Oxidative stress in the pulmonary artery endothelium can lead to platelet aggregation and white clots.

“imagine now if you will uh the pulmonary artery in somebody who becomes infected with either influenza or covid-19 and that causes an oxidative stress situation where you have the cell having more oxidative stress than it should causes dysfunction of the cell the cell becomes damaged peels back releases some of the Von Willer Brands factor and now you have clots in the in the pulmonary artery this is something actually that we did see with co uh when they did the autopsies found many times more of these specific white clots in these patients”