The list of mysterious symptoms associated with the coronavirus is getting longer.
The latest unexpected side effect happened to an 86-year-old woman in Italy, whose fingers turned black from gangrene because COVID-19 caused severe clotting, which cut off the blood supply to her limbs.
Doctors were forced to amputate three of her figures after diagnosing the woman in April 2020, calling the case study a ‘serious manifestation’ of the disease in a new report published in the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery .
Doctors were already aware that the coronavirus could wreak havoc on the vascular system, but they still do not know why. Currently, many in the medical community believe that the side effect may be related to an increasingly common immune response to COVID-19, called a “cytokine storm”, which encourages the body to attack both diseases and healthy tissues.
The medical community is still discovering new, unexpected conditions of the disease – as the US approaches 27 million cases since the outbreak of March 2020, according to data from the World Health Organization. While many people experience diseases such as those associated with the flu, such as fever, body aches, breathing problems and nasal congestion, according to the centers or diseases, there is also nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and a mysterious inability to taste and smell. Control and prevention.
Even a year into the pandemic, scientists are still determining unexpected symptoms. Last week, King’s College London researcher Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology, reveal that one in five COVID-19 patients reports fewer diseases, such as skin rash, mouth ulcers and an enlarged tongue, which are not on the CDC’s list of symptoms.
Spector’s speculation comes from data collected by the ZOE COVID Symptom Study in the UK, which encourages Britons to report for themselves what they experience during an infection. Spector told USA Today last week that “COVID tongue,” in which the tongues of patients with coronavirus swell inexplicably, is one of the rarest symptoms he has observed, “affecting less than 1 in 100 people.” he estimated.