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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 11, 2020, 02:58 PM May 2020

Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body

Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she became infected by the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Conn., emergency room on May 1.

“You would have thought it was a stomach virus,” said her daughter, Catherina Coleman. “She was talking and walking and completely coherent.”

But even as Coughlin, 67, chatted with her daughters on her cellphone, the oxygen level in her blood dropped so low that most patients would be near death. She is on a ventilator and in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital, one more patient with a strange constellation of symptoms that physicians are racing to recognize, explain and treat.

“At the beginning, we didn’t know what we were dealing with,” said Valentin Fuster, physician-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. “We were seeing patients dying in front of us. It was all of a sudden, you’re in a different ballgame, and you don’t know why.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/doctors-keep-discovering-new-ways-the-coronavirus-attacks-the-body/ar-BB13SoPn?li=BBnb7Kz

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Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Yet another reason to maintain the restrictions and lockdowns. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #1
Exactly. Not only does flattening the curve save hospitals, but it gives more time for research. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #2
Exactly. That is why the 'let it wash over and build herd immunity" people applegrove May 2020 #4
Kick and recommend. Important article bronxiteforever May 2020 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,269 posts)
1. Yet another reason to maintain the restrictions and lockdowns.
Mon May 11, 2020, 03:03 PM
May 2020

Give the scientists time to figure out how this thing works and find effective treatments.

applegrove

(118,011 posts)
4. Exactly. That is why the 'let it wash over and build herd immunity" people
Mon May 11, 2020, 08:37 PM
May 2020

are so wrong. Do it as slowly as possible so we have theraputics and at some later date a vaccine. Save lives.

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