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But in some people it moves into the bloodstream. once it moves into the bloodstream it's what we call bacteremia, what we call a blood infection. if it moves to the next step, that's sepsis and sepsis causes organ dysfunction, the kidney, the heart, the brain, the liver, they start having issues working like they should. if that's not treated quickly enough or well enough it turns into septic shock and that's the life threatening condition that this could have advanced to. as you get older it's easier to get through that spectrum of illnesses and advance all the way to that septic shock but l...

It stops and people can be stabilized very quickly and they're only in the hospital for a few days. if it progresses even more it turns into sepsis, that's a life-threatening area where the organ dysfunction starts happening. in other words, the kidney, the live, the brain, the lungs, aren't working as well as they ordinarily do and that's harder to treat. if it's not treated as well as we would like to, then it can turn into septic shock which has a 40 or 50% mortality rate. that's where we don't want them to get. it sounds like he got to the second stage and didn't progress beyond that becau...

Do you think it could offer unvaccinated a false hope or would it give them an excuse not to get vaccinated? >> it really is one of those things. i think we in the united states became very obsessed with just the death count, unfortunately, and it is unfortunate. when we think about 700,000 people dying, we haven't had that much death as far as a.i.d.s. in the united states since the 1980s and this happened within 18 months but when we talk about covid-19, there are more consequences than just hospitalization and death, and it comes in the form of long covid, of which we're estimating 1 in eve...