Coronavirus - symptoms
Confusion, seizure, strokes: How COVID-19 may affect the brain
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine this week examining 58 patients in Strasbourg, France found that more than half were confused or agitated, with brain imaging suggesting inflammation...
...Frontera, who is also a professor at NYU School of Medicine... is documenting striking cases including seizures in COVID-19 patients with no prior history of the episodes, and “unique” new patterns of tiny brain hemorrhages.
One startling finding concerns the case of a man in his fifties whose white matter — the parts of the brain that connect brain cells to each other — was so severely damaged it “would basically render him in a state of profound brain damage,” she said.
we talked about this a few days ago, but the ‘white matter’ evidence is new
. Older patients are not so much quarantined as stranded, unwilling or unable to get up from their hard plastic beds without help, workers say. Other, younger patients are free to roam the halls with no masks....
...As of Thursday, NBC News had identified more than 1,450 COVID-19 cases at state mental health facilities in 23 states and Washington, D.C. — roughly double the total reported in the federal prison system.
When did Biden get Coronavirus? /ba dum t'sssh>
Hey, it’s just the flu.