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1/2The issue about how to treat critically ill Covid patients in intensive care is important because it points the way towards developing treatment that works.
Anyone interested should read:
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/coronavirus-updates/protocol-driven-covid-19-respiratory-therapy-doing
Also https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overused-for-covid-19/
And even https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/intensive-care-doctors-question-overly-aggressive-use-ventilators/
Anyone interested should read:
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/coronavirus-updates/protocol-driven-covid-19-respiratory-therapy-doing
Also https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overused-for-covid-19/
And even https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/intensive-care-doctors-question-overly-aggressive-use-ventilators/
2/ EM doctors discussing the hypothesis that Covid is actually a blood disease not a lung disease: https://foamcast.org/2020/04/08/covid-19-is-it-ards-hape-hemoglobinopathy/
The amazing hemoglobinopathy hypothesis paper. It’s just a computer simulation and a preprint, but it would explain so much. https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173
The amazing hemoglobinopathy hypothesis paper. It’s just a computer simulation and a preprint, but it would explain so much. https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173
That paper well summarised in this thread from ten days ago:
https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20
Hemoglobinopathy idea has been buzzing among doctors everywhere, but there's no research. Research in real time?
https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20
Hemoglobinopathy idea has been buzzing among doctors everywhere, but there's no research. Research in real time?
