Fascinating blood predictors of severe COVID response

[Loki]

If true could be another breakthrough.

https://www.businessinsider.com/patients-risk-of-death-from-coronavirus-predicted-blood-markers-2020-5

[Mik]

It's certainly a tool in the belt. So how do they then treat based on this? High antivirals?

[Jolly]

The article somewhat confused hs-CRP and CRP. Those are two different tests.

[Loki]

@Mik said in Fascinating blood predictors of severe COVID response:

It's certainly a tool in the belt. So how do they then treat based on this? High antivirals?

If it were simple to administer at scale just knowing your high at risk population would be massive for re-opening the country. Better than contact tracing.

[Mik]

These tests I believe only apply to folks who are already ill and would be of no use if asymptomatic folks. I wonder about the hs-CRP though. I know that a high level of normal CRP is an indicator of an immune system in high gear.

[Loki]

@Mik said in Fascinating blood predictors of severe COVID response:

These tests I believe only apply to folks who are already ill and would be of no use if asymptomatic folks. I wonder about the hs-CRP though. I know that a high level of normal CRP is an indicator of an immune system in high gear.

Got it.