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- people are getting out of breath due to low oxygen, and suffering hypoxic collapse and organ failure to death
- this isn't like pneumonia, I can confirm having seen imaging on CT q/ bilateral findings ground glass opacities which is novel
- this disease seems to affect ability of Iron binding to heme
- Hydroxychloroquine protects hemoglobin in malaria, and seems to affect the same here
- oxygen, not ventilator appears to be best direction here [there is some complexity there and a professional will have to seek out advice for all of this]
Obviously, I disagree vehemently with this person on many things but this should be about observation and data and not persons. The above video, in my opinion has merit (and I am a physician though not involved with patient care). I can't speak to the details of treating ARDS vs COVID-19 because I have neither ICU nor pulmonology experience. But Dr. Kyle-Sidell's observations seem valid and if so, urgently need attention. Some of the comments to the video are lamentable but others also make sense like the one that leads to this: https://medium.com/@gunthersch…d19-patients-35190f47988a apparently by a non physician researcher.
The thing is, it is fine to post a video (this one had over half a million views) but hopefully he has also gone to some valuable contacts like his consultants at the hospital or maybe a senior physician he met during residency or fellowship. What is obviously needed here are studies! I hope Dr. Kyle-Sidell is working on having someone or a group do those studies. I expect them to take time and be difficult. Anyway, very interesting. Thanks Navid