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Originally Posted by Taf
If you try to hold your breath for a long time, it's not a lack of oxygen that forces you to breathe but the build-up of carbon dioxide in your blood. Whales and other animals can turn off this response, so can dive for extended periods. Covid 19 is perhaps doing this too, as some people are not feeling breathless but the levels of oxygen in their blood are dangerously low?
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Let's hope that dogs will be able to help the situation; they have been known to be able to sniff cancer etc. It would be quicker and cheaper than using testing kits.
There was actually some fake news going round that if you could hold your breathe for 20 seconds, then you didn't have Covid-19.