Saturday, February 8, 2020

Wuhan expert reveals key facts: Novel coronavirus attacks immune system in 3 weeks

Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Responsible Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher, 8 February 2020 : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/08/a102772710.html
English Translation, 9 February 2020 (SG local time), by : Gan Yung Chyan
                                                                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image below : Frontline experts in Wuhan point out that the novel coronavirus attacks the human immune system. This is similar to HIV. (Schematic) (pixabay.com)


Novel coronavirus has spread, and the virus's infectivity and acute lethality are fearful. To maintain "stability", the China Communist Party (CCP) experts generally avoid discussing the details of the pandemic. A recent interview with a director of an intensive care department in Wuhan revealed some inside information, including the fact that the virus attacks the human immune system and causes organ failure. The patient's life and death is generally determined within three weeks.

Peng Zhiyong, Director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, revealed in an interview with Caixin on 4 February 2020 that the biggest harm of novel coronavirus is attacking the human immune system, resulting in the decline of lymphocytes, impaired lung function, and death from respiratory failure. Many patients also died of multiple organ complications and multiple organ failure due to decreased immunity.

Peng Zhiyong's clinical observations at Zhongnan Hospital found that the onset period of novel coronavirus is generally three weeks, and patients will die if they do not survive for three weeks.

It usually takes a week for a patient to progress from mild to severe if emergency treatment is not sought. Mild manifestations generally include fever, fatigue, cough, muscle soreness, difficulty in breathing, etc., but also include less common headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhoea, and vomiting.

Then some patients suddenly became more ill in the second week, and generally suffered from respiratory distress, and the frail elderly would have other organ failure. Patients treated at the hospital are generally resistant and will improve in the second week and recover slowly. People with poor resistance will become critically ill in the second week.

The third week is a watershed period between critical illness and death. If the rescue fails, the lymphocytes continue to fall, and the immune system is eventually destroyed, and multiple organ failure will occur and the patient will die.

In addition, citizens across the country have suddenly fallen on the streets. For example, a 39-year-old patient in Hong Kong has been diagnosed with sudden cardiac arrest leading to rapid death. Some experts believe that it is because young people react fiercely that they are over-immunized, causing more serious illness and mortality. It has also been analyzed that the viral attack caused acute myocarditis.

Based on his clinical experience, Peng Zhiyong explains that about one third of patients in intensive care units develop systemic inflammation, which leads to multiple organ failure, and is not related to specific young people. However in some patients, this process is very fast. Even in the case of treatment in the hospital, a patient can become critically ill within two or three days.

The lymphocyte mentioned by Peng Zhiyong is an important immune cell in the human body. Decreased lymphocyte numbers can lead to loss of immunity. The HIV virus attacks the human body's CD4 lymphatic system, destroys the immune system, and ultimately causes the patient to die from an infection or malignancy.

According to clinical manifestation reports of patients, novel coronavirus attacks lymphocytes. It is quite similar to AIDS. However, the novel virus is more dangerous than HIV.

When the human body is acutely infected with HIV, the immune system generally kills most of the virus quickly, thereby introducing an incubation period ranging from months to 20 years. The mutant HIV slowly kills CD4 lymphocytes during the incubation period, eventually destroying the immune system, and the diseased person enters the onset period. However, the novel coronavirus can kill patients in just three weeks.

In addition, there are many patients who have been infected with the novel coronavirus initially without any symptom or fever. The explanation given by a Hong Kong doctor is that fever is an external manifestation of the human immune system fighting against the virus fighting, and as it is rare and new, the novel virus cannot be recognized by the human immune system. So the patient has no external response, no fever and the virus proceeds to attack the human tissue. 

In addition, HIV is relatively fragile. Once it leaves the body and is exposed to the air, it will die quickly. So it is generally transmitted only through body fluids. However, the novel coronavirus has a very strong ability to survive and infect, and has shown a variety of transmission possibilities such as airborne, fecal-oral, blood, and contact transmission.

Recently, a paper released by Indian experts pointed out that the HIV gene was inserted into the S protein of the new coronavirus, which makes the coronavirus capable of infecting the human body like HIV. The paper also pointed out that this situation has not been found in other coronaviruses, and that this ingenious mutation "is unlikely to happen by accident in nature." The paper caused speculation that the novel coronavirus was a hybrid of SARS virus and HIV, and the outside world once again turned its attention to the Wuhan Institute of Virology accused of participating in the development of the CCP's biological weapons. The paper was subsequently retracted by the author. Li Longteng, the former deputy director of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of China, questioned that the author should be under pressure from a certain party.



Anand Ranganathan, a scientist at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in India, commented on the paper, saying that if the novel coronavirus was really designed, it would be "Scary". (Twitter screenshot)

Coincidentally, a few days after the publication of the above-mentioned paper, Li Lanjuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, announced that darunavir, a drug that inhibits the cleavage of HIV proteins, could "significantly inhibit" the replication of novel virus. Prior to this, Wang Guangfa, an expert of the Communist Party of China Health Committee who had been infected with novel coronavirus, also publicly stated that an anti-AIDS drug "lopinaviritonavir" was effective in treating his condition. Earlier, the joint research team of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and the Shanghai University of Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had announced 30 drugs that may be effective against novel coronavirus, of which as many as 12 were anti-AIDS drugs.

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