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Blood clots: A major problem in severe Covid-19 – Knowable Magazine
Out-of-control clotting can endanger some patients even after the virus has gone. Clinicians and researchers are trying to understand why it happens and how best to manage the problem.
In the early days of the New York Covid-19 outbreak, as March turned to April, hematologist Jeffrey Laurence was called to consult on the case of a 32-year-old bodybuilder. Nurses had noticed an odd rash on his buttocks, as if you had kind of peeled away the skin layer and were seeing what blood vessels look like on his bottom, recalls Laurence, who works at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. The vessels were outlined so clearly because the blood inside was coagulating, almost jelly-like.
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