Covid 19 causes pneumonia. This is the manifestation of the viral agent causing enough irritation, inflamation, and immunosuppression that the tissue damage then becomes hospitable ground for a bacterial infection to develop that they then classify as Pneumonia once it surpasses a certain threshhold.
At this point you have covid 19, a viral infection
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A bacterial infection manifest as pneumonia; likely culprit is Staphylococcus aureus at this point since essentially everyone has minor amounts of this bacterium located in their sinuses and upper respiratory system which only becomes a problem when immunosuppression causes it to overpopulate an inflamed area within the body.
Anitbiotics fix part 2;the bacterial pneumonia, amoxicillin is typical the go-to here. Marah and other cucurbitacaea handle part 1, the viral.
A fairly easy way to assess whether your pneumonia is purely viral, or being exacerbated by bacterial infection is to assess the sputum. Once youve had bronchitis, tonsilits etc a few times you can actually identify the taste of the bacteria as gross as that sounds, and its generally discolored with a brown/grey/greenish hue, whereas nonbacterial pneumonia has sputum that is generally clear, opaque white, or very slightly yellow.
YMMV if youre a smoker and are regularly expressing tars.
Its also pretty easy to determine if its gram-positive under a microscope, and/or to culture in a petri dish with a thin layer of glucose by inspecting how the bacterial colony grows if you know the various shapes each major family of bacteria develops in if you wanna go that route.
Testing for gram-positive bacteria, and or culturing is basic stuff you learn in undergraduate biology classes if you're on the MCAT path.
Nice name btw Zeboim, very biblical. You living out by vegas, BTW?
Cheers.
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