grey_whiskers wrote:
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3831993/posts?page=170#170
(This new coronavirus causes its problems by chewing up the heme in red blood cells, releasing the iron into the body. Both the lack of oxygen-carrying capacity, and the iron running amok, cause their own problems. And the body’s adaptive mechanisms to each of them just make things worse.)
I don’t think this mechanism is found in ordinary coronaviruses or pangolin viruses, do you?
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Also ...
Emilio Martínez @egmartinez951 Cameron Kyle-Sidell, MD, a critical care physician in New York City, has been sounding the alarm urging healthcare professionals to consider that COVID-19 acts less like typical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and more like high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). 8 https://twitter.com/egmartinez951/status/1246962186544611334
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Thanks for finding this; pinging gas_dr.
Well, the tx for HAPE is high positive pressure, the treatment for ARDS is to list barotrauma. Honestly, I think this is a distinction without difference. As for the hemolytic anemia component — I am not seeing that in my patients. It is part of the daily surveillance of any critically ill patient, but we are not seeing higher levels of non binding hemoglobin (met, or carboxylate) in which the redox number is changed to bind or not bind oxygen.
Will keep looking, but not seeing it....