DWQA Questions › Tag: pneumoniaFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesThe newly available vaccines have been criticized for claiming >90% effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 as judged by people developing two or more symptoms as the criteria to get tested for confirmation of illness. So the critics say, this leaves the possibility that up to 20% of people might still get infected, but remain asymptomatic. But wouldn’t those people very likely have benefitted nonetheless? Isn’t preventing symptoms what is most needed? And wouldn’t a mild, asymptomatic infection serve to further bolster their immunity and be a gain rather than a loss?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Coronavirus COVID-19369 views0 answers0 votesNew information has emerged that “COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing O2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans is from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory “tire out” or fatigue.” Is this true and a major factor in the morbidity and mortality?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Coronavirus COVID-19427 views0 answers0 votes
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