The authors said this level was “remarkably high”, given all patients received at least standard doses of blood thinners. “A Covid patient’s blood is enormously sticky,” she says. “All patients in critical care are at increased risk from clots because they are immobile, and when you are sick you have sticky blood,” says Hunt. But even in non-Covid critical care patients, thromboembolism rates can be as high as 28%, if patients aren’t given any anticoagulants. Postmortems reveal clots in the tiny blood vessels, the capillaries of the lungs, and these prevent oxygenated blood from reaching the body.

Source: Daily Mirror June 15, 2020 16:30 UTC