How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

Science Magazine ^ | Apr. 17, 2020 , 6:45 P | By Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine Matacic

[SoCal Pubbie]

Have you ever read descriptions of how those killed by the Spanish Flu died?

[Lazamataz]

Have you ever read descriptions of how those killed by the Spanish Flu died?

I have. Hideous.

[BenLurkin]

Looks like that Red Chinese bio-lab had some talented psychopaths working in it.

[Jane Long]

Ping.

[Lazamataz]

Looks like that Red Chinese bio-lab had some talented psychopaths working in it.

Can't wait to see what they cook up next.

[reasonisfaith]

Where’s the controlled study?

Oh. They’re using anecdotal evidence to form opinions, the way all doctors always have. Every day.

[Lazamataz]

Is the accurate description of what a doctor saw, an opinion? Or is it, instead, observation?

[Fiddlstix]

[shanover]

It sounds like more of a nerve agent. Scary stuff.

Sounds like something developed in a lab and biological weapons we were warned about in NBC training in the military.

It was also common that enemies understood that a NBC attack would lead to massive retaliation. Nobody is afraid of retaliation from America anymore.

[ETCM]

To put a face on the virus, rather than the cartoonish, generic spike-ball images everyone associates with this virus, try this one with thousands of virons attacking a single, dying cell.

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

We need to carpet China with neutron bombs and throw the keys to the Uighars on the way out.

[fwdude]

Then how come a good number of people who contract it have relatively mild or NO reactive symptoms? Something doesn’t jive.

[Lazamataz]

Then how come a good number of people who contract it have relatively mild or NO reactive symptoms? Something doesn’t jive.

Who knows. Could be anything. Even something simple like, how much CV gets into you on the first invasion. More time from a slow infection, more time to build a counterattack by your body.

But nobody really knows.

[InterceptPoint]

What explains the startlingly low blood oxygen that some physicians are reporting in patients who nonetheless are not gasping for breath? ...
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The best theory I have heard. But I haven’t finished the article yet.

This is a very big issue. Learn how it kills. For me it would be the highest priority.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Great article.

PING!

[Bratch]

This is NOT influenza.

And yet, its mortality rate is still less than a strong influenza outbreak.

[Lazamataz]

The fat lady ain’t sung yet.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And yet, it appears that a large number of people get it and barely even know they have it. There is a lot we don’t know still.

[Bratch]

The witch better STHU!

[Java4Jay]

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