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| Long-term symptoms, complications of COVID-19 |
| 2020-08-11 |
| [Mayo Clinic News Network] - Acute symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, are now widely known. What is not known, however, is what symptoms and complications may linger long after an initial COVID-19 infection. Early research shows the disease attacks more than just the respiratory system, affecting multiple organs with blood clots and inflammation. "This is a disease that has a number of mysteries involved, compared to the usual respiratory virus," says Dr. Gregory Poland, a COVID-19 expert at Mayo Clinic. Because it didn't evolve but was created as biological weapon in a lab, Doc. ...What's just starting to emerge, according to Dr. Poland, is this idea of COVID-19 "long-haulers," which is a term used to describe people who develop long-term and ongoing complications. "We're really seeing a number of reports of people who report long-term fatigue, headaches, vertigo (and), interestingly enough, difficulties with cognition, hair loss, cardiac issues, and diminished cardiorespiratory fitness. And I think what we're going to find out is that a large portion—not all, but a large portion of that—is likely to relate to the significant cellular-level damage that this virus can cause," says Dr. Poland. A friendly advice to all you "covid-skeptics". Exercise some care where you express your, deeply held, beliefs about "unnecessary lockdowns" & "totalitarian, useless, masks". A woman losing hair to Covid 19, just might kill you - I ain't kidding. Some of the possible long-term effects can affect even patients who are asymptomatic or have mild cases of COVID-19."I think it's an argument for why we take this disease so seriously," says Dr. Poland. "People who are thinking, especially young people: '(It's a) mild disease, you know. I might not even have any symptoms, and I'm over it.' Whoa. The data is suggesting otherwise. There's evidence of myocardial damage, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, decreased ejection fractions, pulmonary scarring and strokes. In fact, I'm beginning to think that the documented lethality of Covid 19 is due to its premature escape. Further engineering was supposed to tone it down - so the virus (posing as an ordinary cold) could infect most of the population before its long term effects were discovered. ..."We're going to see more and more of the longer-term consequences come out, and we're going to need to study those as vigorously as we did the acute symptoms. Catalog them, understand them and then do clinical trials to figure out how best to treat them," says Dr. Poland. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 It is useful to distinguish between what researchers report and what reporters say about their research. |
| Posted by: James 2020-08-11 22:15 |
| #16 For now, we have no reason to trust researchers and their opinions. Not enough time has passed for long term studies. Not that they have any credibility anyway. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-08-11 17:50 |
| #15 The toxic staff is inside the wrapper. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-11 15:20 |
| #14 The wrapper on your Big Mac has toxic stuff on it... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 14:49 |
| #13 This is a credible threat. In rare cases even 'harmless' well-known childhood diseases can cause deadly long-term complications. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-08-11 14:02 |
| #12 The lung damage is real. I've seen the images on a relative. It will have a longer lasting effect, unlike flu. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-08-11 13:50 |
| #11 Any studies comparing the long-term effects of the COVID compared to the Asian/Hong Kong/seasonal flu effects? Any older studies on the long-term effects of the 1957 Asian flu, the 1968 Hong Kong flu or any subsequent seasonal flu pandemics? I bet not. Not enough researchers to do the work 50 years ago or media panic to drive the interest. So we really have nothing with which to compare COVID-19. Except carefully tabulated COVID death rates compared to CDC estimates. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-08-11 11:43 |
| #10 Lockdown cures everything! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 10:05 |
| #9 We should lockdown all the time to prevent flu and thus Alzheimers. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-11 09:53 |
| #8 Other than hair loss the list of lingering side effects was exactly what I experienced after having double pneumonia. It took a long time to very gradually rehabilitate myself with sad and pathetic weights and even sadder walks since running was then far in the future. I couldn't have even begun any of that without supplementing my diet with zinc, selenium, magnesium and potassium daily. My hair did go from black to grey in a relatively short time. I am a limited sample to be sure, but I know what happened. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-08-11 08:24 |
| #7 Then they opted out of doing the dirty And here we are... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:54 |
| #6 I'm not unrealistic enough to expect to even die happy. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:53 |
| #5 Married men die later, cause she won't let him get away without more suffering? You understand a 100 years ago women had about the same life expectancy as men. Needing children for your family social security (cause the state didn't offer it), child mortality rates meaning more tries to secure that old age protection, and birth complications all had major impacts upon that calculation. Then the oppressive patriarchal medical establishment reduced the mortality rate of the latter two factors. With the vote, the ladies addressed the first factor. Then they opted out of doing the dirty and dangerous jobs of the society to insure the death rate calculations would always skew in their favor. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-08-11 06:40 |
| #4 The worst long-term symptoms of COVID are CDC, NIH, WHO, Fauxi and Birx. Or is it Brix? The media changes it's "mind" hourly. They could just settle on "scarf woman." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 05:42 |
| #3 Men die younger, because women make us want to. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 04:54 |
| #2 Just keep in mind that I said about women, Murcek. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-11 04:50 |
| #1 If this genetic engineering was so well worked out and sure-fire we would no longer have cancer nor the germs that cause bad breath. Some people will believe anything. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 04:29 |