By now, most people are familiar with the respiratory hallmarks of the COVID-19 disease that has infected more than 2.2 million people around the world. But more unusual signs are surfacing in new reports from the front lines. coronavirus
ICU. A COVID-19 coronavirus patient lies in bed at the Intensive Care Unit of the Povisa Hospital in Vigo, northwestern Spain, on April 16, 2020. Photo by Miguel Riopa/AFP
Jennifer Frontera, a neurologist at NYU Langone Brooklyn hospital seeing these patients, told AFP the findings were raising concerns about the impact of the coronavirus on the brain and nervous system. "You've been hearing that this is a breathing problem, but it also affects what we most care about, the brain," S Andrew Josephson, chair of the neurology department at the University of California, San Francisco told AFP.
Viruses affect the brain in one of two main ways, explained Michel Toledano, a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. This remains unproven – and the theory is somewhat undermined by the fact that many patients experiencing anosmia don't go on to have severe neurological symptoms.
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