Your lack of understanding masquerading as condescension is staggering.
You realize that the point of ventilators is to deliver oxygen right?
The point of ventilators is to deliver a pressurized gas. In most cases that gas is actually just room air because your alveoli are fine, they're just obstructed, as you say. They can be modified to deliver pressurized oxygen instead of just room air. This is important because:
Rona causes ARDS
Yes.
which essentially fills the tiny sacks in your lungs with junk
No. That is only one of many possible reasons for ARDS. In the case of corona, that does not happen. Corona causes ARDS through low oxygenation due to hemoglobin destruction. Your lungs don't have gunk in them. It's your blood that doesn't have what it needs to carry oxygen. So pressurized ventilators pushing room air didn't help at all.
On top of that, hemoglobin breakdown leads to free iron in your blood, which damages the alveoli that are already delicate as hell. When they are damaged, a pressurized ventilator can cause them to rupture, which is why ventilators are actually doing more harm than good and you have such high death rates with ventilated patients. The ventilators are making the problem worse.
However, low pressure ventilators that are modified to push oxygen at low pressure rather than room air at high pressure work very well, especially combined with blood transfusions.
Or you could just use anti-malarial medication early coughhydroxychloroquinecough and prevent the hemoglobin breakdown in the first place.
Corona causes ARDS through low oxygenation due to hemoglobin destruction.
On top of that, hemoglobin breakdown leads to free iron in your blood, which damages the alveoli that are already delicate as hell.
AFAIK there isn't any clinical evidence for this and the paper that made this claim was based on protein simulation and modeling techniques. This was not based on clinical evidence:
The results showed the ORF8 and surface glycoprotein could bind to the porphyrin, respectively.
(Emphasis mine.)
The other side of the coin is what damages the alveoli is that SARS-CoV-2 attacks the type II pneumocytes then inflammatory cytokines precipitate fluid entering the lung tissue.
Your lack of understanding masquerading as condescension is staggering.
The point of ventilators is to deliver a pressurized gas. In most cases that gas is actually just room air because your alveoli are fine, they're just obstructed, as you say. They can be modified to deliver pressurized oxygen instead of just room air. This is important because:
Yes.
No. That is only one of many possible reasons for ARDS. In the case of corona, that does not happen. Corona causes ARDS through low oxygenation due to hemoglobin destruction. Your lungs don't have gunk in them. It's your blood that doesn't have what it needs to carry oxygen. So pressurized ventilators pushing room air didn't help at all.
On top of that, hemoglobin breakdown leads to free iron in your blood, which damages the alveoli that are already delicate as hell. When they are damaged, a pressurized ventilator can cause them to rupture, which is why ventilators are actually doing more harm than good and you have such high death rates with ventilated patients. The ventilators are making the problem worse.
However, low pressure ventilators that are modified to push oxygen at low pressure rather than room air at high pressure work very well, especially combined with blood transfusions.
Or you could just use anti-malarial medication early coughhydroxychloroquinecough and prevent the hemoglobin breakdown in the first place.
AFAIK there isn't any clinical evidence for this and the paper that made this claim was based on protein simulation and modeling techniques. This was not based on clinical evidence:
(Emphasis mine.)
The other side of the coin is what damages the alveoli is that SARS-CoV-2 attacks the type II pneumocytes then inflammatory cytokines precipitate fluid entering the lung tissue.
This guy gets it