may be doing more harm than good <\/strong>with some patients. The ventilators themselves, due to the high-pressure methods they are running, may be damaging the lungs and leading to widespread harm of patients.<\/p>\nDr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell describes himself as an \u201cER and critical care doctor\u201d for NYC. \u201cIn these nine days I have seen things I have never seen before,\u201d he says. Before publishing his video, we confirmed that Dr. Kyle-Sidell is an emergency medicine physician in Brooklyn and is affiliated with the Maimonides Medical Center located in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
In his video (see below), he goes on to warn the world that the entire approach to treating COVID-19 may be incorrect, and that the disease is something completely different from what the dogmatic medical establishment is claiming.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn treating these patients, I have witnessed medical phenomena that just don\u2019t make sense in the context of treating a disease that is supposed to be a viral pneumonia,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
He talks about how he opened a critical care using expecting to be treating patients with a viral pneumonia infection that would progress into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). But that the disease acted nothing like ARDS<\/strong>. \u201cThis is the paradigm that every hospital in the country is working under,\u201d he warns. \u201cAnd yet, everything I\u2019ve seen in the last nine days, all the things that just don\u2019t make sense, the patients I\u2019m seeing in front of me, the lungs I\u2019m trying to improve, have led me to believe that COVID-19 is not this disease, and that we are operating under a medical paradigm that is untrue.\u201d<\/p>\nMore from Dr. Kyle-Sidell: (emphasis added)<\/p>\n
In short, I believe we are treating the wrong disease, and I fear that this misguided treatment will lead to a tremendous amount of harm to a great number of people in a very short time\u2026 I feel compelled to give this information out.<\/em><\/p>\nCOVID-19 lung disease, as far as I can see, is not a pneumonia and should not be treated as one. Rather, it appears as if some kind of viral-induced disease most resembling high altitude sickness. <\/strong>Is it as if tens of thousands of my fellow New Yorkers are on a plane at 30,000 feet at the cabin pressure is slowly being let out. These patients are slowly being starved of oxygen<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\nAnd while [patients] absolutely look like patients on the brink of death, they do not look like patients dying from pneumonia\u2026 I suspect that the patients I\u2019m seeing in front of me, look as if a person was dropped off on the top of Mt. Everest without time to acclimate.<\/em><\/p>\nHe goes on to explain that ventilators, in some cases, may be doing far more harm than good.<\/p>\n
When we treat people with ARDS, we typically use ventilators to treat respiratory failure. But these patients\u2019 muscles work fine. I fear that if we are using a false paradigm to treat a new disease, then the method that we program [into] the ventilator, one based on respiratory failure as opposed to oxygen failure, that this method being widely adopted \u2026 aims to increase pressure on the lungs in order to open them up, is actually doing more harm than good<\/strong>, and that the pressure we are providing to lungs, we may be providing to lungs that cannot take it. And that the ARDS that we are seeing, may be nothing more than lung injury caused by the ventilator<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\nThere are hundreds of thousands of lungs in this country at risk.<\/em><\/p>\nIn other words, the real disease appears to cause oxygen deprivation in victims, not pneumonia<\/strong>. This is critically important for all the obvious reasons, and it raises huge questions about the origins of the coronavirus and whether there is some additional external factor beyond the virus that may be causing a combined<\/em> effect that results in severe oxygen deprivation.<\/p>\nWatch the full video here:<\/p>\n
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