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Coronavirus Pandemic: The Silver Lining

March 27, 2020 By Dr. William Davis

No doubt, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is extracting a considerable toll on human health and the financial welfare of the U.S. and the world. Many people have been infected, many have died.

But there is, I believe, a silver lining to this tragic pandemic, positive developments that will emerge in everything from social behavior to exposing weaknesses in healthcare, as hard as it may be to visualize from our current vantage point of enforced social isolation and workplace shutdowns. Out of this awful experience, some good will result.

Among the positive benefits that I believe will emerge from this episode:

  • It will restore an appreciation for the simple things: being able to see and touch friends and family, the simple pleasure of having coffee or a meal at a restaurant or shopping at a store, the freedom to travel, the ability to come and go as we please.
  • It will highlight how and why everyone deserves to receive medical care, regardless of healthcare insurance status. If someone presents to the hospital gasping for air in respiratory failure, the last thing you want to do is demand an insurance card. Human life is precious and should not be about healthcare insurance premiums.
  • It illustrates how health should be a collaborative effort, not a system of profit for a few.
  • It exposes the weaknesses of the healthcare system’s ability to deal with a pandemic. With a mortality rate of around 1% that severely taxes the current system, imagine what would have happened had the mortality rate been 25-30% as it was with smallpox—such a pandemic may be in our future, but the system will be better prepared by learning from this relatively lower mortality experience.
  • When thousands of people receive hospitals bills, it will expose how absurdly overpriced American healthcare has become. Being on a ventilator for, say, 7 days, weaned off, followed by recovery in hospital with respiratory therapy, antibiotics, and other assorted therapies is going to yield hospitals bills of $100,000 or far more, causing bankruptcies even in people covered by healthcare insurance. Despite all the hard work and dedication of people in healthcare, the healthcare system remains corrupt and exploitative. There are going to be people who receive hospital bills of many hundreds of thousands that healthcare insurers will find ways to not pay. Make no mistake: There are going to be people who profit from this crisis. We need to recognize this perversion and bring it to light to help craft a better system that provides quality care but does not allow undeserved excessive profit.

From the viewpoint of the Undoctored program, because of the lack of effective therapies for the virus, it has highlighted how and why optimizing the immune response can yield powerful protection against viral illnesses by employing strategies that are not part of the national conversation, strategies that reduce airway susceptibility to infection, reduce or eliminate the impaired immunity of high blood sugars, and reverse immunosenescence (loss of immune response with aging).

 

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Filed Under: DIY Healthcare, Health Information Tagged With: coronavirus, covid, diy health, diy healthcare, diyhealth, diyhealthcare, dr william davis, undoctored, viral

About Dr. William Davis

William Davis, MD, FACC is cardiologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wheat Belly series of books. He is also author of the new Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor.

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  1. Lee Goodwin

    March 27, 2020

    Thx again for having the courage to be honest about our failing system of healthcare.

  2. Toby Lime

    March 27, 2020

    So well said dr. Davis!

    This crisis is part of the ignorance of the health-care in the United States. I completely agree that this is not the worst that could happen to us if we don’t change the health care in the country. The results of this pandemic will be catastrophic for our mental Health and to the our economic well being as well.

    I believe that the future statistics will show even lower rate of death… but even one person losing their live it’s one too many. Even if one person was afraid to go and seek help because it couldn’t pay his bill these should shame all of us…

    I hope the Wheat Belly program will help all of us. I hope many more people will take advantage from it in the future. I hope all doctors will get to be doctoring in the future.

  3. Duane

    March 27, 2020

    Be safe with knowledge. The Undoctored program continues to demonstrate the importance of understanding this virus and understanding why we are doing the protocol. Thanks for adding additional information which I believe should be at the forefront of the discussion and conversation of this pandemic.

  4. Jackie

    March 29, 2020

    I am grateful for all you have done for me. I have so much to learn. You have forever changed my trajectory. Blessings to you and All you Love

  5. Jonathan H Steedley

    April 9, 2020

    Hello;
    THANK YOU! Dr. Davis!
    I started w/ Wheat Belly Oct. 2015. I’ve adjusted to a keto low-carb life-style since but I still advocate the Wheat Belly for many. Wheat Belly is a low-carb life-style because eliminating grains lowers carbs in the diet.
    I really appreciate Dr. Davis’ contribution to genuine healthcare, not the so-called “health care system” which actually has nothing to do w/ “health”.
    I feel that many deaths attributed to the virus are really the result of the medical establishment’s opposing nutritional care.
    I feel that I’m alive today partly because of Dr. Davis’ efforts to correct the status quo.
    Thank you again, Dr. Davis.

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