First Virus Death Now Put 3 Weeks Earlier

[Kathianne]

They expect to find more than the two that died at home:

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/04/22/first-u-s-coronavirus-death-happened-weeks-earlier-previously-thought/

[Kathianne]

Funny how we are learning more day-by-day:

https://news.yahoo.com/alarmed-covid-patients-blood-thickened-133000631.html


Alarmed as COVID patients' blood thickened, New York doctors try new treatments
Reuters
By Jonathan Allen
,Reuters•April 22, 2020
By Jonathan Allen


NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - As the novel coronavirus spread through New York City in late March, doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital noticed something strange happening to patients' blood.


Signs of blood thickening and clotting were being detected in different organs by doctors from different specialties. This would turn out to be one of the alarming ways the virus ravages the body, as doctors there and elsewhere were starting to realize.


At Mount Sinai, nephrologists noticed kidney dialysis catheters getting plugged with clots. Pulmonologists monitoring COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilators could see portions of lungs were oddly bloodless. Neurosurgeons confronted a surge in their usual caseload of strokes due to blood clots, the age of victims skewing younger, with at least half testing positive for the virus.


"It's very striking how much this disease causes clots to form," Dr. J Mocco, a Mount Sinai neurosurgeon, said in an interview, describing how some doctors think COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is more than a lung disease. In some cases, Mocco said, a stroke was a young patient's first symptom of COVID-19.


As colleagues from various specialties pooled their observations, they developed a new treatment protocol. Patients now receive high doses of a blood-thinning drug even before any evidence of clotting appears.

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