According to this article, patients with COVID-19 in the hospital (serious cases) may be harmed by ventilators. The real problem appears that the red blood cells cannot carry oxygen, so the person has a hard time breathing. It’s similar to carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide poisoning. COVID-19 causes the iron to separate from the hemoglobin in red blood cells. It’s this iron that carries oxygen around the body. If the red blood cell doesn’t have the iron, it cannot carry oxygen, and all organs start to fail. A quote from the article:
This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
When patients run out of O2 for bodily functions, the organs start to shut down in an effort to save the brain.
The malaria bug also prevents the red blood cells from carrying oxygen, and that’s why the anti-malaria drug works, it prevents SARS-COV-2 from freeing the iron from the hemoglobin.
