[conspire] One of the reasons I read all the things

[paulz at ieee.org]

 This is a great example of an sensational sounding sentence that totally obfuscates the meaning.
I would to expect that doctors who had access to a hyperbaric chamber would have some knowledge of its history.  Maybe they didn't emphasis that point when talking about their new work.  Or more likely the reporter wasn't paying attention.
Anyway it would seem to be a possible treatment except for the minor detail that hyyperbaric chambers are much scarcer than ventilators.

    On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 2:26:51 PM PDT, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:  
 
 …is for great throwaway lines in papers like this:

“Unwittingly, the Chinese physicians replicated an historical experience with HBOT [hyperbaric oxygen] in a near identical pulmonary viral pandemic, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.”

http://www.medgasres.com/preprintarticle.asp?id=282177

Now, I *had* known that hyperbaric oxygen was quite old, because it doesn’t take a lot to realize that if you can make an engine, you can make a hyperbaric chamber. It took quite a long time (until mid-1900s) to sort all the issues out, but there was indeed a 1918 experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine#History

Deirdre
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