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I'm sorry. That really sucks. Clotting clearly does happen for a subset of patients. But it's wrong for the OP to claim that this is because the virus is doing
by timr 6y ago
I'm sorry. That really sucks.
Clotting clearly does happen for a subset of patients. But it's wrong for the OP to claim that this is because the virus is doing something to the blood. That's a leap too far. Other infections cause similar sorts of issues -- sepsis, for example.
The distinction matters, because if the clotting is mediated by a runaway inflammatory response (e.g. an over-reaction of the innate immune system), it's inherently a problem that will affect a subset of people who are infected (for reasons we don't really understand). Whereas if the virus attacks some component of the blood, it would be expected to affect most people the same way.
- mattzito 6y agoBut if we have a population of people who will experience this, wouldn’t that feed into the GP contention that no one is measuring the experience between alive and dead? I completely buy the idea that all of these effects happen with other conditions, but if there’s a surge due to covid, shouldn’t we investigate it?
- timr 6y ago> wouldn’t that feed into the GP contention that no one is measuring the experience between alive and dead? Well, no...there have been a lot of publications in this area. We hear about them all the time. Most of these publications are bad at the moment, but that's normal. It takes time for good research to be completed. It will happen. > if there’s a surge due to covid, shouldn’t we investigate it? Sure. I don't think anything I've written here implies otherwise.