Doctors Begin to Crack Covid’s Mysterious Long-Term Effects

So far they are identifying long term damage.  My sense is that this is all associated with gastrointestinal involvement.  Facing all that I would go for long fasts and strong vitamin C therapy along with a strongly biased diet to see if anything changes.

That could be eating vegetarian for four days three off.  You get the idea.

However, we need to discover if we can shake all this.  Remember that we have other ailments behaving in this manner as well.  The  victims often never shake what is slowly doing them in.

The whole field of chronic sickness is poorly researched and our system fails these folks by sticking bandaids on the pig until they go away unsatidfied.

This is going to happen again and we do need to discover if this is a planned and triggered infection.  We know it is contageous inasmuch that care givers exposed can become sick as well and die.

Doctors Begin to Crack Covid’s Mysterious Long-Term Effects

Severe fatigue, memory lapses, heart problems affect patients who weren’t that badly hit initially; ‘It’s been so long’Elizabeth Moore has been plagued by memory problems. 

By Sarah Toy, Sumathi Reddy and Daniela Hernandez

Nov. 1, 2020 12:49 pm ET

Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning to unlock a puzzling phenomenon: For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalization, Covid-19 has a devastating second act.

Many are dealing with symptoms weeks or months after they were expected to recover, often with puzzling new complications that can affect the entire body—severe fatigue, cognitive issues and memory lapses, digestive problems, erratic heart rates, headaches, dizziness, fluctuating blood pressure, even hair loss.

What is surprising to doctors is that many such cases involve people whose original cases weren’t the most serious, undermining the assumption that patients with mild Covid-19 recover within two weeks. Doctors call the condition “post-acute Covid” or “chronic Covid,” and sufferers often refer to themselves as “long haulers” or “long-Covid” patients.

“Usually, the patients with bad disease are most likely to have persistent symptoms, but Covid doesn’t work like that,” said Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care at the University of Oxford and the lead author of an August BMJ study that was among the first to define chronic Covid patients as those with symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks and spanning multiple organ systems.

For many such patients, she said, “the disease itself is not that bad,” but symptoms like memory lapses and rapid heart rate sometimes persist for months.

Many people who contract COVID-19 are experiencing symptoms or complications weeks or months after they were expected to recover. Patients may suffer from such things as severe fatigue, cognitive and memory problems, digestive issues, erratic heart rates, and even hair loss.

Many people who contract COVID-19 are experiencing symptoms or complications weeks or months after they were expected to recover. Patients may suffer from such things as severe fatigue, cognitive and memory problems, digestive issues, erratic heart rates, and even hair loss. Physicians are finding that many of these cases involve people whose original symptoms were not the most severe. 

For example, Elizabeth Moore, a 43-year-old lawyer and mother in Valparaiso, IN, was an enthusiastic skier and worked out several times a week, but after becoming ill from COVID-19 in March, has been experiencing memory problems and gastrointestinal issues, and has lost nearly 30 pounds. Physicians are calling the condition "post-acute COVID" or "chronic COVID," while patients refer to "long haulers" or "long-COVID." 

A recent survey of more than 4,000 COVID-19 patients revealed that roughly 10% of those aged 18-49 years continued to deal with symptoms 4 weeks after becoming sick, 4.5% of all ages had symptoms for more than 8 weeks, and 2.3% had them for more than 12 weeks. The study was conducted using an app created by health-science firm Zoe in conjunction with King's College London and Massachusetts General Hospital; it awaits peer review. Walter Royal, a neurovirologist and director of Morehouse School of Medicine's Neuroscience Institute, notes that the novel coronavirus often infects the lining of the blood vessels, causing damage and inflammation eventually affects the brain.