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martin wrote:Did not know this:

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Scientists Just Beginning To Understand The Many Health Problems Caused By Covid-19

“We thought this was only a respiratory virus. Turns out, it goes after the pancreas. It goes after the heart. It goes after the liver, the brain, the kidney and other organs.
Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts.

Besides the respiratory issues that leave patients gasping for breath, the virus that causes COVID-19 attacks many organ systems, in some cases causing catastrophic damage.

“We thought this was only a respiratory virus. Turns out, it goes after the pancreas. It goes after the heart. It goes after the liver, the brain, the kidney and other organs. We didn’t appreciate that in the beginning,” said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California.

In addition to respiratory distress, patients with COVID-19 can experience blood clotting disorders that can lead to strokes, and extreme inflammation that attacks multiple organ systems. The virus can also cause neurological complications that range from headache, dizziness and loss of taste or smell to seizures and confusion.

And recovery can be slow, incomplete and costly, with a huge impact on quality of life.

The broad and diverse manifestations of COVID-19 are somewhat unique, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

With influenza, people with underlying heart conditions are also at higher risk of complications, Khan said. What is surprising about this virus is the extent of the complications occurring outside the lungs.

Khan believes there will be a huge healthcare expenditure and burden for individuals who have survived COVID-19.

LENGTHY REHAB FOR MANY

Patients who were in the intensive care unit or on a ventilator for weeks will need to spend extensive time in rehab to regain mobility and strength.

“It can take up to seven days for every one day that you’re hospitalized to recover that type of strength,” Khan said. “It’s harder the older you are, and you may never get back to the same level of function.”

While much of the focus has been on the minority of patients who experience severe disease, doctors increasingly are looking to the needs of patients who were not sick enough to require hospitalization, but are still suffering months after first becoming infected.

Studies are just getting underway to understand the long-term effects of infection, Jay Butler, deputy director of infectious diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters in a telephone briefing on Thursday.

“We hear anecdotal reports of people who have persistent fatigue, shortness of breath,” Butler said. “How long that will last is hard to say.”

While coronavirus symptoms typically resolve in two or three weeks, an estimated 1 in 10 experience prolonged symptoms, Dr. Helen Salisbury of the University of Oxford wrote in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday.

Salisbury said many of her patients have normal chest X-rays and no sign of inflammation, but they are still not back to normal.

“If you previously ran 5k three times a week and now feel breathless after a single flight of stairs, or if you cough incessantly and are too exhausted to return to work, then the fear that you may never regain your previous health is very real,” she wrote.

Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine, reviewed current scientific literature and found about half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had neurological complications, such as dizziness, decreased alertness, difficulty concentrating, disorders of smell and taste, seizures, strokes, weakness and muscle pain.

Koralnik, whose findings were published in the Annals of Neurology, has started an outpatient clinic for COVID-19 patients to study whether these neurological problems are temporary or permanent.

Khan sees parallels with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Much of the early focus was on deaths.

“In recent years, we’ve been very focused on the cardiovascular complications of HIV survivorship,” Khan said.

Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; additional reporting by Caroline Humer and Nancy Lapid in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot

...Thanks for the constant updates.

martin wrote:I’m re-posting this cause it’s just shocking and will just be a blip cause of everything else that is going on

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Not for nothing, but my biggest fear is that this administration kmowlingly tries to pass off an ineffective vaccine. I trust nothing that this gov't desseminates.

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I’m getting my teeth taken care of and full physical plus stress test next week. I just know we’re headed to a bad place— so just taking care of what I need to and hopefully hiding out this fall. I thank god my daughter is in austria abd my kid is in upper Maine

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martin wrote:

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I’m getting my teeth taken care of and full physical plus stress test next week. I just know we’re headed to a bad place— so just taking care of what I need to and hopefully hiding out this fall. I thank god my daughter is in austria abd my kid is in upper Maine

I’m genuinely glad you’re taking this a lot more seriously now, I hope we are all safe and well enough to continue our forum discussions for many years to come!

Smart to get your teeth sorted now. I’m also working under the assumption we’ll be in the midst of a big surge in the next few weeks or months, so am taking the opportunity now to do some prep. Got my entertainment sorted, some supplies of stuff that was hard to get hold of last time, exercise stuff, etc

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martin wrote:

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I’m getting my teeth taken care of and full physical plus stress test next week. I just know we’re headed to a bad place— so just taking care of what I need to and hopefully hiding out this fall. I thank god my daughter is in austria abd my kid is in upper Maine

I’m genuinely glad you’re taking this a lot more seriously now, I hope we are all safe and well enough to continue our forum discussions for many years to come!

Smart to get your teeth sorted now. I’m also working under the assumption we’ll be in the midst of a big surge in the next few weeks or months, so am taking the opportunity now to do some prep. Got my entertainment sorted, some supplies of stuff that was hard to get hold of last time, exercise stuff, etc

Some of these same people who refuse to wear masks are the same people who balk at the idea of people defending their civil rights from police. It's not about rights or the Constitution. It's the inability of some humans to show empathy. Everyone wants to be free, but even freedom has a price

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Awww that is so cute. Maybe it needs to be scratched behind the ears.