This is from something Chris Hayes retweeted, if you keep chasing through RTs you’ll get to a document that is translated from Chinese that is apparently a summary of what China believes/knows about this so far, and some data they have from studies/research.
The best news is that it appears people who get it do develop some degree of immunity for some period of time, which is extremely important in terms of these outbreaks subsiding.
https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1236455333767323653?s=19
Here’s the tweet linking to the guide on treatment and diagnosis.
https://twitter.com/KrutikaKuppalli/status/1236478693767122945?s=19
A couple of my key takeaways as a layman:
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It attacks (or at least impacts) way more than the lungs. They’ve noted changes to the spleen, heart and blood vessels, liver and gall bladder, kidneys, and other organs.
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As we know already, the e primary symptoms it presents with are fever, dry cough and fatigue. Severe cases often present with shortness of breath and low levels of oxygen in the blood one week after symptoms start. It can take a rapid turn for the worse from there in a few ways, “severe patients can rapidly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, difficult to correct metabolic acidosis, coagulation dysfunction and multiple organ failure.”
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There have been severe cases with low grade fevers or even NO fever.
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Looks like there may be ways to diagnose without testing for antibodies or COVID-19 nucleic acids, based on low white blood cell counts. Also looks like there are some good indications from chest imaging. Hopefully hospitals can use these methods as the CDC continues to lag on testing.
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The treatment for mild cases includes oxygen and anti-virals and supporting organ function, among other things.
My big question is what percentage of American doctors have even seen this? Is CDC distributing this info? I doubt it. What a tragedy if we aren’t using the best info available to treat patients here.