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55% Of Coronavirus Patients Still Have Neurological Problems Three Months Later
And many “long-haulers,” or COVID-19 patients who have continued showing symptoms for months after the initial infection passed, report neurological problems such as confusion and difficulty concentrating (or brain fog), as well as headaches, extreme fatigue, mood changes, insomnia and loss of taste and/or smell.
Indeed, the CDC recently warned that it takes longer to recover from COVID-19 than the 10- to 14-day quarantine window that has been touted throughout the pandemic. In fact, one in five young adults under 34 was not back to their usual health up to three weeks after testing positive. And 35% of surveyed U.S. adults overall had not returned to their normal state of health when interviewed two to three weeks after testing.
Now a study of 60 COVID-19 patients published in Lancet this week finds that 55% of them were still displaying such neurological symptoms during follow-up visits three months later. And when doctors compared brain scans of these 60 COVID patients with those of a control group who had not been infected, they found that the brains of the COVID patients showed structural changes that correlated with memory loss and smell loss.
MARKETWATCH Posted at 9:45 pm on August 8, 2020
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Asymptomatic people have as much coronavirus as noticeably sick patients, study finds
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Studies suggest millions of people who have been infected with the coronavirus never even realized they had it, never felt ill, never had any symptoms. That doesn’t mean they didn’t pass it along.
Are asymptomatic people contagious? And if so, how effectively do they spread COVID-19? The debate continues among infectious disease experts on both of those questions, but a new study provides some answers.
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Researchers in South Korea tested 303 people in isolation following an outbreak, to determine their viral load, meaning how much of the coronavirus was in their bodily fluid. About 30% of them were asymptomatic, while the rest were already ill or soon would be.
Testing found roughly the same level of coronavirus in the noses, throats and mouths of asymptomatic patients as those who were sick — suggesting they may be just as able to spread COVID-19.
Scientists didn’t track the asymptomatic carriers after testing to see if they infected others, the study said. Still, their findings provide more evidence for asymptomatic spread, which is often cited by experts and officials.
The World Health Organization estimates 16% of people who catch the coronavirus don’t experience symptoms and can infect others, Market Watch reported. |
