March the hospitals mainly cared for severely ill cope with 19 patients. Myers 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 those are things you know gradually learn on the job that its not purely a pathological one relation its something that really affects the whole body so. Researchers like Danny Yannick can use that kind of experience. He says the corona virus has little in common with influenza. A pathologist at hanovers in hospital yannick and his team analyzed tissue samples from deceased covert 1000 patients their findings are staggering. Figure 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 as 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 excess tissue growth sets in. Or 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 for half an. 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 that 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 if the source of beneficial and needs encourage middle who who doesnt for instance who has 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. But lets speak to christophe spinner hes a consultant physician in Infectious Diseases at the Technical University of munich thanks for joining us dr 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 youre in the 1st race because weve 19 pending and may we have learnt pretty much well we expected 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. Ameri embolism or amber listen in general and this is some of john injuring frost physician because the right the 19 d. C. S. 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 already expected in the very beginning is the respiratory disease primary lung involvement or involved manned and. Was the most common expected symptom combined with fewer and coughing but now if recognize that many other complications including strokes and out is. Really a fact patients being infected have arteries to him and is much more to learn about the virus and its cause because their their disease causes is very different from very mild to as symptomatic ones 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 greatest skill to treat it. Well to our understanding from today we have understood that south koreas through is effecting the entire body that means it is them it deceives and not the primary lung disease but in terms of the treatment and only systemic treatments have been explored or clinical studies focus this is to make treatments while there is different categories that means antiviral concepts but also anti inflammatory concepts recurse would be of understood some far if theyre divided replication itself is a problem but also be immune activation due to soccer members to infection and therefore these 2 different approaches or combined ones are currently under investigation and we are constantly learning more about this disease 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 of. That is really 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 covert 19 its how much is there left to learn about covered 19 we see a lot over the past few months but its them all. Well the speed of research we have seen in terms of soccer if true is amazing enough to never see in such a speed increasing medical knowledge before but this is very important and as 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 these disease and talk to christophe 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 eric 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 inpatients 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 spying though those are those proteins that source code to 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 614 g. Variant is more transmissible itll take more work to find out if the mutation really does d 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 in a 1000 or so on the planet has been officially listed as as a covert 19 case which which doesnt sound like much so i understand your confusion then 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 code at 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. 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