I'm no physician nor do I have medical training, but I can read, research, and draw conclusions and doctors and medical researchers are noticing that not only does COVID-19 cause a pulmonary problem very much like Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) necessitating intubation, but apparently it can also lead to strokes in patients due to a blood clotting/thickening effect, and apparently it causes strange skin rashes similar to effect the chickenpox virus has, but not as widespread, and not restricted to children.
I think people may have the wrong idea that you get it, you get sick, you develop antibodies and get over it and move on, sort of like the flu, but more and more it looks like this is a virus that doesn't simply "go away" once you get it and "get over it". It appears to stick around in the body and randomly reactivate. There are multiple studies demonstating the virus reactivatung in patients who have developed antibodies and recovered.
The chickenpox virus also stays in a person for life, randomly reactivating and causing shingles. Likewise the malaria virus. Years after recovery, even decades, the same resident but dormant malaria virus can and does reactivate and make people just as sick as they were originally.
Not to be too indelicate but it's the same type of feature seen in certain viral STD's like herpes. Again it's the gift that keeps on giving.
The more we figure out about this particular coronavirus the less we realize we know, and the scarier it gets. It's worth noting these conditions are not limited to the elderly, although they have the highest mortality rates due to more comorbities.
I'm no physician nor do I have medical training, but I can read, research, and draw conclusions and doctors and medical researchers are noticing that not only does COVID-19 cause a pulmonary problem very much like Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) necessitating intubation, but apparently it can also lead to strokes in patients due to a blood clotting/thickening effect, and apparently it causes strange skin rashes similar to effect the chickenpox virus has, but not as widespread, and not restricted to children.
ReplyDeleteI think people may have the wrong idea that you get it, you get sick, you develop antibodies and get over it and move on, sort of like the flu, but more and more it looks like this is a virus that doesn't simply "go away" once you get it and "get over it". It appears to stick around in the body and randomly reactivate. There are multiple studies demonstating the virus reactivatung in patients who have developed antibodies and recovered.
The chickenpox virus also stays in a person for life, randomly reactivating and causing shingles. Likewise the malaria virus. Years after recovery, even decades, the same resident but dormant malaria virus can and does reactivate and make people just as sick as they were originally.
Not to be too indelicate but it's the same type of feature seen in certain viral STD's like herpes. Again it's the gift that keeps on giving.
The more we figure out about this particular coronavirus the less we realize we know, and the scarier it gets. It's worth noting these conditions are not limited to the elderly, although they have the highest mortality rates due to more comorbities.
Here are several links:
https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-toes-skin-rashes-tied-to-covid-19
https://www.foxnews.com/health/blood-clotting-seen-possible-threat-coronavirus-patients
https://www.foxnews.com/health/even-after-respiratory-symptoms-fade-coronavirus-victims-face-new-danger
https://youtu.be/0yrCjsaZKg8