Covid19 Part XVI- 21,983 in ROI (1,339 deaths) 3,881 in NI (404 deaths)(05/05)Read OP

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Interesting article on how strange the effects of the virus on some people are.

"Blood clots form throughout the body. The brain and intestines may also be affected. Some suffer changes to their personality, suggesting brain damage."

How is this possible?' Researchers grapple with Covid-19's mysterious mechanism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/how-is-this-possible-researchers-grapple-with-covid-19s-mysterious-mechanism

It's a puzzler alright Ig, though if you look at other viral illnesses you'll always have a percentage of people with weird symptoms. So there's that. If you take influenza, particularly the nasty strains you'll have up to a quarter of infected that will have zero symptoms, most will have the "usual" symptoms in varying degrees of severity, from felling a bit meh all the way up to dying from it, but you'll also have a small percentage with oddball symptoms too. Rashes, gastro issues, septic shock type symptoms. In the very old flu can come with delirium and confusion which suggests neurological involvement. IIRC the 1918 Spanish pandemic had its fair share of odd symptoms in many.

Now this is a new virus for us all(though we've likely all had some form of coronavirus before. A percentage of the common cold is corona in nature) and we're scrabbling to keep track of the little bastard, so the natural tendency is to jump at everything and anything that comes along, from odd symptoms to treatments.

Plus it's possible that some of the treatments we're giving to the hospitalised might be causing symptoms that aren't actually Covid19 in nature, or are interacting in a way that makes it look like they could be.

I don't blame the Gardai in many cases like that P. I mean it was what, a fortnight or more after the lockdown came in where they were given any extra powers to enforce it. Plus if they do come out all guns blazing they're damned. They're damned if the do, or if they don't.