I saw a physician interviewed on OAN last night, who was saying there's a big problem with blood clotting in COVID-19 patients, and that this wasn't recognized at first. Sometimes it's causing strokes -- in a few cases that was the first thing that sent a patient to a hospital -- but also causing clotting elsewhere (I would assume including lungs, but I didn't catch the whole segment). A couple of days ago, I read about an actor who had a leg amputated due to a clot which developed while he was hospitalized for coronavirus.
Yes, and all physicians know that. This is something different. In addition to seeing unusual clotting in already hospitalized patients, they're seeing it in young healthy people upon admission, including a couple of cases where a stroke was what prompted them to be taken to a hospital, and they had not yet had any other symtpoms of COVID-19.
I saw a physician interviewed on OAN last night, who was saying there's a big problem with blood clotting in COVID-19 patients, and that this wasn't recognized at first. Sometimes it's causing strokes -- in a few cases that was the first thing that sent a patient to a hospital -- but also causing clotting elsewhere (I would assume including lungs, but I didn't catch the whole segment). A couple of days ago, I read about an actor who had a leg amputated due to a clot which developed while he was hospitalized for coronavirus.
Clots are common in hospital stays, many patients who are admitted are put on blood thinners for that reason
Yes, and all physicians know that. This is something different. In addition to seeing unusual clotting in already hospitalized patients, they're seeing it in young healthy people upon admission, including a couple of cases where a stroke was what prompted them to be taken to a hospital, and they had not yet had any other symtpoms of COVID-19.