Nurses claim a previously unreported coronavirus symptom in tearful CNN interview

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In an exclusive interview with CNN, nurses from the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington that saw the first major outbreak of the coronavirus tearfully described trying to care for their charges and revealed new details about symptoms their patients experienced.

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During the extensive interview, nurse Chelsey Earnest said she saw symptoms that have not been noted by the media.

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“It’s something that I witnessed in all of them,” Earnest recalled. “They have, like — you can describe it like allergy eyes. The white part of your eye is not red, it’s more like they have red eye shadow on the outside of their eyes. But we’ve had patients that just had the red eyes as the only symptom that we saw and go to the hospital and pass away in the hospital.”

“I’ve even had the disaster medical control physician say, ‘Do they have the red eyes?’ And I will say yes. And he’ll say, ‘I’ll find you a bed.’ It’s just something about this, the way that it affects these patients.”

According to CNN’s Sidner, red eyes as a COVID-19 symptom is not currently noted on the Centers for Disease Control website.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/nurses-reveal-a-previously-unreported-coronavirus-symptom-in-tearful-cnn-interview/

[marybourg]

1. If red eye were the only symptom, what were

They going to the hospital for? This source should be banned from DU

[thesquanderer]

10. The source was CNN. The CNN video is there on the linked page. n/t

[Roland99]

2. CBS affiliate posted CNN article

https://www.wktv.com/content/national/569046222.html

But I don’t see it at cnn

[Leith]

3. Here's the link to the CNN story

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/coronavirus-nurses-inside-washington-care-home/index.html

I'm going to be on the lookout for red eyes.

[IronLionZion]

4. Who the hell goes to the hospital for red eyes?

If it's the only symptom, this is obvious bullshit fake news as the CDC and NIH are probably not trying to suppress this.

I would not want to be having tired red eyes or an eye infection or allergies if this is the level of dangerous misinformation people are spreading. It's bad enough that people run from me when I sneeze from allergies. Sooner or later someone is going to get shot.

Googling shows only the fake news conservative media are running with this.

[thesquanderer]

11. It's from CNN, not "fake news conservative media"

and I don't think there was anything about anyone trying to suppress it.

But it appears to be anecdotal at this time.

[IronLionZion]

12. New York Post and Newsmax are the ones sharing this story

[thesquanderer]

18. And RawStory, obviously. But the source is more important than the sharers. n/t

[IronLionZion]

21. I'll trust CDC and NIH to tell us the truth n/t

[GusBob]

5. I was an eye dr in nursing home for years

By her description she is not talking about conjunctivitis ( she specially mentions the white part of the eye, thats the bulbar conjunctiva that gets red in eye infection)

She is talking about the skin around the eyes that can get red in allergies which she again mentions. This is known as erythema, the red shadow

My first guess would be blepheritis an eyelid infection. Very very very common in nursing homes. Bacterial though, but in an immune compromised patient it could rage out of control

My next guess would be a sign of severe oxygen depletion

My last guess would be coincidental allergies

[cstanleytech]

7. Well in my area I would go with allergies as the pollen around here has been thick enough that it

looks like a thin hazy smog in the distance.

[appleannie1]

14. Since it clogs the lungs, oxygen depletion is probably the answer.

[GusBob]

17. Its a guess and not a very good one

It would cause a bluish tinge more likely
That is known as cyanosis

[LAS14]

15. Oxygen depletion is a coronovirus symptom. Could they have oxygen depltion and the red...

... eye and nothing else? No cough?

[GusBob]

16. See post 2

There were other symptoms

This whole “red eye was the only symptom” is something lost in translation here

It could be clickbait people love to hear and talk about their eyes, trust me

[elias7]

22. Maybe a heliotrope rash, like in poly/dermatomyositis?

[cstanleytech]

6. Makes no sense as if red eyes were a symptom then then the WHO would have said so as there is zero

reason not to as its so obvious that no one could overlook it.

[GusBob]

9. Good point

It was a symptom noted in this nursing home only

And from the sound of things they were overwhelmed

[EllieBC]

8. I remember hearing something similar once about small pox.

There was a guy on CBC radio, I don’t know if he was an author or what he was, and it was like probably at least 10 years ago now and he was talking about how at the height of the smallpox outbreak a lot of doctors said that they could tell if a patient has smallpox before they started exhibiting symptoms by a certain look they had in their eyes. And these doctors really couldn’t elaborate on it except to just explain that it was like a far off distant look with anxiety and panic even if the person wasn’t showing signs of anxiety and panic.

[appleannie1]

13. I have 'dry eye' since I had cataracts removed. Mine are always red.

[LiberalArkie]

19. Check this out

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10531858#post6

[cstanleytech]

20. Your point?

Unless it's actually confirmed to be caused by the virus it could be just about anything else causing it from a secondary infection due to bacteria to an allergy not to mention crying.