(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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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
Wow. In that case they need steroids. I doubt a doctor in this country is ready to throw 2 grams of SouMedrol at actively replicating viremia. No one has that kind of courage.
Please see 58.
The medical profession in a crisis often is forced into learning fast, and it shows that is what some are doing with the complications of Covid-19. By January 2021, with many lessons learned, treatments of Covid-19 patients will be prescribed with a lot more clinical experience behind them.
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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.