Coronavirus Patients Are Reporting Neurological Symptoms. Here's What You Need to Know

[Judi Lynn]

JEREMY ROSSMAN, THE CONVERSATION 27 APRIL 2020

As case numbers of COVID-19 continue to rise around the world, we are starting to see an increasing number of reports of neurological symptoms. Some studies report that over a third of patients show neurological symptoms.

In the vast majority of cases, COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that causes fever, aches, tiredness, sore throat, cough and, in more severe cases, shortness of breath and respiratory distress.

Yet we now understand that COVID-19 can also infect cells outside of the respiratory tract and cause a wide range of symptoms from gastrointestinal disease (diarrhoea and nausea) to heart damage and blood clotting disorders. It appears that we have to add neurological symptoms to this list, too.

Several recent studies have identified the presence of neurological symptoms in COVID-19 cases. Some of these studies are case reports where symptoms are observed in individuals.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/some-covid-19-patients-are-also-reporting-neurological-symptoms

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