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Originally Posted by dhdallas

Isn't the media bad enough at publicizing the worst possible outcomes? Individuals with no background in healthcare or infectious diseases promoting and fanning the public's fears are not helping.

Johns Hopkins Medicine states that septicemia, or sepsis, is the clinical name for blood poisoning by bacteria. It is the body's most extreme response to an infection. Almost any type of infection can lead to sepsis but it is not something that goes hand-in-hand with every case of COVID. Sepsis is more likely to ocurr when patients are in the end stages of any number of diseases especially people with chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, lung disease, cancer, and kidney disease according to the CDC.

I worked during the onset of AIDS/HIV, H1N1, MRSA & Necrotizing Fasciitis (flesh eating bacteria) and never have I seen such a level of misinformation and a bombardment of articles that focus on rare atypical cases and the hypothetical.

- David H. Dallas, RN, ENT-Paramedic, ASN - Retired

More research is needed. And I have been talking to now practicing doctors and nurses in the Villages over the past few months about sepsis and quite a lot.

Corona Virus and sepsis are closely connected especially with respect to numbers given for deaths from either.

Sepsis and Coronavirus Disease 2019: Common Features and Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Approaches