How Coronavirus kills
Rarely has Health been in the forefront in the same way it is today. As we all hunker in our bunkers from an invisible enemy, we thought it might be interesting to know exactly what that enemy would do if it caught us. An article in AAAS Science Magazine gives a clue…
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
Wadmin, Couzin-Frankel, Kaiser, and Matacic in Science Magazine, Apr 2020
from the article…
“What follows is a snapshot of the fast-evolving understanding of how the virus attacks cells around the body, especially in the roughly 5% of patients who become critically ill. Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen. Without larger, prospective controlled studies that are only now being launched, scientists must pull information from small studies and case reports, often published at warp speed and not yet peer reviewed. “We need to keep a very open mind as this phenomenon goes forward,” says Nancy Reau, a liver transplant physician who has been treating COVID-19 patients at Rush University Medical Center. “We are still learning.””
3d model based on computerized tomography scans of a 59-year-old male patient who died of Coronavirus at George Washington University Hospital
