CPR is Safe during “pandemic”

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CNN —

Everything you've heard of late tells you to avoid close contact with strangers, especially the elderly, during the pandemic.

Is it safe to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to try to save his life? Or are you risking being infected with the novel coronavirus or giving it to a dying man?

There's an answer: It's strongly encouraged that people perform CPR or chest compressions on others during the global pandemic, according to a report published by a group of Seattle emergency room physicians in the journal Circulation.

In fact, you may actually be hundreds of times more likely to save the dying man's life than you are to die from COVID-19 by coming to his aid.

From January 1 through April 15, emergency medical services in King County, Washington (which includes Seattle) responded to 1,067 cases of cardiac arrests occurring outside of a hospital setting. Once those patients made it to the hospital, less than 10% of them were diagnosed with COVID-19.

From there, the researchers also made their CPR safety calculation by cross-referencing a would-be rescuer's own risk of ultimately dying from their own act of compassion.

"Given a 1% mortality for COVID-19, approximately 1 rescuer might die in 10,000 bystander CPR events," the researchers wrote. "By comparison, bystander CPR saves more than 300 additional lives among 10,000 patients with (out-of-hospital cardiac arrest)."

https://www.wmur.com/article/see-someone-collapse-near-you-it-s-still-safe-to-perform-cpr-during-the-pandemic-study-says/32820597

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Peter Navaro said today, that the Corona was developed by China, released by China. When asked by Jake Tapper if it was done INTENTIONALLY, Navaro responded that it was an " OPEN QUESTION " because the Chinese Communist Party will not allow investigators into the country. Navaro said it didn't matter how it was released, China did it, China hid it for two months, and it has damaged the American economy, and killed thousands of Americans. 

 

No shit. Fat bastid at the woodpile told ya' that, four months ago.