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Re: Consider the source but
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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This explanation looks pretty solid. The virus itself does a lot of damage to your respiratory system. A weakened respiratory system is more susceptible to other problems, like bacterial infection causing pneumonia, but that is icing on the cake.
My recollection is that there were reports from China or Italy of deaths in ICUs where patients who had been on respirators for several days and who seemed to be doing a little better then had their hearts attacked by the virus and died quite quickly. TBH, not sure how reliable or common those reports are.
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