But as the pandemic has ground on, doctors say, they’ve found it increasingly difficult to rule anyone out as a possible COVID carrier. “We’re just seeing so many strange presentations of this that basically we’re in a state where almost anybody coming in with anything is a potential COVID case,” said Dr. Brett Belchetz, who practises emergency medicine in Toronto.
For hospitals dealing with limited protective equipment and long backlogs for testing, that’s a problem. It means there’s no easy way to triage patients, conserve supplies or give medical staff a mental break. “We’re taking precautions with everybody now,” Belchetz said. “We’re treating every single patient as a potential COVID patient.”
The range of possible COVID symptoms has already expanded dramatically from the early days of the pandemic. One colleague told Belchetz about a patient who came in with a head laceration. “Everyone assumed it was nothing to worry about,” he said. Head wounds are bread and butter stuff in the ER. But after some detailed questioning, the patient revealed how he got the cut: He had passed out and fallen. He didn’t have a cough or a fever. But he wasn’t getting enough oxygen. He got swabbed. The test came back. He had COVID-19. […]
For Miller, the stakes of this situation didn’t fully set in until he saw his first atypical presentation of the disease. In the early weeks of the pandemic, a woman with an erratic heartbeat came in to his ER. She had a history of what’s known as atrial fibrillation. And her heart was beating wildly, at almost twice the normal rate.
Miller and his colleagues focused on that; they wanted to get her heart rate under control. “A few hours later she spiked a fever and then we realized, ‘Oh gosh, there’s more to this story than just atrial fibrillation,” he said. They sent her for a swab. She had COVID-19.
Emphasis mine.
Related — As seen dropping in the streets in Wuhan: The new health struggle for COVID-19 patients: Heart failure (link fixed!)
ABC link disappeared/not available
It states that COVID 19 could be infecting heart muscle, which is an alternate explanation for the heart problems (alternate to ‘bad blood’),
A disease of a thousand faces, which is what Lupus is also described as. Perhaps that explains why hydrochloroquine has been showing some promise in treating it. Maybe this virus is more related to Lupus or is a crossbreed of such with coronavirus. Just a thought for argument.
It’s not showing promise beyond a few small flawed quasi-pilot studies.
False. And what would motivate such a comment in the first place? Ohhhh yeahhhh … “Orange Man Bad”. Thanks for furthering the meme which will guarantee Trump’s re-election. The 2020 version of “deplorable”
Here is the ABC link, assuming it works for me;
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/health-struggle-covid-19-patients-heart-failure/story?id=70002186
As more data comes in from China and Italy
Stopped reading.
… because capitalist US medicine is 2nd best … err about 125th best … according to the leftist “Dreamers”
Guess what can explain why clinical medical staff treating seriously ill Corvid-19 patients are also getting seriously ill and dying, at an alarming rate? The dose or viral load they are exposed to. Higher doses related to worse symptoms, as was the case with SARS and MERS.
National Post video- Could viral load affect COVID-19 symptoms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmzcf5Z84kQ
It’s almost like the virus was designed to do this.
It’s probably nothing.
Malaria is a blood parasite,maybe why it was tried and showed some success
The CONTENT of the original post (taken down by the geniuses at ‘Medium’) … “sounded” authentic and logical. The “delivery” ? Not so much. However, it’s been a constant in my near-65 years of life that things with “the ring of truth” to them (because of the evidence and logic provided) … are usually always true. And the opposite is true as well.
I am not surprised this information about the harmful effects of the virus are being revealed by more and more Doctors on the frontlines of treatment. This information is actually making me more conscious of staying clear of this nifty little killer. I worry about multiple organ failure due to oxygen deprivation.
Kenji,
A little trivia I picked up somewhere… When the person become aware of a problem Heart/Kidney Etc
they have already lost 70% of the organ’s functionality,,, When you doctor asks you what’s wrong and you tell him, he knows you are in deep shit….
Why is Biden insisting that Generals lead task force procurement….The chain of command is NOT the expert class, Trump has Authorized the real experts (one level down) to commit $$$$ The whole system is on steroids….
Search me?
Except … it’s typical of political snipers to insist THEY have a better idea than Pres. Trump. I watched … with my mouth hanging open … when Mark Cuban said HE would have organized the Stimulus Relief differently than PDJT. Cuban said that he’d have simply extended an unlimited amount of debt (no overdrafts, no borrowing limits) to individuals and businesses! My FIRST thought?! Did Cuban learn NOTHING from the “Free Mortgages for every unqualified over-leveraged American” policy that BLEW UP in 2008?! It would take about 4-weeks for the NEW DEBT to pass $8T.
Armchair Political sniper know-it-all’s rarely have “better” ideas. Monday morning quarterbacks are a tiresome lot … but the office was always filled with em.
I’m just surprised that … SHE … hasn’t yet issued HER plan … on some kind of a speaking tour (VIP seats only $2,500/ea!)