Blood Clots Discovered in COVID-19 Patients

Pathologist found blood clots in ‘almost every organ’ during autopsies on Covid-19 patients.

This beast is still surprising scientists.

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  2. A long time ago, probably in early February, people would ask for my opinion about this new virus.  I would tell them I am concerned about it because we do not know what it is.  A couple weeks later, as more became known of what it was doing in other countries, I said I was scared of it.  As we went into March and April it became obvious this thing was much worse than any “flu”. 
     
    Something was causing people to die, and die very fast.  What was weird was people being put on the ventilator and dying.  New York reported high numbers failing.  By this time I decided I was not going to be in high risk situations for a very long time.  May was hard to stay isolated on Mother’s Day, but I had to stay away from my mother. 
     
    Now that the researchers are getting the samples and data we are learning more about this beast.  Clotting, and micro-clotting, bone cells outside of the bone marrow, and massive organ damage are now looked at and will provide more clues as to what thing is.  It is confirmation that staying isolated is important to being safe.  So for the foreseeable future do not expect me to run around hugging people.

  3. KHOU:

    HOUSTON — As patients recover many are reporting symptoms lingering, we are learning more about the long-term health effects of a coronavirus diagnosis. Doctors are warning even people with mild cases to be on the look out for signs they have not fully recovered. 
    Let’s connect the dots.
    COVID-19 symptoms multiple organs affected
    When COVID-19 first hit it was mainly thought of as a respiratory disease, but now we know the virus also goes after the digestive track, heart, kidney and even the brain. And that is why we are seeing more symptoms than just a fever and a cough. The ever expanding list now includes everything from vomiting to the loss of senses like taste and smell.
    Doctors concerned brain damage reported 
    After beating back a virus your immune system should get to work repairing any damage done to organs. But what doctors are finding is that days after the virus has cleared a patient’s system they are still reporting debilitating exhaustion, problems with motor skills and even blood clots. One of the bigger concerns is brain damage. A small study in Britain found neurological complications in some coronavirus patients, though more research is needed.
    New virus support groups formed
    And that’s part of the problem since this is a new virus we just don’t know for sure what the long term effects will be. But support groups are popping up online with thousands of members. All people who say they are dealing with lingering symptoms weeks and even months after diagnosis. A reminder that there still is a lot we don’t know about COVID-19.

  4. oped from bill press at the hill:

    Jan. 20, 2021. EXCLUSIVE TO THE HILL: According to official documents obtained by our team of White House correspondents, President Trump’s last official act as president, just minutes before leaving the White House to head directly for Mar-A-Lago, pointedly boycotting incoming President Joe Biden’s Inauguration, was to issue one final presidential pardon.
    In a brief written statement, Trump said, “Under absolute powers bestowed on me as president under Article II of the Constitution, I am awarding a full prospective, presidential pardon to the person who has been the most unfairly investigated and persecuted by our corrupt system of justice: Donald J. Trump.”
    Donald Trump pardons himself? Don’t laugh. Admit it. You know as well as I, that’s exactly where this whole clown show is headed. I’m not a betting man, but I’d bet the ranch on this one: that somewhere in White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s office is a file on presidential self-pardons. The historical and legal research has already been done. The plan’s already in place. And the commutation of Roger Stone is only Trump’s first step in carrying out that plan.
    [continues]

  5. NYTimes:

    Trump’s Convention? ‘Everybody Just Assumes No One Is Going’

    […]
    Darin LaHood, a congressman from Illinois, put it bluntly: “Everybody just assumes no one is going,” he said. He is one of eight members of the House who told The Times that they would skip the convention — along with party heavyweights like Senators Charles Grassley, Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins, who have already indicated they won’t attend.
    The convention was initially planned for Charlotte, N.C., but Trump decided to move it after North Carolina’s governor, a Democrat, refused to guarantee that he would not enforce mask-wearing and social-distancing requirements at the event.
    The point is all but moot now: Jacksonville officials announced late last month that they would require all convention attendees to wear masks. They haven’t yet said whether they will restrict the number of people allowed in the arena.
    Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, refused to commit to a plan for the convention. “We will have to wait and see how things look in late August to determine whether we can safely convene that many people,” he said.

  6. denver post cartoon in 2016 is still relevant for GOP throwing a party to which no one comes

    See the source image

  7. The story of Roger Stone’s courtroom troubles has only just begun.  Check out Eric Garland’s thread on twitter.  Stone is still in deep shit.   Mueller saw T and Barr coming a mile away and took steps.

