Imagine a disease that wrecks every organ in your body from the brain to the kidneys after reducing your lungs to shards of glass. Such a diseases exists. It's called #COVID19.
“Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”
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“Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”
science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…
Not only does #COVID19 attack every organ in your body, it attacks the blood itself. These blood clots can end up blocking arteries in the lungs, killing the patient. They can end up in the brain, causing a stroke.
27% of 85 hospitalized patients in Wuhan had kidney failure. 1 in 4.
5% to 10% of coronavirus patients at a NYC hospital had brain damage symptoms such as encephalitis and seizures.
5% to 10% of coronavirus patients at a NYC hospital had brain damage symptoms such as encephalitis and seizures.
We still don't know what the long term health impacts are going to be for #COVID19 survivors. The full impacts may not be known for years to come.
