You are already neurologically compromised and you don't want your doctor to have to distinguish between the two. Be careful out there. It would be good to not have a stroke right now.
Neurologic Manifestations in Notable Proportion of Hospitalised Patients with COVID-19
Neurologic symptoms manifest in a large proportion of hospitalised patients with COVID-19, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology.“During
the epidemic period of COVID-19, when seeing patients with neurologic
manifestations, clinicians should suspect severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 infection as a differential diagnosis to avoid
delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis and lose the chance to treat and
prevent further transmission,” said Bo Hu, MD, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and colleagues.
Data were collected from January 16, 2020, to February 19, 2020, at 3 COVID-19 care centres in Wuhan from electronic medical records, and neurologic symptoms were checked by 2 neurologists. The study included 214 consecutive hospitalised patients with laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. The patients’ mean age was 53 years and 41% were male.
Overall, 36.4% of the patients had neurologic manifestations, and 45.5% of patients with severe infection had neurologic manifestations. Patients with severe infection were older, had more underlying disorders and showed fewer typical symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever and cough, when compared with patients with nonsevere infection. The respective rates of neurologic manifestations in patients with more severe infection and those with nonsevere infection were 5.7% and 0.8% for acute cerebrovascular diseases, 14.8% and 2.4% for impaired consciousness, and 19.3% and 4.8% for skeletal muscle injury.
Reference: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2764549?guestAccessKey=4acaca6e-7090-4008-acf2-54ded1321cfe&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=041020
Data were collected from January 16, 2020, to February 19, 2020, at 3 COVID-19 care centres in Wuhan from electronic medical records, and neurologic symptoms were checked by 2 neurologists. The study included 214 consecutive hospitalised patients with laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. The patients’ mean age was 53 years and 41% were male.
Overall, 36.4% of the patients had neurologic manifestations, and 45.5% of patients with severe infection had neurologic manifestations. Patients with severe infection were older, had more underlying disorders and showed fewer typical symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever and cough, when compared with patients with nonsevere infection. The respective rates of neurologic manifestations in patients with more severe infection and those with nonsevere infection were 5.7% and 0.8% for acute cerebrovascular diseases, 14.8% and 2.4% for impaired consciousness, and 19.3% and 4.8% for skeletal muscle injury.
Reference: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2764549?guestAccessKey=4acaca6e-7090-4008-acf2-54ded1321cfe&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=041020
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