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There was a post about this doing the rounds yesterday. Annoyingly it was posted on Medium and has since been removed, but a copy of it, along with some interes
by g3e0 6y ago
There was a post about this doing the rounds yesterday. Annoyingly it was posted on Medium and has since been removed, but a copy of it, along with some interesting discussion, can be found here:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/04/05/wuhan-flu-21/ http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/04/05/wuhan-f...
The hypothesis is that the virus is somehow attacking the hemoglobin, stopping it from being able to carry oxygen AND releasing a toxic form of iron, both of which eventually cause organ failure.
I am not a doctor, but if this hypothesis is true, it could explain why the death rate for those who end up on a ventilator is so high. If your immune system doesn’t fight the infection off fast enough, eventually your blood becomes incapable of carrying oxygen. At this point, a ventilator won’t help you, you would need a blood transfusion containing healthy hemoglobin.
The tone of the post was that we are currently fighting the wrong disease - treating Covid-19 like we would treat pneumonia, when it is actually something unique.
- withinboredom 6y agoAfter seeing it develop in my wife, and later myself, I can confirm that it “appears like malaria” in that in comes in waves (much like a blood disease like malaria). There could be some truth to this, but it could also be personal bias seeing a pattern that isn’t there.
- morebytes 6y agoI too read that blog post and the supposed science that the author purports, which caused me to search for some scientific explanations and found this article by two Chinese Scientists: https://bit.ly/2VaR39G https://bit.ly/2VaR39G