CLINICAL
Doctors try to untangle why they’re seeing ‘unprecedented’ blood clotting among Covid-19 patients
“You just watch it clot right in front of you,” said Hibbert, director of the medical intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It’s rare to have that happen once, and extremely rare to have that happen twice.”
...”The number of clotting problems I’m seeing in the ICU, all related to Covid-19, is unprecedented,” Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, wrote in an email to CNN. “Blood clotting problems appear to be widespread in severe Covid.”
Laurence and his colleagues looked at autopsies on two patients and found blood clots in the lungs and just beneath the surface of the skin...
Hibbert described how a nurse recently had to constantly administer a blood thinner called heparin to a Covid-19 patient while the patient was undergoing kidney dialysis, because clots kept clogging up the tubing in the machine.
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/blood-clots-coronavirus/index.html
ENGLAND - outside the cities life goes on - Video
Virus reveals differences between England’s cities and villages
While Covid-19 deaths spread around the UK, in the countryside a new calm has settled. Daily life in England’s villages is bustling as locals stop traveling to bigger towns and a resilient spirit endures. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports. Source: CNN