My impresiion has been that the main difference between MERS, SARS, and SARS-2 on one side and normal coronavirus on the other side, is the tendency of the former to induce red blood cell clumping and to attack the alveoli. The red blood cell clumping effect has been looked at multiple papers co-authored by David Scheim. Have there been …
My impresiion has been that the main difference between MERS, SARS, and SARS-2 on one side and normal coronavirus on the other side, is the tendency of the former to induce red blood cell clumping and to attack the alveoli. The red blood cell clumping effect has been looked at multiple papers co-authored by David Scheim. Have there been some not so normal coronaviruses causing ILL illnesses emerging somehow here and there that noone ever heard about? Maybe. And maybe they didn't spread far enough for anyone to notice if they were highly lethal.
My impresiion has been that the main difference between MERS, SARS, and SARS-2 on one side and normal coronavirus on the other side, is the tendency of the former to induce red blood cell clumping and to attack the alveoli. The red blood cell clumping effect has been looked at multiple papers co-authored by David Scheim. Have there been some not so normal coronaviruses causing ILL illnesses emerging somehow here and there that noone ever heard about? Maybe. And maybe they didn't spread far enough for anyone to notice if they were highly lethal.
maybe whatever it was had been circulating for years...benign...it is what we did that put pressure on it? selective? the medical management?