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Dave Starsky

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10. I think your doc is probably about right.

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 26, 2020, 09:34 AM

Jun 2020

We know that clotting factors play a role in its actions and that the organs that are really heavily perfused on a microscopic level (like the lungs and kidneys) get messed up the most.

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