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How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?

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    Axtremus
    wrote on 5 Apr 2020, 22:06 last edited by
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    What’s the protocol there?
    Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long?

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    • A Axtremus
      5 Apr 2020, 22:06

      What’s the protocol there?
      Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long?

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      Jolly
      wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 01:45 last edited by Jolly 4 Jun 2020, 01:45
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      @Axtremus said in How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?:

      What’s the protocol there?
      Are bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients considered a high risk vector? For how long?

      High risk. If doing an autopsy (and it would be easier to throw a cat in a bathtub than to get an average path to post a known COVID patient), the lungs or body fluids would be infectious. I assume as long as you have fluids, you have potential for disease transmittal.

      If I was going to make a guess, I'd say that the nurses pull the tubes, disinfect everything as much as possible, bag the body in a leakproof bag and the family cremates the body ASAP.

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        George K
        wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 11:45 last edited by
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        Slightly off-topic.

        the nurses pull the tubes

        I never understood the thinking behind that, other than for aesthetics should the family want to see the deceased - I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.

        Can you think of another reason?

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          Jolly
          wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 11:57 last edited by
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          I don't have a clue. That's just the way I've generally seen it done.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          • G George K
            6 Apr 2020, 11:45

            Slightly off-topic.

            the nurses pull the tubes

            I never understood the thinking behind that, other than for aesthetics should the family want to see the deceased - I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.

            Can you think of another reason?

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            Copper
            wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 15:00 last edited by
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            @George-K said in How are the bodies of diseased COVID-19 patients handled?:

            I imagine seeing a froth-filled endotracheal tube and an NG tube full of black-ish stuff would be jarring.

            Hemophobia

            Blood is scary

            For some people

            https://www.healthline.com/health/hemophobia

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              mark
              wrote on 6 Apr 2020, 15:19 last edited by
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              Maybe clean up the tube a little, let them see the body through glass, the off to the crematorium.

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