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haxxiy on 06 July 2020
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JRPGfan said:

SvennoJ said:

Thats a straigt up Lie.

Apparently its quite common to lose Smell & taste, when your developeing symptoms.
Around 10% of people that get this, NEVER get their sense of smell or taste back.

Long term damage:

Heart Damage:
One study published in March found that out of 416 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 19% showed signs of heart damage.
Another study from Wuhan published in January found 12% of Covid-19 patients showed signs of cardiovascular damage.
Other studies have since found evidence of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle that can cause scarring, and heart failure in Covid-19 patients.

Lung Damage:
Physicians have also found evidence of scarring in Covid-19 patients' lungs. "ground-glass opacities," which don't always heal.
One Chinese study found the patches in 77% of patients.
Research shows that about one third of survivors of similar coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS had long-term lung damage.


Its linked to increased diabetees, ei. people that have gotten covid19, afterwards have higher chances of diabetees.
Theres all kinds of organ damages, kidney, heart, liver, brain... ect.  Alot of it is permanent damage.

To be fair, 12% - 19% of hospitalized patients, and 10% of those with anosmia, should both be around or below 1% of all infections.

Lung damage is trickier since we don't know the percentage of people who develop pneumonia from this, but these should also be a subset of those hospitalized except for a few people, specially among the elderly, who won't develop symptoms from lung inflammation.

Regardless... I'm surprised people never came to the realization disease causes damage, at least for some time. If only you knew the sort of tissue scarring I've seen in tonsilectomy ops, after just a few recurring episodes of strep throat... it ain't pretty I tell you.

Again, not trying to minimize this, just put in context and make people realize how much, much worse this could have been. Imagine a particulatly virulent adenovirus type 14 that causes progressive constrictive bronchiolitis in a significant number of infections a few months later. Or a random mutation making a filovirus airborne and infectious to humans, like it happened in a párticular monkey population not long ago.