I posted this a day ago. It seems to have dropped beneath the radar once the bread was baked so re-posting here.
Russian doctor offers a new approach to treatment of corona-virus
https://yandex.ru/turbo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fsibkray.ru%2Fnews%2F7%2F933759%2F
Google translated from Russian:
Novosibirsk scientists know how to make coronavirus safe
April 2, 2020
Specialists at the Center for the Prevention of Thrombosis found a way to turn deadly COVID-19 into regular flu. About this discovery Sibkray.ru was told by the head of the Center, candidate of medical sciences Andrei Gromov.
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Andrei Alexandrovich, do you really know how to cure a coronavirus?
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No, I’m not a virologist and I won’t be able to treat this infection. But we look at the problem from a different perspective. We know how to minimize the effects of a viral infection. After all, people die not from the virus, but from its complications. If you manage to avoid them, then the great and terrible COVID-19 will be no more dangerous than ordinary flu and our immunity will be able to cope with it.
“And what is your confidence based on?” You yourself did not deal with patients with coronavirus?
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The fact is that the COVID-19 epidemic has become such a shock for mankind, such a planetary threat, that world science has taken unprecedented measures. Scientists began to exchange information in an emergency. Chinese researchers published detailed protocols on the course of viral infection in major journals. And I, as a specialist who develops technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of thrombosis, saw a weak spot in the therapy used today. The fact is that the whole world treats the virus, that is, the pathogen itself is trying to destroy. And we decided that until the anti-virus remedy was found, we should concentrate our efforts on preventing consequences and complications.
Now in the world against COVID-19, two methods of treatment are used. The first is antiviral drugs, Chinese doctors mainly used ribavirin. The second is powerful anti-inflammatory substances designed to prevent the development of pneumonia. Those that are really effective are heavy anti-malarial drugs, such as Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine. A lot has been written about them. But, as experience shows, these drugs are not enough.
“What do you suggest?”
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And we found a weak spot in this infection . As you know, it affects one organ - these are the lungs. There we have the main "battle". Therefore, it was the lungs that we decided to protect - to prevent pathology from developing in them. After all, pneumonia does not begin on the first day. The infection spreads quite slowly. At first it “occupies” the nasopharynx, then gradually “crawls” to the lungs. Therefore, doctors have the opportunity to buy time.
In Russia, the situation is not as serious as it was in China. About 23% of patients have an asymptomatic infection in our country, they have a small viral load, and their immunity copes with the disease on their own. In 63-65% of patients, a viral infection of the type of influenza or parainfluenza develops. And only in 14% everything flows into pneumonia. This is the data of Rospotrebnadzor. Up to a third of patients with complications in the form of pneumonia do not survive. And they die precisely from pneumonia. Moreover, it is disastrous. Even those recovering develop adhesions. That is, the lungs are pulled together by a scar of connective tissue, and a person remains with respiratory failure for life - in fact, becomes an invalid. So, if you stop the development of pneumonia, then the virus can cope with the virus itself.
“But doesn't our medicine know how to treat pneumonia?”
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This is not about ordinary pneumonia. Here is the thing. COVID-19 is a smart virus. Once in the lungs, he is waiting for an immune response. And immunity throws all its defenses there, these are white blood cells, and special proteins, and NK cells, and T-lymphocytes, and macrophages … They act like artillery shells or grenades. There is an explosive reaction. That is, they destroy the virus, but also damage the surrounding tissue. And lung tissue - it is all riddled with blood vessels. And a side effect of this battle is rapid pulmonary edema. Breathing begins to break. Moreover, the more our defenders “try”, the more they throw out inflammatory proteins, the more their native cells are damaged.
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It turns out, the more actively the body fights, the sooner it loses?
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In fact of the matter! And watch what happens. These "explosives" that immunity cells emit for our protection, they damage the walls of blood vessels. And then blood plasma penetrates into the lungs, into the respiratory vesicles (alveoli). It contains fibrinogen - a large fibrous protein, it is needed in order to close the damage to blood vessels. That is, in principle, fibrinogen protects us from bleeding. But in this case, he begins to work against the body.
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