The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy.
When the coronavirus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess as to what was causing the strange constellation of symptoms. What could explain why patients were losing their sense of smell and taste, developing skin rashes, struggling to breathe and reporting memory loss, on top of flu-like coughs and aches?
At hospital morgues, pathologists were busily dissecting the disease’s first victims and finding some answers.
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Pathologists say that autopsies performed on COVID victims have clued in doctors that blood thinners could prevent microscopic blood clots in patients, and raise the alarm about ventilators.