Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[haxxiy]

SvennoJ said:

haxxiy said:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-covid-patients-long-term-lung-heart.html

Follow-up study on formerly hospitalized patients from Austria show decreasing lung damage and other after-effects in the months following discharge. No severe heart disfuction related to SARS-CoV-2 was observed. Rehabilitation seems to speed up the path to complete recovery as well.

Good news it eventually gets better, however

It is sobering to hear that more than half of the patients in this study showed damage to their lungs and hearts 12 weeks after hospital discharge, and that nearly 40% were still suffering from symptoms such as breathlessness. The good news, however, is that patients do improve and this surely will help the rehabilitation process, as discussed in the second presentation.

We still aren't any wiser whether my wife actually had Covid-19 in Februari, but she is still often short of breath. It's been 6 months now... Too late for regular anti-body tests, not that you can get them here nor T-cell tests (if that exists).

The average age of this group is 61, mostly are male and smokers. All have been hospitalized, with a significant portion needing mechanical ventilation even. It doesn't seem feasible your wife would be worse off than these people unless perhaps she's a true long-hauler, but then, these are in truth fairly rare and you would be able to test it.

There's probably a million posts out there in the internet of people wondering if their bad January or February flu was actually Covid-19. Truth is, statistically speaking, the chances are insignificant. Severe bouts of influenza and common cold do happen from time to time, even to healthy, fit people, and these can and will cause organ damage to some (including even the heart).