Doctors discovered a terrifying new coronavirus symptom that’s killing patients

[Chris Smith]

• Researchers have discovered a terrifying new way that the novel coronavirus kills patients.
• COVID-19 patients who died from severe complications developed a jelly-like substance in the lungs. The accumulation of this jelly can lead to respiratory failure and death.
• Researchers identified a drug that can slow down the production of the jelly and possibly save lives. They also found that steroids like dexamethasone can block the production of the deadly hyaluronan-based jelly.

Most coronavirus patients will recover without ever experiencing any serious complications. Some of them will not even show any symptoms indicative of COVID-19. But there are many people at risk of developing life-threatening complications. Age, gender, and a slew of preexisting conditions make it a lot more difficult for the immune system to battle the virus without help from therapeutics. And not all the covid treatments available right now will be able to save everyone.

But COVID-19 research has advanced at tremendous speed. The doctors who have been treating and studying coronavirus patients have learned how to save more lives than they could during the early months of the pandemic. The most recent discovery concerns a severe complication that can lead to death and seems to confirm one of the scariest coronavirus complications. The lungs in some people infected with COVID-19 fill with liquid, which then becomes a jelly that makes it impossible to breathe. Affected patients will need ventilation therapy as the respiratory failure worsens, and many have died from the horrifying condition.

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