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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
COHR 181.67+2.4%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST
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To: kimberley who wrote (9288)4/19/2020 12:29:56 PM
From: Winfastorlose  Read Replies (2) of 26710
 
Since they really don't know much of anything about the virus yet, (some say they have still yet to really isolate it) here are a couple of possibilities. Viruses are usually parts of the anatomy specific. Perhaps the virus is a blood virus and attacks hemoglobin. This would start in the lungs, as hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. Low levels of oxygen can cause failures of all organs.

Or by attacking the lungs in general as it was originally thought to do, this would affect oxygen levels which could then possibly lead to other organs failing.(thus the new observations that symptoms resemble high altitude sickness and treatment should be accordingly). Heart, brain (neurological), kidneys, etc. I have emphysema for example, and this is a danger that I have to face. Organ failure is what usually kills emphysema patients.and if my oxygen levels get too low, I can feel problems developing with my heart. Thankfully, my family has always had very strong hearts (no heart attacks in my family) and a hit of Ventolin (Albuterol) takes care of the problem.

Or possibly they are misinterpreting what is happening. They are counting any death as a Covid death where the genetic materiel is found in the patient that has expired (or even is ASSUMED to be present) . Random testing is now showing that up to 15% of the population in the world carries this genetic material whether they are showing disease symptoms or not. Perhaps these patients are not dying of the virus, but of something else and it is assumed the virus was the cause.

Everything is sheer speculation at this point. And it will likely be years before they truly understand this virus.
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