r/nursing - what are the worst COVID patient “last moments alive stories” you have?
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This post collected a few of the standouts: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/sxxpo6

edit: I also compiled the bad ones into this three-part, 27k word copypasta for plague rats so you can ask them which one they want to be: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortBadgerton/comments/sy95px/rnursing_what_are_the_worst_covid_patient_last/hxwi4dc/

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Pregnant woman on 10L and her fetus died of myocarditis from covid. She was there for a week knowing the fetus had died and she just kept getting sicker. She started going into DIC so we had to intubate her and deliver her baby stillborn. She ended up dying on the tube.

    Imagine a machine that kicks any anti-masker or anti-vaxxer in the head whenever it detects movement. What a utopian fucking machine.

    • Parent [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Jesus Christ that story is grim.

      So I just searched for "covid myocarditis" to get some numbers and the first couple hits are about myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines. Anyway, according to the CDC myocarditis occurs in about 150 in every 100k people who get covid 19. The usual number is only 9 in 100k for people to get myocarditis. For the mRNA vaccine there's been 1991 reported cases out of 192,405,448 people who received a dose which comes out to 1 in 100k.