  8. Lincoln Project:

    July 14, 2020 – The latest ad from The Lincoln Project, “Walk of Courage,” asks the question, who in this time in our country’s history is meeting the moment: individual Americans or Republican senators?
    Facing spiking COVID-19 infection rates, mass unemployment, and the threat of violence, everyday citizens somehow find the courage to stand up to and fight for what’s right. Meanwhile, Republican Senators with a platform and the full force of the United States Constitution behind them, would rather scuttle away in shame from Donald Trump than risk a mean tweet from the president.
    “These Republicans know that Trump is unfit for office. They know what he’s doing to this country is wrong. Yet they say nothing. Their continuing silence is disqualifying.” said Lincoln Project co-founder, Reed Galen.
    These Senators have made their choice. They stood with Trump when they should have stood with America.
    Soon, the people of this country will get to make their choice, too.

  9. Eric Garland:
    By way of reminder, Mueller charged Stone in Jan 2019, likely aware that Barr was in to shut all the shit down before Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler were chairs of their committees and Pelosi got The Gavel. So they threw a minor indictment at Rog over him lying to Schiff.

     

     

     
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  10. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/joe-biden-texas-donald-trump-polls-close-tv-ads-2020-elections/
    Unless there is rampant voter suppression (and Repugz will try), TX might be blue?  I might really be blueINdallas! 
    About to mask up and vote in the run-off. Never voted on my birthday before.
    In light of today’s post, should we all be taking a baby aspirin?   Have they tried meds they use for folks with cycle-cell anemia.  Maybe anti-malarials have benefit to some folks.  The virus seems to to a lot of different things depending on a person’s constitution. 

  11. Another Teapot Tempest for the Tempestians to tempesticize over. Death penalty, as opposed to the COVID death penalty.
    Drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain. La di Da di Die.  

  12. Quelle symbolique 
    Having decided that ignoring people dying all over the place is not enough, they’ve decided to start actually killing people.  Vonnegut where are you?

  14. There were reports about blood clots a long time ago, this spring. That’s why Nick Cardero lost his leg and they clogged up the ECMO machine.  A neurosurgeon was removing a blood clot from a live patient’s brain, and he saw something he’d never seen before.  As he was sucking out the bigger clot, other clots were forming in real time as he watched, helpless.
     
    It’s a hideous virus!

  15. XR, lol. What I knew about Sables before yesterday was that people made stoles, coats and hats out of them in Russia, and I had never heard of Fishers. I Gotta say Wikipedia is a handy little resource.
     
     

  16. “ I would rather die with them than stop sharing hugs with the people I love.” -Mr. F

    The reason you shouldn’t think like that is because we are traumatizing an entire generation of doctors and nurses that have to deal with the horror of Covid and the trauma that’s associated with managing mass-death.  
     
    Plus, you might infect one of those healthcare workers if/when you need treatment.
     
    Covid punishes selfishness.

  18. i take a lot of criticism for my Covid-prevention protocol, fairly or not, but all i can say, after looking at the data, every day, is that many Americans are doing something wrong, but it sure as shit ain’t me.

    (patiently waiting for my medal)

  19. Well, let’s see what we can find…….oh, here’s one.  Will this work till a real one pops up?  There’s a bunch of these lying around.  And they’re REALLY cheap!
     

  20. Mr Cracker is like you Bink.   Currently he is wearing a mask when he leaves the house to work in the garden.  We live in the middle of 20 acres   He is wearing an n95 mask.
     

  21. Lol- thanks for sharing that, KGC, so i have a sense of what going overboard is.  Tell good Sir to chill a little- the disease vector is other people, specifically their breath and spit.   No other people- no Covid.  Sunlight kills Corona in 15 minutes or less, so that garden is a sanctuary- tell him to enjoy it!
     
    As i’ve said before, i entertain company!  Bent to my will, one household at a time, masks in house mandatory (but you’re only allowed in to use the bathroom).  Got a problem with that or spout some dumb conspiracy theory while you’re over and i’ll see you in 2022!  That said, entertaining company is a risk, and i may relax too much and fuck-up and my whole world comes crashing down.
     
