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Autopsies of patients who have died from COVID-19 have shown a “dramatic” increase in the number of blood clots affecting major and minor blood vessels as well as “almost every organ” in the human body, according to a top New York pathologist.  Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, told CNN on Thursday that while she expected the virus to cause clotting in the lungs and in lines of various large blood vessels, doctors in her recent study on coronavirus found clotting all over the body.  "And this was dramatic, because though we might have expected it in the lungs, we found it in almost every organ that we looked at in our autopsy study," Rapkiewicz said.  COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is known to affect the upper respi...

When Florida couple Cecilia and Marvin Lawton were infected with the coronavirus, their daughter Briana worried her mother was most at risk because of her history of high blood pressure, diabetes and respiratory illness. But as Cecilia recovered at home, Marvin lost his battle to the virus. He died in the hospital at age 60. "I really wasn't expecting my dad to get as bad as he was," Briana Lawton told CBS News' Dr. Tara Narula. "I really expected kind of, those roles to be swapped." Researchers have been studying the effects of the coronavirus on both men and women, and they've found that men are more likely to suffer worse outcomes from the disease, and are as much as 2.4 times more likely to die. Cecilia said her daughter, a nurse, still "struggles with the guilt that she couldn't save...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - As scientists question whether the presence, or absence, of antibodies to the novel coronavirus can reliably determine immunity, some are looking to a different component of the immune system, known as T cells, for their role in protecting people in the pandemic. Recent studies show that some recovered patients who tested negative for coronavirus antibodies did develop T cells in response to their COVID-19 infection. While the studies are small and have yet to be reviewed by outside experts, some scientists now say that people who experience a mild illness, or no symptoms at all, from the new coronavirus, may be eliminating the infection through this T cell response. The findings add to the evidence that an effective COVID-19 vaccine will need to prompt T cell...

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Posted: Jul 10, 2020 / 08:06 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 10, 2020 / 08:08 AM EDT (CNN) — Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body — and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night. Cleveland Clinic study: ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ cases on the rise during coronavirus pandemic Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as “dramatic” by Rapkiewicz. In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians n...