It’s about what we see but no changes in abosolute death numbers from all causes...no spikes over the normal floor noises. Lots of double and triple tests being done for covid which come back negative before the docs realize that it was just some other garden variety sepsis/virus with aggravation of co-morbidities. The elevated ferritin and coagulopathies seem to be the true determinate of a covid infection even when testing negative for the virus. I hear a medical university in Iran was testing the use of desferal to leach the iron from the damaged hemoglobin in the blood and from the ground glass opacities that show up in the lungs. One of our nephrologists even said he doesn’t know why we aren’t trying it as he orders it for his hemachromatosis patients who have the same iron and ferritin issues.
I haven’t heard yet how the studies came out as the first results were due in Early October and since it was an Iranian Medical University anyway why would anyone trust what comes out of Iran these days?
elevated ferritin in and of itself is an acute phase reactant and can be elevated in a number of thing. It is a combination of multiple lab and x-ray findings with the clinical presentation that makes the diagnosis. Again it is fairly unique in its presentation of you know what you are looking for. Other mimics usually declare themselves pretty quickly