniors are not being placed in upright chairs a couple of times a day to reinforce themselves and serve as a form of very very mild exercise, then our Seniors may be more likely to succumb to their flu, pneumonia or virus related illness.
Hospital physical therapists know the truth about using a chair as a form of very mild exercise, but they won't publicize it for fear of losing their jobs and being blacklisted.
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