Additional research into the lingering health problems of some coronavirus victims

As post-COVID heart and brain problems linger, some coronavirus survivors find it's a long haul to recovery A large online movement of COVID-19 survivors who are still sick are outraged at how casually many Americans are treating the coronavirus threat. YahooNews

... (There is) a large and growing online movement of COVID-19 survivors who are still sick and who call themselves “long-haulers.” What unites them is outrage at how casually many Americans are treating the coronavirus threat and a sense of building dread regarding their own future health.

More than 3.9 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, and more than 142,000 have died. As with Alionar and Harris, many survivors are reporting ongoing symptoms, sometimes lasting for months after initial infection. Rehab centers have opened across Europe to help COVID-19 survivors recover, but there are only a few in the U.S.

Mount Sinai Health System in New York did recently launch a Center for Post-COVID Care. When announcing the effort, the hospital noted “mounting evidence” suggesting COVID-19 patients are at risk for “multiple systemic complications including thromboembolic disease [blood clots, including ones that may cause strokes], systemic inflammatory response syndrome, cardiovascular complications, and hepatic [liver] and renal [kidney] impairment.”

Dr. Allison Navis is the clinical neurologist for Mount Sinai’s center, where she has seen scores of patients suffering from headaches, cognitive problems and nerve pain. She said that for most of her patients, the neurological problems began well after the rest of their symptoms subsided, raising questions about whether the symptoms are due to the virus attacking major organs or are the result of an immune response to the virus. Navis is part of a research effort the hospital has launched to answer these types of questions by following COVID-19 patients for a full year after infection to track outcomes and by studying the brains of patients who died.

“A lot of my patients are younger, and I think what’s also interesting is a lot of them weren’t hospitalized,” Navis said in an interview with Yahoo News. “It’s very interesting that we are seeing these residual symptoms in people who we wouldn’t consider being the sickest of the sick with COVID, and it makes it harder to understand what’s going on.”...