One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days

Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by KittenInABox on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:03AM (#25047460)

Do you have more information on gastrointestinal COVID-19? I haven't really heard this before and I'm super interested if it has different symptoms/different long term consequences. I've heard of stuff like brain fog; could that be a result?

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Re:One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness with... by sradman on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:17PM (#25048361)

> Approximately half of patients reported one or more GI symptoms; among these, diarrhea was reported most frequently (38%) and vomiting least frequently (13%). [1]

The original 2003 SARS-1 outbreak in Hong Kong infamously spread via sewage in a single building with faulty plumbing floor traps [2]. Wastewater surveillance has also been proposed and/or implemented in many jurisdictions [3].

I think poor sleep due to discomfort and/or anxiety is just as likely to cause brain fog in the short-term and mental illness over the long-term but irreversible dementia seems to require an additional explanation, in my opinion.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928a2.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoy_Gardens#SARS_outbreak

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/wast...

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