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Apr 2, 2020 β’ 12 tweets β’ 2 min read
Summary of a hypothesis for Sars-Cov-2:
We now suspect that viral proteins attack the B1 subunit of hgb. This may effectively deactivate this subunit. If the virus does this to 100% of your hgb, this would leave you with an spO2 of 75%. This explains laughing on the phone at 75%
With only three, we are not taking advantage of the highest affinity binding site. This leaves us on the steep portion of the curve without our usual reserve and shifts the whole curve to the right. It also changes the shape of the sigmoid, less cooperation and steeper.