As coronavirus cripples the world, scientists struggle to keep up with its growing symptoms and complications
In this file photo taken on April 9, 2020, a medical staff member exits a room protected by a transparent tarpaulin after taking care of a patient infected with Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Franco-Britannique hospital in Levallois-Perret, northern Paris.
"Most viruses can cause disease in two ways," explained Jeremy Rossman, a senior lecturer in virology at the University of Kent. Dozens of medical studies in recent weeks have detailed other potentially lethal impacts including strokes and heart damage. There are nearly 3.8 million confirmed Covid-19 cases around the world, but the true number of infections –– taking into account undetected and asymptomatic infection –– "is going to be in the tens, possibly hundreds of millions," he said.Some of the rarer symptoms associated with Covid-19 are also known to have been triggered by influenza, which kills several hundred thousand people worldwide every year, he noted.
The list kept growing: skin lesions, neurological problems, sharp chest pains, loss of taste and smell. Three-quarters of the patients experienced chills, fever and/or coughing, with nearly as many showing shortness of breath. Nearly a third complained of flu-like muscle aches, while 28 percent experienced diarrhoea and a quarter nausea or vomiting, according to the internal report, leaked to the media.
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