[umgud]

How do the coronavirus victims die? Heart failure? Lung failure, can’t breathe? Painfully?

[entropy12]

The virus destroys lungs and then pneumonia follows choking the patient to death, like all pneumonia deaths.

[TigerClaws]

They die from ARDS = acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The blood circulating through the lungs can’t get oxygen becaue the lungs fill with fluid. Lack of oxygen. Patients gasp trying to breathe and die without a respirator.

How many are there in the U.S.? About 60-70,000 of them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21149215

[Pelham]

Here’s what coronavirus does to the body

[kaehurowing]

The virus gets control of your lungs and cannot be stopped. Eventually you die of pneumonia or cytokine storm as your body’s immune system destroys itself.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How Coronavirus Kills. You essentially drown.

[wideminded]

How do the coronavirus victims die? Heart failure? Lung failure, can’t breathe? Painfully?

It's a lung problem. The alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs, get clogged up due to the immune response to the virus. This blocks oxygen from getting into the blood.