Hypoxia is a condition where there are abnormally low levels of oxygen in the body, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
of happy hypoxics who are checking their phones and chatting with nurses at blood oxygen levels that should cause them to be incredibly sick.
When the oxygen concentration in the body gets too low, people need to be put on ventilators, Schaffner points out. It’s unclear at this point. “One theory is that the hypoxia is due to clots in the small blood vessels in the lungs, which impedes oxygen exchange,” Dr. Richard Watkins, an infectious disease physician in Akron, Ohio, and a professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, tells Yahoo Life. “There are reports that the hypoxia improves with anticoagulants — medication that dissolves it.
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