Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19

Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by irjustin on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:14AM (#23767656)

Not saying it's "not neurological" it's more about first order vs second order effects.

Loss of taste and smell are most likely first order effect - a direct result of COVID. You can't avoid this w/o avoiding

My guess (just a guess) for the article is the brain damage is a result of uncontrolled fevers - a second order effect. So if you control the fever, you can avoid the serious brain damage.

To that end, let's not be like OH NO BRAIN DAMAGE COVID screams. That's just not intelligent.

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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by danaris on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:05AM (#23769968)

I've seen a number of different studies that indicate that there's more going on than just fever that causes the brain and systemic damage.

I'm not enough of a biologist to understand it very well, but I believe what they were saying was that once the virus damages the lining of the lungs, it then uses that to get into the bloodstream, where, if you're unlucky, it starts damaging your blood vessels. All of them.

This would then explain both the higher incidence of brain inflammation, strokes, etc, in adults, and the COVID-related inflammatory syndrome in otherwise asymptomatic children. Or so the articles I was reading claimed. (Apologies for lack of sourcing; I didn't think to save links.)

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