Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body

Interesting article. I think the dry cough and fever were almost red herrings but based on what we knew of covid at the time.
I know somebody testing positive based on loss of taste and smell alone with a few achey muscles.
 
It is an interesting article, but I can't help feeling it's all a bit sensationalist and designed to tug at the old fear molecules!!

Why can't the media just be informative and try to create a balanced article....Reading that and some of their other linked articles leaves you with visions of people just randomly dropping dead all over the place. It doesn't seem to reflect reality insomuch as most people hitting the hospitals still seem to be presenting with fairly similar symptoms.... Generally speaking, most people seem to have no really serious issues and barely notice they have an infection and then a rather tiny proportion of people (including some kids) are presenting with slightly different symptoms (like the ones mentioned in the article).
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
It is an interesting article, but I can't help feeling it's all a bit sensationalist and designed to tug at the old fear molecules!!

Why can't the media just be informative and try to create a balanced article....Reading that and some of their other linked articles leaves you with visions of people just randomly dropping dead all over the place. It doesn't seem to reflect reality insomuch as most people hitting the hospitals still seem to be presenting with fairly similar symptoms.... Generally speaking, most people seem to have no really serious issues and barely notice they have an infection and then a rather tiny proportion of people (including some kids) are presenting with slightly different symptoms (like the ones mentioned in the article).
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I think I took the article in a different way. As in so many may have had it but been fobbed off because they weren’t gasping for breath with a fever.
The milder cases have probably been excluded and ignored from all the statistical data.
 
Good article, maybe explaining some of the strange things happening around this disease in some cases. Some pretty heavyweight hospitals in there, more likely to believe them than a lot of the conspiracy theorists, on both sides.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
It is an interesting article, but I can't help feeling it's all a bit sensationalist and designed to tug at the old fear molecules!!

Why can't the media just be informative and try to create a balanced article....Reading that and some of their other linked articles leaves you with visions of people just randomly dropping dead all over the place. It doesn't seem to reflect reality insomuch as most people hitting the hospitals still seem to be presenting with fairly similar symptoms.... Generally speaking, most people seem to have no really serious issues and barely notice they have an infection and then a rather tiny proportion of people (including some kids) are presenting with slightly different symptoms (like the ones mentioned in the article).
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It's an article about how doctors are discovering more about how the disease affects the body not about how many bodies it affects. It's important to understand the processes of even the rarest of conditions in order to figure out how to treat patients.
 
One of my mates' wife has been diagnosed positive after losing sense of smell and taste plus a sore throat. She's a nurse working in a care home where 10 have died to date. She's been off work a week and subject to her throat getting better, she's been told she can return to work on Wednesday while the rest of the family have to self isolate until after the weekend.
 
Loco said:
It's an article about how doctors are discovering more about how the disease affects the body not about how many bodies it affects. It's important to understand the processes of even the rarest of conditions in order to figure out how to treat patients.
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Yes, I get that... I just find some of the language they use to be a bit alarmist, rather than informative. They need to generate interest in the article of course and maybe it's alarming, because it is actually alarming.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Yes, I get that... I just find some of the language they use to be a bit alarmist, rather than informative. They need to generate interest in the article of course and maybe it's alarming, because it is actually alarming.
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I'd say it is alarming. My take on the article is that it is trying to demonstrate the clinical nightmare being faced and the huge amount of firefighting being undertaken in hospitals. The first and last paragraphs are the human interest bit that I personally could do without but the rest is fascinating.
 
From the little bit I learned way back in the day Corona like viruses can cause virtually any symptom, they generally cause respiratory as that's how they enter but can crop up anywhere in the body.
 
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