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[GAF]

Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19?

Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19?
Men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus, so scientists are treating them with something women have more of: female sex hormones.

 

[alywest]

Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19?

Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19?
Men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus, so scientists are treating them with something women have more of: female sex hormones.

Interestingly they’re also starting a progesterone trial in the states as well. I think I’d rather be in the progesterone study lol

 

[LucyL]

Wonder if they will really use progesterone? Or more likely progestins, and outcome will be no different than estrogen, and maybe even worse.

 

[alywest]

Wonder if they will really use progesterone? Or more likely progestins, and outcome will be no different than estrogen, and maybe even worse.

Good point

 

[LucyL]

Given this clotting feature of COVID-19, even entertaining using estrogen surely must be criminal

We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us

Many of the patients described didn’t even know they were sick:

The patient’s chart appeared unremarkable at first glance. He took no medications and had no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of the country, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head. Oxley gasped when he got to the patient’s age and covid-19 status: 44, positive.

The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the coronavirus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74.

But the patient’s age wasn’t the only abnormality of the case:

As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — “like a can of spaghetti,” he said — that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it.


“This is crazy,” he remembers telling his boss.

These strokes, several doctors who spoke to the Post theorized, could explain the high number of patients dying at home — four times the usual rate in New York, many or most of them, perhaps, dying quite suddenly. According to the Brigham and Women’s guidelines, only 53 percent of COVID-19 patients have died from respiratory failure alone.
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[alywest]

Given this clotting feature of COVID-19, even entertaining using estrogen surely must be criminal

We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us

Many of the patients described didn’t even know they were sick:

The patient’s chart appeared unremarkable at first glance. He took no medications and had no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of the country, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head. Oxley gasped when he got to the patient’s age and covid-19 status: 44, positive.

The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the coronavirus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74.

But the patient’s age wasn’t the only abnormality of the case:

As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — “like a can of spaghetti,” he said — that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it.


“This is crazy,” he remembers telling his boss.

These strokes, several doctors who spoke to the Post theorized, could explain the high number of patients dying at home — four times the usual rate in New York, many or most of them, perhaps, dying quite suddenly. According to the Brigham and Women’s guidelines, only 53 percent of COVID-19 patients have died from respiratory failure alone.
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That is crazy. I’ve mentioned similar articles regarding doctors who have seen the same sort of thing when inserting needles, etc. A pulmonologist, Dr. Hooman Poor, has been theorizing that the clots in lungs are also blood clots. So it seems to be happening in every system of the body, and certainly estrogen would not be the right approach, neither would any progestin.