
Dispatch 5: Don't Stop Believin'
Radiolab
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Covid
A paper argued that we've been thinking about COVID as a lung disease. The lungs snatch the oxygen out of the air, then they give it to the blood where you've got this little protein called hemoglobin. So maybe the problem is not the lungs so much as it could be a problem with the blood. That's when I started doing some of those experiments. Unfortunately, by testing the patients that I've been having over the past couple of days, what I've found is the pulmonary hypertension probably isn't the main problem. There's aproblem with the lung, which is what we know.
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