Long-suffering SARS patients offer clues about the futures that may await Covid-19 long-haulers | BISouthAfrica
, while the World Health Organization reported that recovery could last up to six weeks for severe or critical patients. More recently, both agencies have acknowledged that the coronavirus may have longer-term symptoms, but neither has offered a timeline. said in July
"We're all kind of diagnosing each other," Peggy Goroly, a 56-year-old from Long Island who belongs to a coronavirus support group on Facebook, told Business Insider."You'll hear someone else say something and then you realize it's happening to you, too." , a primary-care practice that's collecting data on coronavirus patients around the country, told Business Insider. Recovering coronavirus patients train on a machine to strengthen muscle tone at the Department of Rehabilitative Cardiology in Genoa, Italy, on July 22, 2020.
An aggressive immune response to the virus could also trigger inflammation in the body that damages healthy tissue. "It's an inflammatory disease that is interfering with the conduction of the normal pathways of the nervous system," Moldofsky said. Roberto Bruzzone, a 57-year-old coronavirus patient, has an ultrasound at the Department of Rehabilitative Cardiology in Genoa, Italy, on July 22, 2020.A major challenge in studying the effects of Covid-19 — in addition to the lack of long-term data — is that patients who feel sick can appear healthy on paper.
Doctors were similarly confounded by lingering, mysterious ailments among SARS patients, he added, since their MRIs didn't show obvious damage to the nervous systems.The patients also didn't respond to treatment.
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