The Gaspasser's Son

[Jolly]

Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.

The young man is 19.

Novel virus, indeed...

[jon-nyc]

Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?

That's a Dr.K question...

[Loki]

Both are hospitalized. What are the odds? Points to something.

[George K]

@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:

@jon-nyc said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Wow. What are the chances he comes off ECMO with the same lungs he went on with?

That's a Dr.K question...

No clue. Our place didn't do ECMO - we were too small.

[Mik]

Awful.

[taiwan_girl]

Wow! Hope they are able to get better with minimum side affects.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Loki said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Both are hospitalized. What are the odds? Points to something.

I've had a completely unsubstantiated-by-any-scientific-data suspicion that there's a genetic component to who gets really sick with this virus, admittedly based on nothing more than reading stuff on the internet about multiple family members getting really sick.

[Horace]

The blood type effect all but confirmed as far as I'm aware. Maybe there are other genetic components. Maybe even some very rare but very dangerous ones.

[Aqua Letifer]

Are they not applying some kind of big data analysis on the worst cases to try to figure this out? I realize it requires extensive testing to even get the data set, let alone the analysis, but c'mon. Global pandemic.

[Doctor Phibes]

I wish I knew what my blood type is.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Gaspasser's Son:

I wish I knew what my blood type is.

Dude, get a test!

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Gaspasser's Son:

I wish I knew what my blood type is.

Donate, they will test for covid and give you results, including your type.

[Doctor Phibes]

They won't take my blood as they're scared of Mad Cow disease.

It strikes me that it's a bit late for that, but anyway....

I've probably got my blood type documented somewhere, but I don't know where.

[Mik]

I asked my doctor and they did not know. Even though I have had surgery in recent years.

[Axtremus]

@Copper said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Donate, they will test for covid and give you results, including your type.

I donated whole blood at a Red Cross facility recently. I don't think they test my blood for COVID-19, or if they do, they haven't say anything about testing my blood for COVID-19 with me.

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.

Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Axtremus said in The Gaspasser's Son:

@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.

Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.

+1. It's terrible they're so young, too.

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in The Gaspasser's Son:

@Jolly said in The Gaspasser's Son:

Anesthesiologist who used to work in town and has since moved back to South Louisiana, has two of his college-aged sons hospitalised with COVID. They transferred one of them this weekend for ECMO treatment.

Sorry that this wretched disease has hit your friend's sons.

Not a friend. We worked at different hospitals and as the old saying goes "I don't know him, but I know of him". I heard about his boys from a retired surgeon I know.

[Copper]

https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-antibody-testing.html