Fascinating article on the coronavirus:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2

In April, blood clots emerged as one of the many mysterious symptoms attributed to Covid-19, a disease that had initially been thought to largely affect the lungs in the form of pneumonia. Quickly after came reports of young people dying due to coronavirus-related strokes. Next it was Covid toes — painful red or purple digits.

What do all of these symptoms have in common? An impairment in blood circulation. Add in the fact that 40% of deaths from Covid-19 are related to cardiovascular complications, and the disease starts to look like a vascular infection instead of a purely respiratory one.

Months into the pandemic, there is now a growing body of evidence to support the theory that the novel coronavirus can infect blood vessels, which could explain not only the high prevalence of blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks, but also provide an answer for the diverse set of head-to-toe symptoms that have emerged.

“All these Covid-associated complications were a mystery. We see blood clotting, we see kidney damage, we see inflammation of the heart, we see stroke, we see encephalitis [swelling of the brain],” says William Li, MD, president of the Angiogenesis Foundation. “A whole myriad of seemingly unconnected phenomena that you do not normally see with SARS or H1N1 or, frankly, most infectious diseases.”

[chia]

1. I keep repeating this information to anyone who sees it as 'just another kind of flu'

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good for you. Keep at it! It's important. And thanks for stopping by!

[chia]

3. Oh I will, and thank you! From the first couple reports I read by doctors, how blood was clotting

right before their eyes (one was trying to remove a blood clot and could see more clots forming, the other said the blood was actually clotting in the tube), I've been trying to impress this on anyone I know who doesn't seem to get the significance. I remember reading one right-winger online saying his friend had died of a heart attack and the doctors were saying it was because he had Covid and he was fuming that the medical authorities were saying 'all the deaths were from Covid when it was clearly a heart attack...' It wasn't a site where I would've wanted to sign in and argue the point though...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Kick for exposure!

[malaise]

5. K & R - have you seen this?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/trump-weighs-sanctions-on-china-finance-sector-over-hong-kong
Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Expected to Begin Mass Output This Year
A front-running Covid-19 vaccine candidate being developed in China is expected to be available as soon as the end of this year, according to a report published in the official Wechat account of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

The vaccine, jointly developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products and China National Biotec Group Co., has completed phase II testing and may be ready for the market at the end of this year or early next year, said the report.

The production line for the vaccine will be fully disinfected and closed in preparation for output to start Saturday, and will have a full manufacturing capacity of 100 million-120 million vaccines each year.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I have not seen this, my dear malaise!

Thanks for the link; I'll check it out.

[Kali]

7. good article, thanks Peggy