[EvaH (OP)]

Steve wants to know:

On a tv documentary recently it mentioned a species of Carp that had adapted to life in lakes and ponds with extremely low oxygen levels. Is it possible that we could identify how they do this and help develop medicines for Covid 19 patients who are suffering breathing problems?

What do you think?

[alancalverd]

Turn into fish, move slowly most of the time, and occasionally pop up to the surface for a gulp of air. Carp seem to do this more than most fish.

[Petrochemicals]

Steve wants to know:

On a tv documentary recently it mentioned a species of Carp that had adapted to life in lakes and ponds with extremely low oxygen levels. Is it possible that we could identify how they do this and help develop medicines for Covid 19 patients who are suffering breathing problems?

What do you think?

Throwing corona patients into ponds may do more harm than good, firstly there are a lot of bacteria in ponds which may cause secondary infections. The ponds as well are not deep so there is a risk they may bang there heads. Even though the ponds have oxygen in them its unlikely that people could draw this oxygen out through skin osmosis, so they may have to have a ventilator attached, leading to problems with water in the equipment. The carp may be doing this through a secret society, but we have no fluent carp speakers and intelligence on the carp collective is sketchy at best so even if we get them to talk we will not understand what they are saying. Fortunately the intelligence community has set up an observational spy network to observe the carp to learn of their miracle secret in action, consisting of a network of spies who bribe informants with bits of bread. Chances of sucess are unknown.