Important details here on how the virus strikes:
Many New Yorkers with COVID-19 waited too long to call 911. Why?
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Many New Yorkers with COVID-19 waited too long to call 911. Why?
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As doctors' understanding of the disease improved, they discovered that many patients had greatly diminished lung capacity long before they displayed those serious symptoms that were supposed to make them call 911.
Klein said COVID-19 can cut lung capacity by as much as 50%
Klein said COVID-19 can cut lung capacity by as much as 50%
before a patient even knows it, like a form of "cryptic" pneumonia. People can feel sick but not short of breath.
"People are at home with these really low oxygen levels," he said, "and then they hit that tipping point, and it just gets beyond the point of return — in the case
"People are at home with these really low oxygen levels," he said, "and then they hit that tipping point, and it just gets beyond the point of return — in the case
of this data, the point of cardiac arrest."
