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Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital are reporting blood thinning drugs appear to help some Covid-19 patients.
They looked at 27-hundred patients and found 29 percent of the patients placed on ventilators died while receiving anti-coagulants, commonly known as blood thinners.
Among those not given blood thinners, 63 percent died.
That’s likely because the coronavirus seems to cause blood clots that can impact the lungs, kidney and brain.
It is considered a major contributing to death among Covid-19 patients.
The patients who were studied received a variety of blood thinning medications.
Researchers now must determine which ones work best and at what dosage.
Doctors don’t know exactly why Covid-19 leads to clotting but it has been seen in other viral infections that cause severe inflammation.
Posted – 5.7.20