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Originally Posted by loochy
So what's actually happening to him? He has a fever and body aches (duh, because body aches come with fever). Of course they're looking at his O2 sat and temp...that should be done with the flu anyway. They gave him prophylactic antibiotics to ward off any secondary bacterial infections and they're just trying the malaria meds because COVID19 replicates in the same way that malaria does.
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SARS-CoV-2 does not replicate the same way malaria does. Malaria is a plasmodial infection caused by a parasite which lies dormant in the liver before infecting red blood cells. SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that uses a viral spike to attach to ACE2 receptors, wherein a protease cleaves the spike that allows a fusion peptide to attach, thereby allowing viral entry into the cell.
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