I know a 40 year old woman who just had a major stroke without coronavirus.
Happens every day. Look at just ONE cause of “Stroke”. Subarachnoid Aneurysmal Hemmorage. Hunt and Hess in the 1950s. Thousands every year and half die immediately a large percentage go on to die two weeks later when they rebleed (if not provided the benefit of surgery). Hypertensive hemorrhages. Happens every day. In my experience frequently in addition to drugs that rapidly raise the blood pressure, like COcaine and AMphertamine. Kids get AVMs that bleed and produce “strokes”. Stroke is just a word that includes a wide range of differ Neurological events.
We’ve had two professional athletes here in Pittsburgh who had strokes in their 20’s.