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New 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 • 
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