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The patient is a generally healthy 59 year old man with high blood pressure.

Just days before this image was created, he was asymptomatic.

But now those green areas show where the infection has damaged tissue in the lungs.

For many, Cove in 19 will be mild, but for others it's deadly.

This'll videos about the latter path have the virus kills will start in China.

191 confirmed Cove in 19 patients were in a hospital in Wuhan.

54 died.

Of those, 54 50 had a condition known as a R.

D s acute respiratory distress syndrome is a condition that stops oxygen from reaching the organs you have Air hunger means that the camp read.

There's a very strong correlation between the people who develop ideas and the people who die.

Air D s is not unique to Cove in 19 such a long list of causes.

Infection people with HIV AIDS.

If you get into a big motor vehicle accident and sustained multiple injuries to multiple organs that causes areas SARS and murder now things that you inhale and that can be toxic and cause the household bleach.

You know, war gases, mustard gas and phosgene to the people who wait to see that was contaminated with vitamin E ass today, and those patients were also developing ideas.

Here's what's actually happening when you get aired.

Yes, when we breathe in air, oxygen goes down our windpipe and fills the lungs.

Specifically, that small air sex at the end of the lungs are the key to air exchange in the body.

So that's why nature has created our evolution has created this very, very.

The barrier is so thin, it's just a few micro meters in size.

So the oxygen has to go through just a little bit of college in the cell.

That lengthy calculus into the red.

Once it gets into the red blood cell, then the blood takes it, you know, back into the hard and from there to the west.

And this is the key to understanding why Cove in 19 is killing people.

That entire wall off the air sac gets damaged by the virus.

Think of it like a thick layer of paint on the inside of the of the walls of a room with a six layer of mold on the walls on the inside of the room.

That's what it looks like as that wall becomes sticker, oxygen can no longer pass into the bloodstream and your organs begin to suffocate.

So if you're sick, you might be asking yourself a mind, the mild path or the serious path.

A good indication is whether you have severe shortness of breath and for how long.

Those are indications the virus has progressed lower into the lungs.

One small study of hospitalized patients in China found that 0 to 2 days after development of symptoms, chest scans were coming back normal for more than half of patients.

Keep in mind these are patients that were sick enough to be in the hospital, but within 3 to 5 days after symptoms started that flipped in, 91% of hospitalized patients had significant respiratory issues.

As you progress beyond the 7 to 10 days states, that's when you knows the area seems to be developing, and once it develops, it develops rapidly fast compared to your ideas developing from, let's say, another cause and these patients seem to be doing much worse over a relatively faster period of time.

Many people have mild or even no symptoms with the virus, but the Longer Cove in 19 affects your lungs.

The higher the risk of serious respiratory issues.

And the longer you're on a ventilator, the less likelihood you will come off the ventilator.

That is tthe e blunt truth of this situation when I saw this in our first patient and you see you know the extent of the damage and how it affects both slugs and various parts, the loves and it's much more striking, even even for somebody who's been in practice for almost 20 years.

And that's what happened to this patient, uh, just about one week after being at our hospital.

Unfortunately, he passed away.

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My goal of trying to get this out into the public is so that they understand, Um, the severity of the problem that we're seeing and why the social distancing and the flat nick curve and every other hashtag that's come up in the past couple weeks is just so so important is because this is a community wide problem.

It's a global problem, and it's gonna take a community solution, right?

Everybody has a role to play.

And if you're not in the healthcare field right now, your role is to stay home.

All right, Because again, the virus doesn't move on its own.

People move, people transmit the virus.

Event later.

Less likelihood.