by Pieter J. Gaillard
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12 May, 2023
- May 12, 2020 - Soothing vascular inflammation whilst eradicating the virus.
As long as the COVID-19 disease is amongst us, and as long as there is no safe and effective vaccine, or affordable and widely applicable anti-viral drug available to all people around the globe, our world will not return to as it was before. Meanwhile the virus will continue to cause (hyper)inflammatory responses in the blood, the vasculature and thereby have major impact on the functioning of all major organs, foremost in lungs, heart, skin and brain. These responses were so far found to be most detrimental to people of older age and with underlying vascular pathologies. Yet, as long as this pandemic continues, all of us at least stand at risk of developing the perhaps milder and more manageable vascular inflammatory and thrombotic conditions, albeit with sometimes severe complications as a result (like cerebrovascular accidents / stroke).