They are being left in the dark. I have discussed features of this disease with medical professionals, and many of them were shocked and surprised by what I was saying. There are still doctors who don't know why ventilators aren't working. I can explain why ventilators aren't working. It's because the oxygen can't get into the blood, because the blood vessels are too injured. The endothelium
lifts off of the stroma, and then you have a fluid pocket, like a little water balloon, between the endothelium and the rest of the blood vessel wall. Oxygen can't diffuse through that. In fact, if the same thing is happening in the rest of the organs, guess what? It will prevent oxygen from
leaving the capillaries and oxygenating tissues, too.
But we've known SARS can do this for over a decade.
I mean, it's not like I haven't been poring over papers for hundreds of hours and everything.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious viral disease characterized by severe clinical manifestations of the lower respiratory tract. The pathogenesis of SARS is highly complex, with multiple factors leading to severe injury ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
From the Johns Hopkins map:
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
coronavirus.jhu.edu
Almost 7% is the case fatality rate among the currently known cases. The number of cases China alleges is so small now, it's basically a statistical blip. Even if you cut out all of the Chinese cases and deaths, the case fatality rate only changes from 6.95% to 6.99%. It's not even remotely believable that there have only been 84,000 cases in China, by the way. It's in the millions, guaranteed.
One thing that's important to keep in mind is that of those 3 million cases of this virus, many are still in the hospital and they're still fighting for their lives. We won't know if they will die or recover.
If, for instance, this pandemic were to stop
immediately, and no new cases were to occur, and then we waited a month, and another 100,000 people died before the rest started recovering, the case fatality rate would be around 10%. You have to take into account the lag effect.
A 7% case fatality rate tracks with SARS, which had a CFR of around 9.5%. This virus is very, very similar to SARS, so the idea that it would be significantly less lethal than SARS is mostly just wishful thinking.
Here, a new article that was just published that describes the pathogenesis of COVID-19:
www.nature.com
This virus causes
major clotting. Look at that 44-year-old patient with the undiagnosed diabetes. D-dimer of 13,800 ng/ml. That patient's blood is chunks.
No, I mentioned that. You're talking about the study in Santa Clara, right? Those serological studies are misleading, because they didn't correct for the inherent false positive rate of those antibody tests. Literally all of their results could be explained by false positives. It is entirely possible that next to none of the people they tested were previously infected.
Public officials are putting high hopes on new blood tests as a means of determining who has developed antibodies to COVID-19, and with those antibodies, presumed immunity. But experts caution the tests are largely unreliable and the science is still catching up.
khn.org
A project launched by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley scientists evaluated some of the more than 120 available antibody test kits.
www.ucsf.edu
That "50 to 80 times higher" figure is pretty much just false hope at this point.