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I don't have a link on me right now but I was reading about COVID and chloroquine and in some patients COVID actually attacks and binds to the hemoglobin, preve

I don't have a link on me right now but I was reading about COVID and chloroquine and in some patients COVID actually attacks and binds to the hemoglobin, preventing blood from being able to carry O2 or CO2 (which then leads to multiple organ failure and the like). Cloroquine can prevent that from happening but (I am not a medical professional, this is not professional advice, this is just what I read) only if taken early on before COVID sets in. Either way, this virus is causing some people's bodies to do weird, disastrous things, and others have no symptoms whatsoever.

rjsw 7y ago
Maybe this [1] was the link. [1] https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173 https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
tyingq 7y ago
The whole (hydroxy)Cloroquine thing is interesting to me because it seems to depend a lot on Zinc. And the existing data doesn't seem to track it. So we are left with little to contemplate.