by Oui
Mon Apr 6th, 2020 at 07:16:28 PM EST
BREAKING NEWS!!
More to follow .. Raab deputised ...
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[Update-1]
COVID-19: Sudden Storm of Aggravated Condition
Reporter's Notebook: Life and death in a Wuhan coronavirus ICU | Straits Times - Feb. 6, 2020 |
In an interview on Tuesday with Caixin, Dr Peng described his personal experiences in first encountering the disease in early January and quickly grasping its virulent potential and the need for stringent quarantine measures.
As the contagion spread and flooded his ICU, the doctor observed that three weeks seemed to determine the difference between life and death. Patients with stronger immune systems would start to recover in a couple of weeks, but in the second week, some cases would take a turn for the worse.
The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their Own Immune Systems | The NY Times - Apr. 1, 2020 |
The 42-year-old man arrived at a hospital in Paris on March 17 with a fever, cough and the “ground glass opacities” in both lungs that are a trademark of infection with the new coronavirus.
Two days later, his condition suddenly worsened and his oxygen levels dropped. His body, doctors suspected, was in the grip of a cytokine storm, a dangerous overreaction of the immune system. The phenomenon has become all too common in the coronavirus pandemic, but it is also pointing to potentially helpful drug treatments.