    Ok, hang tough, keep your mouth shut, eyes forward💪❤️🇺🇸

  22. KGC, love what Mr. Cracker is doing!  Bink, me too. Sturge NOT that medal!!!  *gag*
     
    I’ve been self quarantined since March 1, and I live in Tejas.  I went through the NE, particularly NYC, because my kids live there. I watched Cuomo for 111 days.  Now it’s freakin’ deja vu all over again, here because they’re stupid ass holes! I’m both sad and mad!

  23. The mentally ill, orange bucket of lard is delusional again. Something about Obama stopping testing in the middle. Middle of what? 

  24. oh, one more thing, because it’s funny:  
     
    i have become close to some people in my family with whom i never imagined i’d get-along, because we are on the same page about safety-protocol.  If you understand what Covid-19 represents, you are my friend and ally; if you don’t, you’re a disease-vector and existential threat.
     
    Ok, i’m done.  Please resume informing me, thanks for it!

  27. What’s wrong with pooping in the garden ? It’s good for the inedible flowers.  Of course, edible flowers should have the composted type poop if you plan to actually ed them. 

  30. Thanks, Mr Sturgeone. And, plantation owners weren’t even saving flush water or t.p. Great point.
    Tobacco leaf or cotton bolls make great wipes, if you don’t cut yourself or catch tobacco fever.  

  31. Where are Ms Tylenol, Ms Wino, Ms Bethyboo, and Messers Solar, Nash 3.0, Ozzie, Ping, Prof 2, 300 and Trax ? 
     
    Inquiring people want to know. And, besides, I miss you.

  32. My bro-in-law, Captain Safety*, is remarkably unconcerned about 1. the covid19 ability to spread, and 2. the C19 ability to rot people out, and 3. the lethality of C19.  He’s not exactly cavalier, but he’s grouping w/pals, w/o masks, and being shoulder to shoulder.
    * Maybe I should bust him down to Buck Safety.   

  33. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/13/texas-primary-runoff-election/
    As I walked up to the polling place this morning, a man walked out the entrance, took his mask off and sneezed.  I was about 10’ away and I immediately changed direction as I loudly addressed the deity.   I waited quite awhile before I walked in.  Only two working the polling place; a man in his late 70s (my guess)and a woman in her late 30s who seemed to be having her first go at it, but bless her for doing it.  I was actually shocked to see someone that age manning the desk.  

  34. Covid 19 now a pre existing condition
    and SFB is trying to get rid of protections for people with pre-existing conditions
     

  35. oped from someone who might know what he’s talking about in NYTimes sounds the alarm:

    […]

    Had we done it right the first time, we’d be operating at near 100 percent now, schools would be preparing for a nearly normal school year, football teams would be preparing to practice — and tens of thousands of Americans would not have died.

    This is our second chance. We won’t get a third. If we don’t get the growth of this pandemic under control now, in a few months, when the weather turns cold and forces people to spend more time indoors, we could face a disaster that dwarfs the situation today.

    John M Barry is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

  37. And in the ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ meme, a plague squirrel in Colorado.  Yeah.  Like it is an unknown thing out West.  The isolated case of plague is common, but the media is going all out to find scary things.  When a prairie dog colony gets infected it gets gassed and buried to stop the spread of the disease.  That was the colony in Broomfield.  The squirrel is in the foothills.  Flea and tick spray and don’t play with plague rodents.
     
    A funny in a few Colorado facebook threads was about “who had plague squirrel in Morrison?”  “I had plague squirrel in the Springs, does that count?” which was picked up by the media and is now bouncing around Twitter.

  38. Trump’s next pardon to protect himself? The federal judge overseeing the case of Ghislaine Maxwell has ordered her detained pending her trial date next July. Denied bail. She will not be released.

    I still think this is why Barr pushed out the US attorney but Berman masterfully kept his deputy in charge. Barr wanted to stop this prosecution, maybe for Trump but Epstein worked for his father and Barr worked for Epstein’s law firm. The conflict of interest is huge.

  39. I now have Mary Trump’s book in my hands.  But I’m only half way through Claudius the God.  I really want to start the trump book immediately.  oh my….  as the books turn…

  41. The lady in charge of my polling place is elderly. She started working the polls as an apprentice to her late mother 61-years ago. When she sees me drive up, she walks outside to greet me and escort me inside. The reverse occurs when I depart along with the added comfort of a hug and a tug on Rosie’s door insuring that it is tight.
    Sixty-one years–not a bad run for a woman of color in the deep south. I bet her mom led the crusades.

