The novel coronavirus could inflict lasting damage on the body's major organs, impairing for years the lung and heart functions of those who become critically ill with the disease.
The first known reported case of COVID-19 only emerged a little over four months ago in China and Australian infectious disease experts said it is impossible to draw any concrete conclusions about the long-term health implications. "It’s a bit of an unknown because we haven't had enough time to monitor patient outcomes over time,” University of NSW senior medical virologist Professor Bill Rawlinson said. “It’s an area that is really being guessed at the moment in many ways.”
"We’re very worried about the people who have an immune response which is exaggerated and does it best to kill the virus, but it also damages our own physiology," Professor Booy explained."What that does is damage our own measures to protect ourselves so the lungs are eventually scarred and reduced in capacity. That combination of the virus and our immune response to it could mean that we have damage that goes on for months and years and that’s a real worry.
"The scarring and the damage could go on not just for months, but years, meaning that people who have survived are at increased risk of dying from further lung insults," he said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Apparently bbq bats in Florida is good, bat soup in China is Coronavirus!
Nonsense....on what basis can this long term prognosis be claimed.
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Not just the critically ill... It can affect the organs of people with even mild cases and younger than 50...
Don't you mean the Chinese Virus? There are various types of coronaviruses.
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