Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:17PM (#29826401)

Muscle aches, chest pain, headache, and severe coughing fits that won't let her sleep and scare me when I hear them from the other room. After being awake for two days and one of them dropping her blood oxygen to 87 I made her go to the emergency room where they gave her prescription cough medicine that finally let her sleep.

Omicron is less dangerous than Delta. It's still dangerous.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by tluyben2 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:28PM (#29826577)

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Everyone is shouting in the media (including here) Omicron is upper tract instead of lower so I had hoped you wouldn't get oxygen drops that low or lung related chest pains. Maybe I misunderstood what these things mean although some renowned newspapers here explained it like that.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by rajup on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:58PM (#29827102)

Wait 87 SpO2?! I'm pretty sure that's the point at which you would be on a ventilator? Not sure what sleep has to do with SpO2 and it seems criminally negligent for the emergency room to just send your wife off with just a cough medicine..

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by nradov on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:44PM (#29827927)

An SpO2 of 92% or lower is considered severe. In most cases the patient should be hospitalized.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n677

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:08PM (#29832648)

If it stays there yes. This was for less than five seconds. After the medicine it hasn't gone below 95.

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