UncleEbenezer wrote:oldapple wrote:Love the humour in some of the posts. I thought I'd highlight this report from BBC's Fergus Walsh. It shows how much the corona virus affects the brain as well as the respiratory system, and how much the specialists have and are still learning about it. One very seriously ill (highly educated) patient makes a remarkable and unexpected recovery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53081022
That's genuinely interesting - thanks. And (insofar as a single case can) seems to hint at why heart conditions showed up ahead of respiratory conditions as a risk factor in the early reporting.
It's not just a single case
- for a while now this has looked like a blood disorder delivered through the respiratory system
The bells started ringing when the recovery rate on ventilation was so low; or more correctly that the SPO2 of patients on serious ventilation was still dropping despite the efforts of the medics (air and oxygen going in but the haemoglobin isn't taking up O2)
This isn't a flu where you succumb through bronchitis becoming pneumonia and your lungs filling; this scars your lungs through clotting, gives you a very good risk of a stroke or cutting out the flow to organs other than the brain.
It's really quite novel and the residual effects have only been quantified on patients sufficiently impacted to warrant investigation
- we don't know what impact a "light dose" causes; would you notice 5, 10, 20% of your lungs being gone? (I got down to 65% capacity last year through a bacterial infection before I got myself checked out - wheezing on my cycling commute)
Frankly I'm pissed off with the whole thing
- my employer think's it's great because my current servo project inflates peoples lungs and hey! loads more COPD means more sales!
I might go and find a pub to have a rant in
-sd