COVID-19 may damage protein that transports oxygen in blood

COVID-19 may damage protein that transports oxygen in blood
# 05 May 2020 03:06 (UTC +04:00)

Italian pharmacology scholar Annalisa Chiusolo believes she has uncovered the mechanism behind COVID-19: the novel coronavirus damages hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen in the blood, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

According to Chiusolo’s theory, the virus attacking hemoglobin results in less oxygen in the human body, which leads to the accumulation of carbon dioxide. In other words, red blood cells cannot transport oxygen throughout the body, which eventually causes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a condition where fluid collects in the lungs’ air sacs, which deprives the body’s organs of oxygen.

“The lung cells become the site of the cytokine cascade, an enormous immune response, which is responsible for the acute lung inflammation that characterizes COVID-19 pneumonia,” Chiusolo explained to the Jerusalem Post. The Science Daily defines a cytokine cascade as an “overproduction of immune cells and their activating compounds.”

Chiusolo believes her theory explains why men, especially male diabetics, are more vulnerable to the coronavirus and why pregnant women and children are less likely to contract SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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