If hospitals are overwhelmed, it’s valuable to have a component of the hospital treatment plan for pneumonia on-hand to treat either yourself or others who have it especially bad. One of these is oxygen concentrators, which are not sold out yet and are ~$400 on Amazon. This doesn’t deal with especially severe cases, but for cases which fall in the “shortness of breath, low blood oxygen” class without further medical complications, it’d probably be useful if you can’t or don’t want to go to a hospital due to overload. https://www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-of-severe-acute-respiratory-infection-when-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-is-suspected mentions oxygen treatment as the first thing to do for low blood oxygen levels.
I think I would feel guilty if I bought one of those, and then learned later that they’re sold out, and the people building temporary hospitals can’t get them.
I bought this one online (the cheapest device I could find advertised as capable of pulse flow, which may be important), and it’s going to take about a month to arrive. I suspect this device is manufactured outside the US—if people in the US are having a hard time getting ahold of them quickly because it takes a month to ship them from overseas, I can donate mine.
Due to exponential growth, much of the expected impact of COVID-19 is in April/May/June. I feel pretty comfortable prepping now and sending a market signal that we should ramp up the production of prepping goods.
Good idea. I purchased an oxygen concentrator. However, you might wish to use the device on a low pressure setting (or use it in “pulse” mode instead of “continuous” mode) because I’m hearing some rumors that oxygen therapy can be counterproductive:
Professor Liu Liang also said that if the mucus components are not resolved in the treatment, the use of oxygen alone may not achieve the purpose of treatment, and sometimes even counter-productive, pushing the mucus deeper and wider, aggravating the patient’s hypoxia.
If hospitals are overwhelmed, it’s valuable to have a component of the hospital treatment plan for pneumonia on-hand to treat either yourself or others who have it especially bad. One of these is oxygen concentrators, which are not sold out yet and are ~$400 on Amazon. This doesn’t deal with especially severe cases, but for cases which fall in the “shortness of breath, low blood oxygen” class without further medical complications, it’d probably be useful if you can’t or don’t want to go to a hospital due to overload. https://www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-of-severe-acute-respiratory-infection-when-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-is-suspected mentions oxygen treatment as the first thing to do for low blood oxygen levels.
I think I would feel guilty if I bought one of those, and then learned later that they’re sold out, and the people building temporary hospitals can’t get them.
I bought this one online (the cheapest device I could find advertised as capable of pulse flow, which may be important), and it’s going to take about a month to arrive. I suspect this device is manufactured outside the US—if people in the US are having a hard time getting ahold of them quickly because it takes a month to ship them from overseas, I can donate mine.
Due to exponential growth, much of the expected impact of COVID-19 is in April/May/June. I feel pretty comfortable prepping now and sending a market signal that we should ramp up the production of prepping goods.
Good idea. I purchased an oxygen concentrator. However, you might wish to use the device on a low pressure setting (or use it in “pulse” mode instead of “continuous” mode) because I’m hearing some rumors that oxygen therapy can be counterproductive:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohu.com%2Fa%2F376403787_162522
WHO report indicated that 75% of severe cases only needed oxygen. Only 25% needed forced respiration + suction. So this seems good.