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COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts li
by praeter 7y ago
COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema). The damage and inflammation is coming from the blood's inability to properly perform gas exchange in the lungs. Other damage could actually be coming from ventilators with pressure set too high (lungs of patients are mechanically normal, atypical for ARDS). Patient oxygen stats are also weird, they're hypoxic, but not necessarily short of breath.
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https://www.cureus.com/articles/29004-acetazolamide-nifedipine-and-phosphodiesterase-inhibitors-rationale-for-their-utilization-as-adjunctive-countermeasures-in-the-treatment-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19 https://www.cureus.com/articles/29004-acetazolamide-nifedipi...
- jo6gwb 7y agoThank you for posting this - some of the other comments didn't quite capture it. See the twitter of Cameron Kyle-Sidell who is working at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn for additional info. https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1246765252307533825 https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1246765252307533825 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156