Although COVID-19 a result of the coronavirus infection has a tendency to pass speedily for most, some people suffer from long-term issues. If the consequences are ongoing for more than several weeks to months after the initial infection, this can be given the term of ‘long covid’. This is a quite recent phenomenon and more is being rapidly discovered and research in regards to the problem as the COVID-19 outbreak proceeds. It’s been thought that approximately one out of seven people who have initial symptoms from Covid-19 are still unwell for around a month with around 1 in 50 still experiencing difficulity after three months. In that early or acute phase with the illness, the more critical forms of COVID-19 could cause such things as pneumonia and respiratory system collapse, which can result in long lasting damage as well as scarring damage in the lungs. More importantly it can increase the chance for blood clotting that can then lead to problems such as deep vein thrombosis, heart attacks and stroke. In some it can cause heart muscle inflammation and heart rhythm perturbations, like atrial fibrillation. A lot of these forms of complications aren’t exclusive to COVID-19 and can also take […] read more