  44. KC, CV-19 would only be a pre-existing condition for someone who had it then had a recurrence of symptoms without a new exposure and changed insurers between the two episodes.  Kinda like the flu – you get it and you’re covered for that episode by your insurer – get it again, you’re covered again.  The rub would come if you had it and changed insurers then had a recurrence of the old exposure. Without the ACA protection, the new Insco could deny coverage under a pre-existing condition exclusion.  But where teh REAL rub comes in is that if you need treatment for, say, clotting or organ damage down the road under a new insurer you would be out of luck under SFB’s cruel policy of allowing Inscos to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.

  46. Pogo
    The side effects as described in today’s post are a pre-existing condition.

  48. Into the first chapter of Mary Trump’s book.  Today’s press conference proves every word she says about Donald Trump is absolutely true.  He is one very mentally ill semi human.  

  49. For a change of pace, SFB has no idea who is coaching what team or when.  Nick Saban or Lou Saban, just a couple of names and he does not care.

  52. Just in case Trump doesn’t want to leave the White House willingly, Joe could just introduce him to the next resident.

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  54. KGC, that’s Champ.  here’s a story from huffpo in 2018 that mentions him and another dog:

    Biden and Major, two buds.

    On Saturday, the former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, adopted a German shepherd named Major from the Delaware Humane Association, the animal shelter posted on social media.

    The Bidens had already been fostering Major for the shelter and decided to adopt him permanently. The Delaware Humane Association wrote that Major came from a litter of puppies that someone had surrendered to the shelter who were “not doing well at all.” After the shelter posted about the pups on social media, the former vice president “caught wind of them and reached out immediately.”

    The association said in a statement sent to HuffPost that all of Major’s five siblings have also found homes.

    Multiple photos on the group’s Facebook page show Biden posing with the dog, including one of the pair apparently looking at photos of Major when he was a small puppy.

    “We are so happy to welcome Major to the Biden family, and we are grateful to the Delaware Humane Association for their work in finding forever homes for Major and countless other animals,” said Joe and Jill Biden and the family’s other German shepherd, Champ, in the association’s statement.

    When the family got Champ in 2008, Joe Biden received some criticism from animal welfare advocates for going to a high-volume breeder rather than a shelter or rescue group.

    On Saturday, though, many were praising the Bidens for opting to adopt from a shelter. 

    Patrick Carroll, executive director of the Delaware Humane Association, said it was “an honor” to send Major to the Bidens.

  55. KC, we don’t disagree. We look at things differently. A preexisting condition is important only if you have attempted to change insurers after the initial insult. The lesson wrt CV-19 is simple. If you get it do not change health insurers to save money. It could cost you shitloads. 

  56. Those of us whose employers change insurance companies every few years to save money, are at their mercy.    

  57. And what about the 20 million people SFB is trying to kick off their insurance by terminating the ACA.
     

  58. I may be an optimist, but he and the asshole Repugovernors will lose that case. ACA is here at least for about another year – longer if he isn’t re-elected. Unless SCOTUS schedules oral argument early next term and rules quickly (unlikely) protection for re-existing conditions will survive past the election. 

  64. could this requirement in ACA have been the reason for side-lining CDC from getting data? 

    politico:

    Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley issued a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday requesting a report detailing the Trump administration’s response to racial health disparities exacerbated by the Covid-19 outbreak.
    […]
    Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, HHS is required to submit a report to Congress detailing its efforts to alleviate racial health disparities every two years through the Office of Minority Health. The Trump administration has not submitted a report for 2017 or 2019. In their letter, Warren and Pressley — who have written to the Trump administration repeatedly on the issue of minority health during the pandemic — requested these reports and an explanation for the delay in submitting them.
    The lawmakers also asked for updated reports from HHS’ six subcommittees and the agency as a whole with updates on what the administration has done to alleviate racial health disparities over the last five years, as required under the terms of the Affordable Care Act.
    “[HHS] is required by law to report biannually to Congress on its progress to address health disparities, but these reports appear to have stopped under the Trump Administration,” the lawmakers wrote.
    Warren and Pressley are requesting a response from the Trump administration by July 28. In April, a measure drafted by the two lawmakers, mandating the Centers for Disease Control and other HHS agencies collect and report coronavirus demographic data. . Parts of the legislation mandating that the agencies report the data were passed in a relief package. So far, the CDC has issued two reports required by the bill.

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