There is research that suggests COVID-19 isn’t just stopping the mucociliary elevator and stopping the beating of the cilia and causing the alveoli to flood…it’s ALSO attacking your hemoglobin.
Research from some Chinese scientists (in particular, Wenzhong Liu and Hualan Li) has suggested that COVID-19 is attacking one of the four sites on hemoglobin that binds the oxygen....
So, COVID-19 stops your ability to move oxygen into your blood stream. It stops your ability to move the oxygen that manages to get in regardless. And lastly, it breaks down your oxygen-moving molecules, which are toxic to the tissue around them when they break down.
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