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The highly infectious, rapidly spreading coronavirus around the world can be fatal to some because, it majorly attacks a very delicate but essential and vulnerable part of the body, the lungs.
Unlike most coronaviruses which commonly affects the nose, throat and sinuses, COVID-19 advances to affect the cells of the airways and lungs as well. According to Dr. Otto yang, a UCLA expert on infectious disease, “the virus basically hijacks the cell and reprograms it genetically to make more copies of virus.”
Researchers with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention studied nearly 45,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China and they discovered that 81% of those cases were mild, while 14% were severe and 5% were critical. No deaths occurred in the mild or severe cases but about half of the critical cases led to death.
The mild cases resembled the flu with dry cough and low-grade fever. In severe cases, inflammation causes fluid to accumulate in the lungs as the immune system fights the virus. Fluid in the lungs makes breathing more difficult which makes blood oxygen level fall below normal. For the critical cases, there is an overly increased immune response compared to the ongoing infection which leads to sepsis and a dangerous drop in blood pressure, which is known as septic shock. The organs fail due to lack of oxygen, inflammation and septic shock.
The virus destroys the cells of the lungs which makes it difficult for breathing and even worse when the body tries to fight the virus. Inflammation resulting from attacks by your immune system even worsens the matter. This is because the blood vessels and tissues destroyed during the war between your immune system and the virus causes more fluid to leak into your lungs making breathing and oxygenation difficult.
The virus does not only attack the lungs, it has the ability to also attack the kidneys, destroying its cells. The kidney is saddled with the responsibility of removing wastes from the blood, toxic levels of these wastes accumulates when the organ fail.
Patients can no longer breathe on their own and will require mechanical support with ventilators or special masks to deliver purified, highly concentrated oxygen.
This can be triggered by any severe infection and COVID-19 is one. There is a wide spread response in which the immune systems tries to attack the virus and in this event, the human cells are also destroyed, organs are affected and blood pressure drops dangerously.
Organs start to fail as the disease advances, which may result in death.
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