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`A plan to save coronavirus patients from dying at home
`By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN
` Updated 8:50 AM ET, Sun April 12, 2020
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`(CNN) — While coronavirus cases and deaths have overwhelmed US hospitals, there have been reports, too, of
`coronavirus patients around the country dying in their homes.
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`In New York, the number of daily household deaths is 8 to 10 times higher than normal, one city ocial said.
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`"Typically in New York City, on an average day, about 20 to 25 people die at home, but now in this crisis, and for
`several days running, it's been over 200 people a day who are dying at home," said New York City Councilman
`Mark Levine, who chairs the city's Council Committee on Health. "We presume that most of that increase is due to
`coronavirus."
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`The issue is that people with coronavirus might seem like
`they're doing OK, and then become very sick very quickly.
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`In Cleveland, Ohio, a team of researchers at University
`Hospitals is running a small pilot program designed to help
`save the lives of coronavirus patients who run into trouble
`while battling the virus at home.
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`Patients who come into the emergency department but aren't
`sick enough to be admitted to the hospital are sent home with
`a sensor to wear on their finger.
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`The sensor measures oxygen levels in their blood and sends
`signals to a wrist monitor that looks like a watch, which then
`sends signals to their cell phone. That data is then goes to a
`central monitoring station where doctors and nurses can
`monitor the patient's condition minute by minute.
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`"Ultimately, they go home and know somebody is watching their breathing and their oxygen levels, which are the
`early signs that someone is going to get sick, and it gives them peace of mind," said Dr. Peter Pronovost, a patient
`safety expert and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient who helped develop the mobile platform behind the
`technology.
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`The Masimo SafetyNet is being used to monitor the oxygen levels of coronavirus patients
`recovering at home.
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`Leonardo Frazier, 54, a janitor at a recreation center in Chardon, Ohio, is one of the unsung heroes of the
`coronavirus pandemic. Before he contracted coronavirus, he spent his days cleaning sinks and lockers and wiping
`down counters and bathrooms. He thinks he might have contracted the virus at work.
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`On March 27, Frazier's symptoms became so severe he could hardly breathe. He went to the emergency room.
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`"They wanted to try out a device on me to monitor me at home," he said.
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`Three days later, on April 1, while wearing the sensor at his home, his oxygen levels dropped. His heart was racing.
`He was dizzy and nauseated. His blood pressure spiked.
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`Then his phone rang.
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`It was the doctors who'd been monitoring him.
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`They told him he needed to come to the ER immediately.
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`Leo Frazier, 54, wore a sensor on his finger and wrist while recovering from coronavirus at
`home.
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`Frazier spent seven days in the hospital, recovering in an isolation room and relying on supplemental oxygen to stay
`alive.
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`He had been home alone that day and said he felt so weak, he's not sure would have known what to do. He's also
`not sure emergency responders would have been able to get to him if ge'd called for help.
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`In a video he shared with CNN, he holds up the sensor and -- still breathing heavily -- says, "I just want to show you
`the device that kind of like saved my life."
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`Pronovost developed the mobile platform for the device and sold it to Masimo, a medical device company, which
`now markets the device under the name SafetyNet. He said he holds no financial interest in the technology.
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`"There's an urgent need to scale this," he said. "We believe this technology could help save lives."
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`Until then, most coronavirus patients who are at home will have to depend on themselves.
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`"Someone who's at home -- your body is going to tell you
`when you're not getting enough oxygen. You will feel terrible,"
`Levine said. "If what you're experiencing is extreme diculty
`breathing, which often manifests itself by inability to say more
`than a word or two at a time, then you need to call 911,
`because you're experiencing respiratory failure."
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`Right now, so many people are dying at home in New York
`City that they're not even testing them after death for
`coronavirus, said Levine, the city councilman.
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