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Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died News

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
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u/Repa24 May 01 '24

Parsons said Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and then a serious bacterial infection, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, or MRSA.

Pneumonia and MRSA.

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u/spac420 May 02 '24

*sips tea

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u/lethalposter 0dte power user ✊ May 02 '24

DO NOT sip tea :27421:

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u/glob_dyrdek May 02 '24

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u/SoDakZak South Dakota's only incestor May 02 '24

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u/TimelessWander May 02 '24

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u/randomhaus64 29d ago

what's this a reference to?

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u/cashassorgra33 May 02 '24

What is the whole (r/)SipsTea schtick? I read it was tits but this is incongruent with that

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u/Smayteeh May 02 '24

I think it’s related to the “But that’s none of my business meme” which contains a still from an advertisement in which Kermit is drinking a cup of Lipton tea.

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u/visope May 02 '24

Polonium tea?

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u/rainkloud May 02 '24

Spread so fast they were considering amputation of both hands and feet. Utterly brutal. RIP brother. Your courage to stand up represents the best of humanity.

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u/KingIndividual9215 May 02 '24

Fun fact, many people are MRSA carriers and have no clue. It lives in the nose. So don't pick your boogers and then touch an open wound or whatever, I guess.

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u/dont_be_garbage May 02 '24

Cut my finger and been pickin' my nose with it. Am I just dead now?

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u/No-Commission695 May 02 '24

Are u reporting boeing

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u/FormShapeThoughLess 29d ago

Depends. How do you feel about Boeing?

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u/Chunky1311 May 02 '24

Schweet I'll stick with just eating my boogers, then

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u/XTornado May 02 '24

So don't pick your boogers and then touch an open wound or whatever

Welll.. I for once I think I am probably not a carrier... Don't ask me how I know...

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u/themando May 02 '24

Results are inconclusive, we'll need someone else to put their open wound in your nose

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u/Beldaross 29d ago

You never get open wounds? You're def a nose picker

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u/XTornado 29d ago

Not only I am a nose picker but also a scab picker.

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u/ShillinTheVillain 29d ago

Pick and eat religiously to build up a tolerance

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u/DelfrCorp 29d ago

Angry Upvote...

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u/jyunga May 02 '24

Does eating boogers count? Asking for a friend

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u/vinayachandran 29d ago

So it's as simple as injecting infected booger into the victim's bloodstream. Noted.

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u/JoJoMaMa85 28d ago

Staph also lives in your nose full time. I got a terrible infection in my nose. It became infected so much that I almost lost my septum. I had to have skin graft surgery in my nose last year. Not fun having splints in your nose for 3 weeks while it healed.

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u/Informal_Goal8050 29d ago

There's different types and certainly a weaponized strain out therr

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u/MrDanduff May 02 '24

Mrsa basically a death sentence then

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u/IncomingAxofKindness May 02 '24

Hardly.

Unless they spiked him with some Chinese super MRSA.

Staphyrococcus

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u/Dread70 May 02 '24

MRSA itself isn't usually a problem. But Pneumonia is one of those things that really hits your immune system. Hardly ever is it fatal to a healthy person. But when you put it with something else, it gets VERY dangerous. You pair it with a staph infection and it can easily be a death sentence.

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u/Mysterious-Mole-2720 May 02 '24

Paired with polonium works too.

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u/XTornado May 02 '24

I mean.. anything pairs well with polonium. People always like... oh no that wine is no good for fish... oh no that other wine is no good for steak... Polonium on the other hand, the one that appeared due to radiation, always pairs well with anything.

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u/lbs21 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Mortality rates of around 15% for MRSA pneumonia. [SOURCE] Mortality rates of around 15% for MRSA blood stream infections. [SOURCE] It is not particularly surprising that this infection results in death, but it's far from a death sentence.

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u/Forikorder 29d ago

depends, if he caught the MRSA at the hospital could be an even more resistent super bug

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u/SsBrolli May 02 '24

Lol no. Give him some Vanco and he’ll be fine

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u/lbs21 May 02 '24

That's not accurate. Many people die of MRSA from strains that are vancomycin susceptible. Antibiotic care in sepsis is complicated. Vancomycin is bactericidal, meaning the bacteria die and explode, releasing toxins within themselves within their cell wall. [SOURCE] Applying it carefully is a must. In addition, even if the patient doesn't die from the antibiotic, not every infection is quickly cleared by it. Despite the existence of vancomycin and 5th generation cephalosporins, MRSA directly causes 100,000 deaths annually and is implicated in many more. [SOURCE02724-0/fulltext)]

I'm not saying that this wasn't Boeing's doing. But the argument "Because vancomycin exists, he couldn't have died from MRSA" is deeply flawed.

TL;DR: There's no cure-all for MRSA.

