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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So the new cocktail that stops the lung damage caused by this virus but not the lung damage done by other respiratory diseases? That doesn't seem likely. I'm all in favor of effective treatments, but I've got to say that the stories that I'm hearing about this cocktail don't fit with the stories I hear from my spouse when she returns from the teaching hospital where she cares for people who can't breathe for themselves. Obviously, I sure hope it works.
But if it treats the symptoms, it's not getting rid of the virus in the patient's body, and that means that exposing the patient to vulnerable people is crazy.
The virus absolutely kills people. It kills people by damaging their lungs and sometimes their heart.
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I thought the virus killed by one of two means, which were both symptom related:
1. Causing severe viral or bacterial pneumonia;
2. Stressing the heart by impeding breathing and ability to get oxygen into blood
Hence my comment that the virus isn't the cause so much as the havoc the virus invites by making the lungs open to infection and stressing the heart of those with compromised cardiac profiles.
But I'm no doc. Just reading shit like everyone else. So if the virus actually gets into the heart and does damage, I'll believe your wife on that.
