The mysterious clotting in covid-19 patients

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

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Summary

Two doctors on the mysterious blood-clotting complication killing coronavirus patients. Heather Long explains why the economy won’t just bounce back in a “V-shaped” recovery. Plus, Lindsey Sitz on why washing your hands a lot doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.”

Doctors say that a blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients.

What is a W-shaped economic recovery? (Hint: It’s scary.)

If you wash your hands a lot, it doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” Here’s what it’s really like to have it.

If you want to learn more about OCD, there are helpful resources at iocdf.org.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post.
0:07.5	How are you?
0:08.5	He there, it's Simon from the Post.
0:10.5	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post.
0:12.5	Have you got a seat?
0:13.5	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:16.5	It's Monday, April 27th.
0:20.5	Today, doctors investigate a new, surprising COVID symptom.
0:27.5	Why the economy might not recover quickly and the truth about OCD.
0:34.5	So we have multiple COVID ICUs in multiple hospitals.
0:41.5	Craig Cooper Smith is the interim director at the Emory Critical Care Center.
0:46.0	And I have a daily text with all the COVID attendings.
0:52.0	To make sure that everybody's seeing the same thing or seeing different things.
0:55.5	And so if somebody says, I've seen this, is anybody else seeing this?
0:59.5	If nobody answers, it's probably a one-off.
1:04.0	But in this case, somebody wrote saying, I'm seeing an increase in blood clotting.
1:10.5	And about 10 seconds later, somebody in a different ICU were texted, I'm seeing the same thing.
1:16.0	And a third, I'll see you said it.
1:17.5	And a fourth, I see you said it.
1:19.0	And all of a sudden, it became very clear that this wasn't a one-off, that this was a pattern.
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