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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This is a great example of an sensational sounding sentence that totally obfuscates the meaning.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Anyway it would seem to be a possible treatment except for the minor detail that hyyperbaric chambers are much scarcer than ventilators.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 2:26:51 PM PDT, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre@deirdre.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">…is for great throwaway lines in papers like this:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“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.”<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.medgasres.com/preprintarticle.asp?id=282177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.medgasres.com/preprintarticle.asp?id=282177</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine#History" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine#History</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Deirdre<br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">conspire mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br></div></div>
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