Evidence is emerging that this coronavirus doesn't act solely like a respiratory virus. And the blood vessel complications that emerge in more severe COVID-19 cases could have implications for how we treat it.
The issue at the moment, he says, is that we don't know what are the timings of all these events and how they all fit together, in someone with a severe case of COVID-19.
COVID-19 can thought of as an "unholy trinity", he says, comprising the infection, the inflammation or the immune response to the virus, and the blood clots.The question, Dr McFadyen says, is how you disconnect this trinity to prevent the problem in the first place.
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