Posted on 04/23/2020 6:57:12 PM PDT by bitt
A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients
Once thought a relatively straightforward respiratory virus, covid-19 is proving to be much more frightening
Ariana Eunjung Cha
Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. “Good morning, Team Covid,” he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals in the Emory University health system in Atlanta.
One doctor replied that one of his patients had a strange blood problem. Despite being put on anticoagulants, the patient was still developing clots. A second said she’d seen something similar. And a third. Soon, every person on the text chat had reported the same thing.
“That’s when we knew we had a huge problem,” said Coopersmith, a critical-care surgeon. As he checked with his counterparts at other medical centers, he became increasingly alarmed: “It was in as many as 20, 30 or 40 percent of their patients.”
One month ago when the country went into lockdown to prepare for the first wave of coronavirus cases, many doctors felt confident they knew what they were dealing with. Based on early reports, covid-19 appeared to be a standard variety respiratory virus, albeit a contagious and lethal one with no vaccine and no treatment. They’ve since seen how covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain.
Increasingly, doctors also are reporting bizarre, unsettling cases that don’t seem to follow any of the textbooks they’ve trained on. They describe patients with startlingly low oxygen levels — so low that they would normally be unconscious or near death — talking and swiping on their phones. Asymptomatic pregnant women suddenly in cardiac arrest. Patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease deteriorating within minutes and dying
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COVID-20.
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SO WE MUST SHUT DOWN FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
Been hearing about this as well. Definitely interested in hearing more about it.
Could it have anything to do bring sedentary?
Don’t be a pinhead.
There was a post last week that talked about how this virus kills and all of the above were mentioned and detailed what happens to some people. I will see if I can find it.
Sounds as if it was engineered.
Ha. My hematologist is part of Emory, and he said my platelet count is so low, he’d probably try to infect me to get a mosquito bite to clot.
No, we must shut down until biden and the wookie are elected./s
Consider the source.
Guess I really needed the /s after my all-caps post.
Unless you already knew what I meant?
(Second similar response in a couple hours to what I thought was obviously sarcasm)
COVID to the infinite power.
Cut to the chase in numbering.
COVID attacks red blood cells and damages their ability to carry oxygen.
That’s actually semi-normal for pneumonia patients. I wouldn’t throw the panic switch on this yet.
Probably more CCP propaganda happily republished by the WAPO to instill more fear into the American people,
There’s a lot of it about, you know.
:-) Best to you and yours.
MUST MAKE MASKS, FOR MY NEIGHBORS, TOO.
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