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15 minutes On the consequences of COVID-19 – not only physical, but also psychological – he spoke with four doctors from the Kaunas Clinics of the Health Sciences Hospital of the University of Lithuania – COVID-19 Head of the Second Department dr. Neringa Vaguliene, Head of the Laboratory Medicine Clinic prof. Astra Vitkauskiene, Head of the Rehabilitation Clinic prof. Raimondas Kubilius and the head of the Anesthesiology Clinic prof. Dr. Andriumi Macu.
Even without feeling the symptoms, the body is sick.
In Lithuania, COVID-19 has already infected more than 180 thousand people. people, more than 130 thousand. considered healthy.
The media, various institutions have been publishing information about this disease for good years, but still something new constantly appears.
It still seems difficult to define it concisely and precisely.
“It just came to our knowledge then. We know its cause, we have a better understanding of the mechanisms of development of the disease, but the clinical manifestation is very different, said A. Macas. – Although we know that disorders of the respiratory system predominate, and To a lesser extent, the damage to the digestive system, we can already see that other systems of our body can also be damaged. Even the duration of the disease is a very short illness of one or two days for a person and a serious illness of 17 to 20 days for others. “
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Here in December, COVID-19 took the life of just one 27-year-old boy: it was the youngest victim of the disease.
According to the doctors, this patient was not only young, but also did not have concomitant pathologies, without seeking medical help before.
According to the professor, the course of the disease will be mild, moderate or severe, it is determined by many factors.
These include not only age, comorbidities, and their severity, but also a person’s physical condition, overweight, immune system, and even genetic characteristics.
“Here is the answer to why even a healthy person can become seriously ill,” summarized the interviewee.
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