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Covid 19 and Blood Thinners

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Just found this post edition.cnn.com/2020/05/06/...

For those of us on blood thinners we may well be much better placed to be fighting a Covid infection !

Turns out tha there is strong evidence that treatment with blood thinners (I know they don’t thin the blood) leads to significantly better outcomes for those on ventilators than those not taking anticoagulants.

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yes Steve we keep seeing this and remain ever hopeful

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