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I'd guess that your wife's alveolar capillaries weren't blocked by microclotting.

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"Right from the start, it was obvious that the effect of SARS-CoV-2 virus on the alveolar sacs in the lungs of COVID-19 patients was different. Unlike most other respiratory viruses, this new virus was capable of infecting lung tissue all the way to the periphery."

But is the pulmonary damage primarily from direct infection of the lungs, or is the alveolar damage secondary to damage to the alveolar vasculature? I thought that there was now incontrovertible evidence of the latter. I can't find the 2021 article now.

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Getting oxygen into the lungs won't necessarily get it into the blood. There is pulmonary capillary shunting with covid. If the alveolar capillaries are blocked, oxygen may not make it outside the lungs, even if you increase ambient atmospheric pressure.

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Jan 18, 2022Liked by James Lyons-Weiler

My family experience supports avoiding vents, as 3 of 4 family use Bipap and had mild COVID, while I do not use Bipap and needed 02 to recover. Doc thought I was crazy for saying no to ventilation, while inpatient.

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I wonder if my 80 year old dad's covid case was mild because he sleeps with bipap. He was tired Sunday but only napped Monday. Fevered Monday. Recovered Tuesday.

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Wow. Wonderful article.

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Interesting. Studies have shown NAC significantly reduces the necessity of mechanical ventilation. It would be beneficial to use it earlier in the diseases process where it may help prevent the necessity of hospitalization. Wonder if this is why Amazon pulled it?

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Jan 18, 2022·edited Jan 18, 2022

I am confused... As far as I know there is no ace2 receptor in the lung, the respiratory insufficiency is caused indirectly, am I missing something?

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Thanks... So, it is in the lung... But not in the alveolar epithelium...

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Right. We now know the virus causes syncytia - connections between nearby cells. It's not 100% ACE2 dependent, and some of the pathophysiology is disruption of cellular membrane integrity/function.

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This damage doesn't need a virus to happen.

Pollution, humidity changes, toxins in food, past toxicity from flu shots... Heck they found a higher rate of "covid" among those who got the flu shot (some of it could be age, since older people tend to get it).

Back when they combined the flu and pneumonia, there were only 250 or so really the "flu".

Viruses are the medical industrial pharma complex way of creating a market, and covering up other causes.

Polio? DDT/pesticides

Mad cow/cjd pesticides

Smallpox - sanitation and dirty water

https://drsambailey.com/covid-19/why-nobody-can-find-a-virus/

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I am from (and live) in Southeast Asia. Not a doctor. During the SARS1 outbreak, I noticed from what I was reading that oxygen EXCHANGE seemed to be the biggest problem for patients. There was sufficient air getting in and out of the lungs but O2 saturation was low.

I did not personally know patients but I knew doctors who treated patients. I tried asking them "Why not perfuse blood mechanically and oxygenate externally just like during open heart surgery?". The idea was rubbished.

A couple of years later I read that doctors in USA actually DID do this in a procedure called ECMO.

Why then is ECMO not a useful strategy in keeping COVID-19 patients alive?

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We used HBO in the 1970s for infections, carbon monoxide poisoning, and gas gangrene. That was in a tank that would go to six atmospheres. The plastic tank in the picture, likely is only good for three atm. but should be enough to do what article describes. Good thing is many hospitals across America have those tanks, used for wound healing, etc and they could be put to use with COVID as it appears to have some merit.

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