Hey folks, welcome to the seventh Dark Horse Podcast live stream.

I am sitting here with Dr. Heather Heing as has become our custom and we are about to embark

on another exciting discussion of our global situation.

We have been opening up with corrections.

We had some technical difficulties in the last stream which caused us to have to compile

the footage and upload it separately which may have gotten in the way of us registering

some things that needed correcting or it's possible that there were fewer corrections

this week but I'm not aware of anything major that we said that would require an update.

Are you aware of anything?

No, I'm not.

All right, so I do have an update or two that are not quite a correction.

Several live streams ago we talked about the possibility that was being raised by several

doctors on the front lines of treating COVID-19 patients that the symptomatology looked

more like altitude sickness than it did like a standard viral pneumonia.

I have now seen several papers address this question and it is looking less likely that

this is a high altitude like symptoms and more like a standard viral pneumonia.

Now as we covered last time it's possible that different doctors are seeing patients

with different symptoms and I would also point out that the dialogue between doctors

about what they're seeing and what it's meaning is is actually a very healthy thing for medicine

and that in some sense doctors once upon a time were very much more scientifically oriented

in the sense that they had fewer pharmacological tools at their disposal and their greatest

tool was their ability to analyze patterns that they were seeing and figure out how to

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