Reuters:
Scientists warned on Wednesday of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium.
A study by researchers at University College London (UCL)described 43 cases of patients with COVID-19 who suffered either temporary brain dysfunction, strokes, nerve damage or other serious brain effects.
The research adds to recent studies which also found the disease can damage the brain.
“Whether we will see an epidemic on a large scale of brain damage linked to the pandemic – perhaps similar to the encephalitis lethargica outbreak in the 1920s and 1930s after the 1918 influenza pandemic – remains to be seen,” said Michael Zandi, from UCL’s Institute of Neurology, who co-led the study.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is largely a respiratory illness that affects the lungs, but neuroscientists and specialist brain doctors say emerging evidence of its impact on the brain is concerning.
Seems like maybe Reuters needs to check their shit. This piece makes it sound like COVID-19 is somehow primarily a respiratory thing, when it isn't.
Its primary entryway is thru the lungs, but they're finding out that it finds its way into practically every little nook and cranny by attacking the endothelial cells (basically the linings of the blood vessels), which of course are everywhere.
So if you get even a "mild" case, you could be left with damaged tissue anywhere you can name. And it's not limited to organs like kidneys and livers - it's a systemic thing.
There are people losing legs because the damage COVID-19 is doing to their circulatory system decreases blood flow to muscle tissue.
There are people left with what are more or less permanent conditions akin to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and myocarditis.
This thing is a monster straight outa your worst sci-fi nightmare.
So if you get even a "mild" case, you could be left with damaged tissue anywhere you can name. And it's not limited to organs like kidneys and livers - it's a systemic thing.
There are people losing legs because the damage COVID-19 is doing to their circulatory system decreases blood flow to muscle tissue.
There are people left with what are more or less permanent conditions akin to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and myocarditis.
This thing is a monster straight outa your worst sci-fi nightmare.
WEAR THE FUCKING MASK
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