The list of mysterious coronavirus-related symptoms is getting longer and longer.
The last unexpected side effect happened to an 86-year-old woman from Italy, whose fingers were blackened with gangrene, because COVID-19 caused severe coagulation, interrupting the blood supply to her extremities.
Doctors were forced to amputate three figures after they diagnosed the woman in April 2020, calling the case study a “severe manifestation” of the disease in a new report published in the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
Doctors were already aware that coronavirus could wreak havoc on the vascular system, although they are not yet sure why. Currently, many in the medical community believe that the side effect may be related to an increasingly common immune response to COVID-19, called the “cytokine storm”, which causes the body to attack both diseased cells and healthy tissues.
The medical community continues to discover new, unexpected conditions for the disease – as the US approaches 27 million cases this week since the March 2020 outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. While many face conditions similar to those associated with the flu, such as fever, body aches, breathing problems and nasal congestion, other common warning signs have included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and a mysterious inability to taste and smell, according to the Centers or the disease. Control and prevention.
Even a year after the pandemic, scientists still identify unforeseen symptoms. Last week, King’s College London researcher Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology, revealed that one in five patients with COVID-19 reports less common illnesses, such as skin rashes, sores and enlarged tongue, which are not included in the CDC’s list of symptoms.
Spector’s speculation stems from data collected by the UK’s ZOE COVID Symptom Study, which encourages Britons to self-report what they experience during an infection. Spector told USA Today last week that the “COVID language,” in which the tongues of coronavirus patients swell inexplicably, is one of the rarest symptoms he has observed, “affecting less than 1 in 100 people.” loved the.