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A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients

Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual, and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. "Good morning, Team Covid," he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals in the Emory University health system in Atlanta.

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 8, 2020 file photo, Doctor Giovanni Passeri, top left, with his assistant doctor Mariaconcetta Terracina, read the medical notes of 82-year-old patient Mario, during a routine examination part of a night shift in his ward in the COVID-19 section of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma, northern Italy.
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 8, 2020 file photo, Doctor Giovanni Passeri, top left, with his assistant doctor Mariaconcetta Terracina, read the medical notes of 82-year-old patient Mario, during a routine examination part of a night shift in his ward in the COVID-19 section of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma, northern Italy.Read moreDomenico Stinellis / AP
    by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post
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