Washington Post: A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients - Once thought a relatively straightforward respiratory virus, covid-19 is proving to be much more frightening By Ariana Eunjung Cha
They’ve since seen how covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain.
Patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease deteriorating within minutes and dying at home.
Autopsies have shown some people’s lungs fill with hundreds of microclots. Errant blood clots of a larger size can break off and travel to the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack.
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