@E76 - There are plenty of things that can fuck up your kidneys in the hospital, especially when you get seriously ill. Like the contrast agents they use for CT, as just one example. The Coof can fuck them up directly too. Clotting disorders can easily do it standing alone. Point being, your kidneys are NOT just about creating piss and if they get fucked up you're in trouble.

That's why pathology, when someone DIES, is important. WHY DID THEY DIE? "Oh he had Covid, it killed him" is NOT necessarily true. Oh, maybe he DID have Covid, but was Covid what killed him?

Maybe; that might have been what ultimately led to cardiac collapse, which is usually how you die when you die; for whatever reason (gunshot wound, disease, etc) your heart stops. Why did it stop? What's the causal chain? Did you get nasty diffuse clotting? Was it PAH caused by clotting in the lungs, which then fucked up everything else?

How the hell do you KNOW if you don't do autopsies? More to the point, whatever it is how the Hell do you find working treatment modalities if you don't do the work?

How do you advance the state of knowledge of a disease if you don't look at the people who it killed and figure out HOW it killed them? Not assume, KNOW! Especially when what you THINK should work doesn't.

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