Transcription
19. It's like having rattlesnake venom running through your body. At least that's what researchers are telling us.
We found evidence that there was an enzyme, a snake-like enzyme in the blood of people who were dying in extraordinarily high levels.
Scientists from the University of Arizona, working on this study for the past year and a half, recently published it in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The snake-like enzyme found in healthy people at low levels to prevent bacterial infections. But in severe cases of COVID-19, it's doing the opposite.
These high levels of this enzyme are looking at those tissues in the organs and saying, "You look like a bacteria. Let's shred your membranes. Let's put these organs out of their misery."
And we're told it may be what's driving COVID-19 deaths. Dr. Floyd Chilton, senior author.