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NYC man’s fatal brain disease linked to COVID-19: ‘Highly likely’
NY Post ^ | 09/22/2023 | Andrew Court

Posted on 09/22/2023 1:18:17 PM PDT by DFG

While long-term COVID-19 can cause brain fog, erectile dysfunction and hair loss, experts say the coronavirus could also contribute to another health condition: deadly brain disease.

Doctors from Mount Sinai Queens’ said it’s “highly likely” COVID contributed to a New York City man developing fatal prion disease.

Two months before he was admitted to the hospital, the 62-year-old Queens local started to drool and move at a slower pace, the doctors wrote in an article published Thursday by the American Journal of Case Reports.

The unidentified man was only taken to the medical facility after he was found at home after a fall, unable to walk and confabulating, with intermittent, brief rapid involuntary jerks.

“On admission, he was found to be COVID-19 positive, but was . . . asymptomatic aside from the typical COVID respiratory manifestations,” the case study read.

Medics performed a series of tests on the man, including CT and MRI scans of the brain, “both of which were repeated twice and were normal without any diffusion restriction.”

However, the man’s condition continued to deteriorate.

“Approximately 3 weeks into hospitalization, the patient became progressively mute and had difficulty swallowing soft foods, requiring PEG [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] tube placement,” the doctors wrote of the need for the feeding tube. “He subsequently became spastic with severe pain on passive flexion-extension. Six weeks after admission, the patient was declared dead.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; mountsinai; pegtube; priondisease
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To: TheWriterTX

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41 posted on 09/22/2023 8:29:32 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Red Badger

Don’t forget scabies, hangnails, and gas. .


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To: joshua c

One of the side effects of covid “vax” is posting stupid, uneducated comments and being in denial, despite clinical evidences of serious harm.

But get a booster.


43 posted on 09/22/2023 8:45:37 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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