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To: RummyChick

Medicines taken by thousands of people with high blood pressure and diabetes could raise the risk of deadly coronavirus symptoms, scientists claim

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8108735/Medicines-high-blood-pressure-diabetes-worsen-coronavirus-symptoms.html


2 posted on 03/13/2020 6:55:18 AM PDT by RummyChick
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JetBlue BANS passenger from flying with airline again after he took a flight from JFK Airport knowing he was waiting for a coronavirus test result that then came back positive on board

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8108251/JetBlue-BANS-passenger-flying-tested-positive-coronavirus-onboard.html


3 posted on 03/13/2020 6:55:44 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Oh... so ACE inhibitors increase ACE2 expression on the cell membrane? I didn’t realize that was the mechanism of action... I thought it was more that there were ACE2 receptors on the cell that the virus targeted.

Full disclosure... I take a low dose of Ramipril, so that article caught my attention.


25 posted on 03/13/2020 7:04:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: RummyChick

Talked with my doc about this yesterday. She and her colleagues are waiting for more data. Correlation is not necessarily causation. But she will switch me to a channel blocker if necessary.


32 posted on 03/13/2020 7:09:03 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: RummyChick

You mean millions of people.


114 posted on 03/13/2020 7:55:53 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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