Blood clots may be what's killing COVID-19 patient
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Posted On: 04/22/2020 5:40:42 PM
Blood clots may be what's killing COVID-19 patients. Doctors have been saying that the patients don't have the typical kind of pneumonia seen as complications from influenza. Now they think that people are developing many tiny clots, and/or big ones that cause strokes and heart attacks.
Article is well worth reading:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04...src=nl_tyh
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38 percent of 184 covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit had blood that clotted abnormally. The researchers called it “a conservative estimation” because many of the patients were still hospitalized and at risk of further complications.
Early data from China on a sample of 183 patients showed more than 70 percent of patients who died of covid-19 had small clots develop throughout their bloodstream.
Article is well worth reading:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04...src=nl_tyh
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