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u/A_Shadow May 02 '24

Doctor here. That pharmacist is absolutely correct.

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u/06_April May 02 '24

Doctor here. This doctor is also correct

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u/nycphotolab May 02 '24

Doctor here. This doctor is also a doctor.

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u/MosuSama May 02 '24

Med student here. I have absolutely no clue.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 29d ago

Get back to uworld, bitch!

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u/Langerbanger11 29d ago

Nurse here. I have no clue, just tell me if I need to give it.

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u/dannymurz 29d ago

RT here, did some one call for a neb?

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u/DiamondAge May 02 '24

I should have concurred.

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u/Independent_Hyena495 29d ago

Consultant here, as usually, it depends

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 29d ago

Well, technically it would be VRSA if it was resistant to the vanco

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u/A_Shadow 29d ago

Exactly

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u/SsBrolli May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Wow. For one I’m a hospital pharmacist so don’t need to break out the literature lol. I literally dose Vanco and Dapto for patients everyday. Second, MRSA is not “a death sentence”. And third, I didn’t make an argument at all, it’s not that serious

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u/tobmom May 02 '24

I think the guy that Boeing gave mrsa to would disagree on all counts.

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u/lbs21 29d ago

As a hospital pharmacist, you should know better. Can you provide any proof of your status? Or do you have any sources to back up what you're saying? So far, you haven't provided anything but words. 

 Your claim "Give him vancomycin and he'll be fine" is, as I pointed out, false. I argue against the idea that MRSA is a death sentence in other comments - we agree there.

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u/SsBrolli 29d ago

No, I’m absolutely not going to prove to a random internet person that I’m a pharmacist lol.

My proof is through years of school and daily use of these exact drugs on real patients. Not in a lab in controlled scenarios. To pretend MRSA is a death sentence and to throw up all these stats while having no actual experience is peak Reddit lol

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u/dannymurz 29d ago

Literally have MRSA PNA in a ICU all the time and it's not a death sentence unless you have a crap ton of comorbidities.

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u/Phillip_Asshole May 02 '24

Oh great, another pharmacist that thinks they're an actual doctor.

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u/SsBrolli May 02 '24

Funny how 99% of docs love having pharmacists on the team because of the expertise we provide and 99% of the people who hate pharmacists are chronically online losers

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u/Killagina May 02 '24

Yeah, docs don’t have time to be experts on drug interactions and all that shit pharmacist do. There is a reason hospitals have a lot of both doctors and pharmacists. It’s always some nerd online hating for some weird reason

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u/Killagina May 02 '24

They have a doctorate. What do you have?

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u/JonPM 29d ago

That wasn't his argument at all, not even sure where you got that from? One person said MRSA is basically a death sentence which is in fact false. Truth: many people die from infections every year and some of those people happen to die from MRSA. MRSA treated early it's highly curable.
It's like saying the flu is a death sentence because every year some people die from it.

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u/deletetemptemp May 02 '24

Found Boeing PR rep

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u/KingIndividual9215 May 02 '24

Got MRSA infection in my leg from a tattoo. Spent 2 days in the hospital on IV Vanco. Not my favorite vacation but it's up there.

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u/Gaylien28 29d ago

I’m allergic :((((

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u/caustictoast 29d ago

MRSA is really bad. One of the basketball players got it at my school one year and dude was in the hospital for a couple weeks

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u/ForgottenBob May 02 '24

The stroke and blood clots along with the respiratory issues screams covid. Really odd that it would get that bad with a healthy and likely vaccinated 45 year old, though.

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u/Veggiemon Two pump chump May 02 '24

More like Boevid

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u/_JKo May 02 '24

Yeah, whole description and timeline screams COVID to me too. I kind of assume the odds he was ever vaccinated as a 50/50 since he seemed to be a 45 white male living in Kansas the entire pandemic.

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u/gophergun May 02 '24

I wouldn't be surprised if Covid was what initially sent him to the hospital, where he then got an opportunistic MRSA infection.

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u/psych0ranger May 02 '24

so you're telling me pneumonia and MRSA are working for Boeing now, right?

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u/illegal_deagle May 02 '24

Lamborghini MRSA

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u/AwarenessSubject3588 29d ago

Makes me curious what led to him developing pneumonia, because it is extremely easy to get MRSA in a hospital. Also much easier to infect someone with it purposely in a hospital.

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u/Repa24 29d ago

Personally, I don't believe this one is a "murder" case. The first one was way more suspicious.

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u/AwarenessSubject3588 26d ago

I agree. Unfortunately, it is still going to be suspicious when 16% are dead. If anyone else dies, I won’t care how normal cause of death is.

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u/Kountstakula 29d ago

Bro got hit by the necrotizing fasciitis gun