Corporate Media Is Vomiting Trump Coronavirus Reporting All Over The Bed

[mystery-ak]

Corporate Media Is Vomiting Trump Coronavirus Reporting All Over The Bed

The latest news cycle over President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.

By Joy Pullmann
October 5, 2020

The latest news cycle over President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.

While we are all aware that COVID-19 can be a truly devastating and deadly disease for some, despite the volume of media coverage dedicated to it in the past seven months, the American public still lacks crucial context for understanding Trump’s diagnosis. Not only has major media coverage not brought clarity, but it has also, as usual, obscured reality. This is especially harmful to a story with such significant potential ramifications for the nation and world.

As the president himself has alluded to in his post-diagnosis social media posts, it’s common knowledge that the Wuhan virus hits the elderly especially hard. Trump is 74. Yet even among his age demographic, surviving the disease, not death, is by far the norm.

According to the Centers for Disease Control’s “current best estimate” based on the data so far, of Americans who are ages 70 and older, 94.6 percent who test positive for COVID will survive. Other countries have seen roughly similar survival rates. So the president’s odds are thankfully good.

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[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

February 1, 2018 - Trump medical report:
"Like most men of his age, President Donald Trump has a common form of heart disease, relatively easy to address if he increases the dose of his cholesterol-lowering medication and makes necessary lifestyle changes. Without those changes, the President has a moderate risk of having a heart attack in the next three to five years, according to the Mayo Clinic."

The report above was two years ago so his heart is two years older with more cholesterol congestion of heart vessels and the virus, according to experiments below, may cause damage in the heart.  I consider this problem to be the second major concern of his having the virus.  If he was in my family, these are the two areas I would worry about: 

Concern one - lung damage - breathing problems - hooked to ventilator - live or die.
Concern two - heart vessels already narrowed and virus damage  - heart stops.

When he had a serious breathing problem last Friday (and high fever), was put on a steroid which is used in serious cases and the breathing problem was why he was taken to hospital.  One of his doctors said the above.

"SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Autopsies have found traces of the coronavirus’s genetic material in the heart, and actual viral particles within the heart’s muscle cells. Experiments have found that SARS-CoV-2 can destroy lab-grown versions of those cells. Several studies have now shown that roughly 10 to 30 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had high levels of troponin—a protein released into the blood when the heart’s muscle cells are damaged. Such patients are more likely to die than others with no signs of heart injury."

[PeteS in CA]

Actually, use of the corticosteroid to prevent immune system over-reaction ("Cytokine Storm") and to prevent damage is a standard treatment for Covid-19 patients who are not on ventillation, https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-07-20-dexamethasone-study-shows-promising-results-treating-covid-19-patients , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/health/coronavirus-steroids.html . There was another thread here about it in June, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,405477.0.html , and a post about it in April, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,416275.msg2297408.html#msg2297408 .