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Head to toe symptoms could also be from false covid diagnosis. ie they died of clotting and were called covid for the $13,000 that diagnosis brings the hospital.
Exceptional claims should have exceptional proof and starting off with "explains everything" is simply clickbait. If you want a scientific, non-sensational overview of how research is going on the Covid front, I suggest Derek Lowe's blog instead [1].

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

The article was a very well written lay reader summary of a couple of recent papers offering a different perspective on what the core mechanisms in COVID-19 might be. Even the title didn't claim to "explain everything" and the body of the text certainly did not.

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The article title on HN has been editorialized to be more reasonable, on Medium the article's title is "Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything".
That is an entirely legimitate point, and one I confess I had overlooked (I was referring to the HN title).

I still feel that the contents of the article are of a very different tone to the admittedly clickbait headline/title.

Very informative article and a new angle in the fight against this disease.