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joejitsu -> RE: General Vikes Talk (6/15/2020 10:10:10 AM)
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I really can't wait to hear the full story Bruce. When you are up to it, write it down and paste it here.
Agreed!
I joined here just because of Bruce's story (and I think I joined on Bruce's birthday). We're practically family now! [&:]
But yeah, I'm definitely curious to know the full story. Very scary stuff. I was just reading how a healthy 20-year-old had to undergo a double lung transplant.
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Northwestern Medicine surgeons have performed what is believed to be the first double lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient.
The patient, a 20-year-old Hispanic woman, spent six weeks in the intensive care unit on a ventilator and a life-support machine that performed the work of her heart and lungs.
“By early June, the patient’s lungs showed irreversible damage and lung transplant was the only option,” Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital said Thursday. “If she didn’t have a transplant, she would not be alive.”
The patient underwent a 10-hour surgery Friday and is in stable condition.
“This important milestone shows the transplant procedure is quite challenging technically, (though) it can be done safely, and it offers terminally ill COVID-19 patients another option for survival,” said Bharat, one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.
During her time at the hospital, the patient was among the sickest in the COVID-19 intensive care unit and the entire hospital, said Beth Malsin, a pulmonary care and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
“She is one of the youngest people we’ve seen with this degree of lung damage,” said Malsin, who works in the COVID-19 ICU.
Just unreal. Very glad Bruce is doing better and on the mend.
In football related news:
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Jeremy Fowler of ESPN says that Cook felt “disrespected” by the offer that the Vikings sent in his direction in an effort to extend him beyond this season.
“I’m told he’s planning to hold out simply because he felt disrespected by the offer the Vikings put on the table. This is a player that believes he’s one of the best at his position, but he wasn’t asking really for Christian McCaffrey money, which is $16 million per year. He would probably take less than that. So they have about a month to try to find a sweet spot before training camp or else he plans to not show up.”
Link: https://www.dailynorseman.com/2020/6/14/21291084/espn-dalvin-cook-felt-disrespected-minnesota-vikings-contract-offer
"Disrespected" - never a good thing, especially with one of our team leaders. Also, we don't need any more key players on offense unhappy.
So, it appears the contract offer will be between 8-16 million a year, but probably more like between 8-13. I wonder if 10-11ish would be enough. All the data shows not to pay a running back this much, but... how much is he worth to our team, who also just shipped away Diggs? I don't know, but I hope it gets resolved with Cook happy in purple.
I think Cook is a great RB, but he has had 1 good season. He has to come to the realization that he isn't anywhere near the McCaffrey or Zeke level. I think we could pay him 10 Million per year with incentives to make a bit more based on potential. Hopefully he will be happy with that. If he were on the open market he would quickly find out that 31 other teams disrespect him just as much as the Vikings.
The biggest issue with Dalvin is his durability. He's so good when he is feeling right, but he is held back by injuries a lot of the time. You can't commit huge money to a guy who spends more time in the tub than on the field. I love him as a Viking, though.
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