How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

[CousinIT]

THIS IS A MUST-READ ARTICLE. I warn you it is SHOCKING.

THIS is what Trump and the Republicans and the Koch/DeVos "freedumb" Nazis want us (and themselves too, apparently) to be exposed to and potentially to die with -- in order to save the economy and Trump's re-election chances.

. . .“The disease can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences,” says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz of Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, who is leading multiple efforts to gather clinical data on COVID-19. “Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”

Understanding the rampage could help the doctors on the front lines treat the fraction of infected people who become desperately and sometimes mysteriously ill. Does a dangerous, newly observed tendency to blood clotting transform some mild cases into life-threatening emergencies? Is an overzealous immune response behind the worst cases, suggesting treatment with immune-suppressing drugs could help? What explains the startlingly low blood oxygen that some physicians are reporting in patients who nonetheless are not gasping for breath? “Taking a systems approach may be beneficial as we start thinking about therapies,” says Nilam Mangalmurti, a pulmonary intensivist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). . . .



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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes

[Karadeniz]

1. This is a mean virus...thanks for the informative article!