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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If the cocktail tamps down symptoms, we must use it as much as possible. Nothing's curing this for 12-18 months, but whatever keeps ventilators open for people whose symptoms are severe is desperately needed and should be used.
The virus doesn't kill anyone. The symptoms the virus causes kill people.
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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.
