[riri]

My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more “I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this” records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like “sticking your finger in an electric socket.” Stay home.

Bess Kalb @bessbell He had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s mystifying and brutal.

[RummyChick]

“Bess Kalb @bessbell He had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s mystifying and brutal.”

This is why I keep saying look at thalessemia and sickle cell and malaria to try to find an answer as to how to deal with this. Thalessemia Major requires blood transfusions but that is rarer than Thalessemia minor who just have crappy blood oxygen and all kinds of problems with Medcrams buzzwords...NAPH, GPH, , ROS, SOD,

Many Drs just dont understand thalessemia. I am usually told to take iron..which is exactly what you dont want to to.

Those crazy ferritin numbers that patients are getting is another clue