Case studies and autopsy results are confirming that, in some cases, COVID-19 can cause such severe lung damage that patients require a lung transplant to survive. ....
"We provide explicit evidence that COVID-19 can cause permanent damage to the lung in some patients for whom lung transplantation is the only hope for survival," said study principal investigator Dr. Ankit Bharat. He's chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program, in Chicago.
His team also discovered unique cells—called KRT17 epithelial cells—in the lung tissue of COVID-19 patients with irreversible damage. These cells have also been found in patients with end-stage pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly progressive lung disease.
The findings, the first of their kind on the issue, were published Nov. 30 in Science Translational Medicine. To date, eight COVID-19 patients have received double-lung transplants at Northwestern Medicine, the most performed at any health system in the world.
Pretty extraordinary (and not widely publicised, it seems.)
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"Case studies and autopsy results are confirming that, in some cases, COVID-19 can cause such severe lung damage that patients require a lung transplant to survive. ...."
Yes thats true. If this virus is allowed to take hold in the unprepared individual. And yet if the virus happens upon a fellow high in vitamin D and with appropriate treatments in the house, he probably will barely notice it. So why is there not zinc, ivermectin and HCQ in every fridge. Why is there not the hard-core fat soluble vitamins. The reason is because its a terrorist attack.
Can I tell you something about this Covid that I found out for myself?
I came up with some money and sent my patient a stash of vitamins. Now I meant to tell her that she should build up her vitamin D3 levels before she takes the vitamin A (Which was also hard core extreme strength). Now actually I think I did tell her this. But anyway she informed me she took the vitamin A and the vitamin D3 and K2. I reminded her that she wasn't supposed to take the vitamin A right away. Because vitamin A poisoning is maybe 90% vitamin D depletion.
So I got a bit of a shock when she told me that she took the vitamin A (Remember that this is the strongest vitamin A on the market) but when there were no ill effects I said to her .... Okay. then take one of each (A, K2 and D3) each day.
Now it turns out this was a horrible mistake that almost went tragically wrong. This lead to a huge panic. I'll give you the REST OF THE STORY ... if you publish this comment. Because its got a happy ending. But it shows that real healing requires constant coaching. Because things can go horribly wrong.
Okay great I can continue. So my patient woke up in the middle of the night and was struggling to breath. Just like she had been when she have Covid a few months back. So why the resurgence? Anyway she has strict instructions to keep HCQ in the house at all times. So she took a whole 200 milligrams of HCQ. This is when she knows that she is a bit sensitive to the HCQ and is really only happy breaking it in half. But this was an emergency.
So in the morning she books into the doctor who lines her up for various chest examinations. We were wondering if the Covid left scarring on her lungs. Then she contacts me. Her head was still muddled and probably from some level of hypoxia. So I got onto her kid and gave strict instructions for the use of the vitamin stash. She had 100 000 IU's of vitamin D3, she had zinc, selenium, ECGC (a green tea extract) to help the zinc absorb into the cells) Then after lunch she had ten vitamin C tablets. So 5 grams of vitamin C just to play a bit of catchup. But the most important thing was NOT to take the hard core vitamin A that I sent her. That was the problem. So she has to really build up her vitamin D levels before she takes any more vitamin A. In the end the vitamin A will help her. But the vitamin D has to be built up first.
Anyway the X-rays revealed some artery blockage which is why she has high blood pressure. But nothing specific to do with the lungs. But here is the take home story .....
..... After all this time she still has COVID lurking in her system. Ready to burst out if her system weakens. This is a very scary virus. The people who engineered this virus knew how to do gain-of-function studies. So the conservatives who play down this virus may make many very good points. But they aren't giving us the whole story.
The good news is, though we made one mistake which could have been fatal, we had everything we needed in the house to cope with the problem, and she was energetic and happy again within 48 hours.
So Covid hangs around. You get it. And you are likely to keep it a long time.
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