Covid-19 coronavirus: healthy young people dying from virus-related strokes

The youth, with mild or no symptoms of Covid-19, are dying of the virus-related strokes, the doctors warned.

Covid-19 appears to be the cause of sudden strokes in adults between the ages of 30 and 40, who are otherwise healthy, experts say.

Doctors in the US USA They also warned that some of those affected have been reluctant to call 911 because they know that hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus cases.

The new coronavirus appears to cause blood to clot in unusual ways, leading to strokes.

“The virus appears to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to a severe stroke,” Dr. Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, told CNN.

He says the cases appear in people under the age of 50, with mild Covid-19 symptoms or, in some cases, without symptoms.

“Our report shows a seven-fold increase in the incidence of sudden stroke in young patients in the past two weeks. Most of these patients have no medical history and were at home with mild symptoms (or in two cases, no symptoms). from Covid, “he added.

“They all tested positive. Two of them were slow to call an ambulance.”

Doctors stress that strokes are not common in young people.

“In comparison, our service has treated an average of 0.73 patients every two weeks under the age of 50 with large vessel stroke in the past 12 months,” the team wrote in a letter to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“The average person with a stroke is severely affected,” said Oxley.

“It means it’s a bigger clot. It includes one of the brain’s largest arteries.”

Doctors warn people to watch for Covid-19 symptoms and strokes.

• Covid19.govt.nz – The official government Covid-19 advisory website