Doctors are reporting that COVID-19 may be linked to patients developing blood clots. Several young, otherwise healthy people were admitted to New York hospitals for major strokes.
, a professor of surgery and interim director of the critical care center at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
"The dialysis machines almost never clot," Coopersmith says"And we were finding that the machines were clotting two or three or four times a day." "We have literally five different teams in the hospital specifically and only looking at blood clotting, just because of COVID," he says.
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