| | | It sounds like the virus enters the body like a Morning-star inflicting damage in many different ways. By the time patients need hospitalization, they don't all have the same problems. So the MDs work like crazy to find what works for each patient.
I haven't seen anything that seems extremely promising, other than using some medicines for high altitude sickness. Hopefully something definitive is on the horizon...
This is a good read making it clear it is much more dangerous than a typical flu...
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
By Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine Matacic
Apr. 17, 2020 , 6:45 PM
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surges past 2.2 million globally and deaths surpass 150,000, clinicians and pathologists are struggling to understand the damage wrought by the coronavirus as it tears through the body. They are realizing that although the lungs are ground zero, its reach can extend to many organs including the heart and blood vessels, kidneys, gut, and brain.
“[The disease] can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences,” says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz of Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, who is leading multiple efforts to gather clinical data on COVID-19. “Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”
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