Any information on the cross or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at the. Science fair. You. Can have devastating effects for the lungs but dont isnt nurses are discovering new damaging effects every day from cardiac arrest to kidney failure and even unexplained tissue growth. The new more holistic understanding of the disease is emerging can it lead to better treatments and higher survival rates. Welcome to this coverage 19 special on whats tough you with us now months of past since coronavirus entered our lives but were still learning about what its capable of. A disease that may begin its assault in the lungs has proven it can wreak havoc on many other parts of the body but as our understanding increases so does our ability to fight at 19. Christine meyer is a Junior Doctor on the intensive care unit in hanover very hospital since march the hospitals mainly cared for severely ill cope with 19 patients. Meyer says dealing with an unknown virus was a challenge to begin with and she was stunned by how quickly some patients would slip beyond help. You know to clear here talking with us even making calls to their families than 2 hours later we have to ventilate them the doctors on the unit keep all patients under close observation constantly measuring their blood oxygen levels and sharing their impressions with one another. Its becoming apparent that covert 19 is not only about the longs it damages the kidneys to. People in the loop they all get blood thinners doesnt think you know gradually learn on the job that its not purely a pathological monkey condition its something that really affects the whole body so. Researchers like Danny Yannick can use that kind of experience he says the coronavirus has little in common with influenza. A pathologist that had overs in hospital yannick and his team analyzed tissue samples from deceased covert 1000 patients their findings are staggering. Blow out of this weve come to realize that almost 50 percent of intensive care patients actually develop acute kidney failure is just the lungs get to them before that does for ya nixies koeppen 1000. 00 is less of a long affliction and much more of a fast killer illness. A severely ill coronavirus patient develops embolisms or blockages in blood vessels. On top of that within hours uncontrolled access to shoot growth sets in. The oxygen demand is probably so great that under the stress of infection the body tries to supply itself with more oxygen by creating new blood vessels but it doesnt work well for half a lot of money from 2 new. Yonex findings have spread rapidly through the medical world as a result 12 International Teams have formed to continue with the research. Does the virus cause excess tissue growth or is it the bodys final cry for help. Or we still dont know if the fresh blood vessel tissue the major New Discovery weve made actually is something which is positive or negative is it perhaps something that shouldnt be triggered the source of beneficial needs encouragement who doesnt have that sense which is the answer could offer the basis for new ways of treating covert 19 but since it will probably take a few more years to understand doctors like heston meyer will have to keep a vigilant eye on their patients. Well lets speak to christophe spinner hes a consultant physician in Infectious Diseases at the Technical University of munich thanks for joining us dr shed been a so we know coronavirus starts to attack the body via the airways and lungs but what we didnt what do we know about its effect on other parts of the body. Well suit your ring the 1st grade because weve 19 pending and i may have learnt pretty much well respected in the very beginning isolated long involvement we now have learned. To can already affect every cell of the body and this new cells in like my own cot effect and many other complications that we have seen including. Mary embolism cry and bullets men general and this is some of john injuring frost physician because the right the 19 deceased is huge. Is it a very different to disease disease to what we thought we were dealing with just a few months ago. I think down to this question nice clearly yes it is going to be expected in the very beginning is the respiratory disease primary lung involvement or involved manned and money was the most common expected symptom combined with fewer and coughing but now if recognize that many other complications including strokes and out is can really affect patients being infected with south korean a virus to him and hes much more to learn about the virus and its course because their their disease causes is very different from very mild to as symptomatic worms but also patients being severely affected resulting in the need for mechanical ventilation for many weeks and it is about to understand what the Different Reasons for this is and when it does affect other parts of the body to just the lungs does that mean it takes greater skill to treat it. Well to our understanding from today we have understood thats our screen of virus 2 is affecting the entire body that means it is there me to see another primary landiss but in terms of the treatment and only systemic treatments have been explored or clinical studies focus this is them in treatments while theres different categories that means antiviral concepts but also anti inflammatory concepts recourse would be if understood simple are a start the viral replication itself is a problem but also the immune activation due to south korean virus to infection and therefore these 2 different approaches or combined ones are currently under investigation. And we are constantly learning more about this disease and ways so is the way we treat it also constantly changing. Well i think yesterdays survey of the 1st antiviral substance of druck that is available in the us and will become available in the European Union very soon it is a 1st step but weve also learned that x. Amount has this year on it that is 3 using immune activity is also decreasing mortality and severity you have to see in c. B. S. 1000 patients there is a couple of 100 other drugs being under investigation and also other concepts of treatment and while the protection of covered 19 is very different around the roles it is very clear that we will learn from the ongoing studies within the next month pretty much more about fighting against 19 how much is there left to learn about covered 19 weeks previously learnt a lot over the past few months but its them all. Well the speed of research we have seen in terms of soccer to is amazing ive never seen such a speed in increasing medical knowledge before but this is very important and its then tire world is fighting a big 19. I think there will be much more novel ideas and novel aspects that will help us in fighting against this disease dr christoph spinner from the Technical University of munich thank you very much for joining us thank you. And now its your chance to ask the questions has asked science correspondent derek williams. Whats the d. C. 614 g. Mutation. The d 614 gene mutation is a mutation in a variant of the virus thats predominantly found in europe and most of the u. S. And theres been lots of speculation it might be links to either higher fatalities or or higher transmissibility in patients one study from the us that still under peer review claims to show the mutation makes the virus much more infectious by by stabilizing and increasing its number of speier x. Though those are those proteins that sars co 2 uses to attach to cells but those researchers were only working with cell cultures so so their results dont necessarily translate one to one in the real world though other studies have supported the idea that the d. 614 g. Variant is more transmissible itll take more work to find out if the mutation really does make it more infectious in us rather than just in our cells and culture. Why is covert 19 considered a pandemic when less than one percent of the worlds population has been infected. Currently only around one person than a 1000 or so on the planet has been officially listed as a 19 case which which doesnt sound like much so i understand your confusion and and the term is a little fluid the w. H. O. Which which by the way sat on the fence for weeks in the early stages of the outbreak before deciding to call covert 1000 a pandemic defines pandemic pretty simply as the world wide spread of a new disease. So all it is is an epidemic but one that spread over a number of countries or continents and is moving swiftly and affecting large numbers of people however the word isnt attached or tied to a specific number. And you can post your questions to derek on how you choose channel and if youd like to keep up with the latest developments on the coronavirus to subscribe to our newsletter just log on to d w dot com slash corona dash newsletter corona dash that. 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