RE: Long Covid - another huge market22 Jun 2021 16:46
Certainly looks like treatments will be needed for long term covid 19 or a serious amount of therapy.
Significant brain damage
Researchers also discovered some unexpected findings in patients' brains, the Post reports.
In March, a study from China published in the BMJ's Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry found that 22% of 113 Covid-19 patients studied had neurological problems ranging anywhere from excessive sleepiness to coma. And in June, other research from France found that 84% of Covid-19 patients in intensive care had neurological symptoms, the Post reports.
As a result of such reports, Isaac Solomon, a neuropathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, wanted to determine where the new coronavirus embedded itself in the brain. However, Solomon found bits of the virus only in some areas of the brain and just a few small pockets of inflammation. And it wasn't clear whether the pieces of coronavirus that Solomon found in the brains were dead remnants of the virus or if they had been active when the patients died.
But Solomon noticed a lot of brain damage as a result of oxygen deprivation—no matter if the patient examined was a longtime ICU patient or a person who died very suddenly of Covid-19.
Solomon said his research underscores the need to put people on supplementary oxygen to prevent irreversible damage to the brain. It also suggests brain damage resulting from the coronavirus occurs over a long period of time, which made Solomon curious about how the virus might affect the brains of those with mild cases of Covid-19.
"The big lingering question is what happens to people who survive Covid[-19]?" he said. "Is there a lingering effect on the brain?"
Similarly, the scientists from Mount Sinai looked at 20 brains and found little inflammation or virus presence. However, they did find a "striking" presence of small clots. "If you have one blood clot in the brain, we see that all the time," Fowkes said. "But what we're seeing is, some patients are having multiple strokes in blood vessels that are in two or even three different territories."
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