Posted on 04/17/2020 7:29:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz
On rounds in a 20-bed intensive care unit (ICU) one recent day, physician Joshua Denson assessed two patients with seizures, many respiratory failure and others whose kidneys were on a dangerous downhill slide. Days earlier, his rounds had been interrupted as his team tried, and failed, to resuscitate a young woman whose heart had stopped. All shared one thing, says Denson, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Tulane University. “They are all COVID positive.”
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surges past 2.2 million globally and deaths surpass 150,000, clinicians and pathologists are struggling to understand the damage wrought by the coronavirus as it tears through the body. They are realizing that although the lungs are ground zero, its reach can extend to many organs including the heart and blood vessels, kidneys, gut, and brain.
“[The disease] can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences,” says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz, “Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”
Understanding the rampage could help the doctors on the front lines treat the fraction of infected people who become desperately and sometimes mysteriously ill. Does a dangerous, newly observed tendency to blood clotting transform some mild cases into life-threatening emergencies? Is an overzealous immune response behind the worst cases, suggesting treatment with immune-suppressing drugs could help? What explains the startlingly low blood oxygen that some physicians are reporting in patients who nonetheless are not gasping for breath? ...
What follows is a snapshot of the fast-evolving understanding of how the virus attacks cells around the body, especially in the roughly 5% of patients who become critically ill. Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no microbe humanity has ever seen. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencemag.org ...
Have you ever read descriptions of how those killed by the Spanish Flu died?
I have. Hideous.
Looks like that Red Chinese bio-lab had some talented psychopaths working in it.
Ping.
Can't wait to see what they cook up next.
Where’s the controlled study?
Oh. They’re using anecdotal evidence to form opinions, the way all doctors always have. Every day.
Is the accurate description of what a doctor saw, an opinion? Or is it, instead, observation?
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.
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.
We need to carpet China with neutron bombs and throw the keys to the Uighars on the way out.
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.
What explains the startlingly low blood oxygen that some physicians are reporting in patients who nonetheless are not gasping for breath? ...
+++++
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.
This is NOT influenza.And yet, its mortality rate is still less than a strong influenza outbreak.
The fat lady ain’t sung yet.
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.
The witch better STHU!
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