>healthitanalytics.com/news/artificial-intelligence-predicts-severe-disease-in-covid-19-patients "Higher levels of hemoglobin, the iron-containing protein that enables blood cells to carry oxygen to bodily tissues, were also strongly linked to subsequent respiratory distress. The team pointed out that this could be explained by other factors, such as unreported smoking of tobacco, which has been associated with increased hemoglobin levels."
I wonder about this part. Why would high hemoglobin be a risk factor if discoupled from smoking (you can take nicotine without smoking)
Nathan Foster
Thank you so much for your helpful input Sir, user's we need to distribute this.
Oliver Roberts
Re smoking, I've no idea what to think about that:
>PHE and Dr Matt completely ignored a much larger survey, mind, which originated from Wuhan Zhongnan Hospital, in which medical staff were reportedly astonished to discover that of the patients admitted presenting with Covid-19, only 1.4 per cent were smokers (out of a population in which more than half of men smoke cigarettes). It looked very much as though smokers were far, far less likely to catch the illness in the first place. This tallies a little with another stat from that New England Journal of Medicine survey — only about 11 per cent of those admitted with the virus were current smokers, compared with about 27 per cent of the population at large who smoke (and a much larger proportion if you factor in age). >Another Chinese study of 41 patients showed that of the 13 who were admitted to intensive care units, none were smokers. Just to muddy the waters a little further, a paper in the European Journal of Internal Medicine concluded that there was no greater significant risk to smokers from Covid-19 than to people who did not smoke. spectator.co.uk/article/if-anything-is-essential-right-now-its-cigarettes
One of reads added, "It was noted in London, after the Great Plague of 1665, that none of the capital's tobacconists had died from the disease."
If the virus kills by inducing hemoglobin dysfunction, why would having MORE hemoglobin make the disease worse? That’s the opposite of what you’d expect.
Logan Torres
>HCQ + Zinc would be really effective if it were attacking hemoglobin. HCQ alone would not. Can you explain this? Or link to an explanation of the mechanism. Cheers
Jonathan Jackson
because free iron in the body is toxic and can accumulate on organs, causing damage
Camden Kelly
This goes contrary to the AI saying that high hemoglobin was a predictor for bad outcomes?
