Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected.
This looks like a new twist in this saga.
Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged — not just at Mount Sinai, but also in many other hospitals in communities hit hard by the coronavirus— are the latest twist in our evolving understanding of covid-19. Even as the virus has infected nearly 2.8 million people worldwide and killed about 195,000 as of Friday, its biological mechanisms continue to elude top scientific minds. Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has turned out to be a much more formidable foe — impacting nearly every major organ system in the body.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...rending_now__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1
Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...f71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
This looks like a new twist in this saga.
Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged — not just at Mount Sinai, but also in many other hospitals in communities hit hard by the coronavirus— are the latest twist in our evolving understanding of covid-19. Even as the virus has infected nearly 2.8 million people worldwide and killed about 195,000 as of Friday, its biological mechanisms continue to elude top scientific minds. Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has turned out to be a much more formidable foe — impacting nearly every major organ system in the body.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...rending_now__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1
Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...f71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
