Stream: social
Topic: 2 hr COVID-19 webinar from Chinese docs
Dave deBronkart (Mar 18 2020 at 14:48):
From 8-10 am ET today, a team of leading Chinese doctors presented their latest experiences with the virus. Some is surprising and new: they're finding it's not just respiratory - some patients have (permanent?) cardiac damage or kidney damage. Regarding location tracking, one doc responded to Q&A with: "1. Diagnose. 2. Diagnose. 3. Diagnose." (IOW, to hell with location tracking - test. Find out who's got the bug.)
FWIW I blogged the live tweetstream from Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz:
Latest #COVID19 info from China – live webinar just completed
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 18 2020 at 15:14):
The nasty cases trigger a cytokine storm which generally does nasty things to organs as the immune system goes crazy, so cardiac, kidney and other organ damage isn't necessarily a surprise. But it is a reminder that clearing the virus doesn't mean that you're back to the health you started with.
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