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<\/div>Scientists and healthcare workers are still trying to make sense of the many symptoms of COVID-19.<\/p>
From extensive lung<\/a> and blood vessel<\/a> damage to the loss of smell and taste<\/a> and even strange discoloration of toes<\/a>, questions linger about the deadly virus currently sweeping the globe.<\/p> Now, doctors are noticing mysterious blood clots in COVID-19 patients that may be causing extremely low oxygen levels — so low that they should be unconscious or even dead — but still acting normally, according to The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p> The strange clots have even prompted some doctors have suggested giving blood thinners to all COVID patients, including the ones not sick enough to be hospitalized.<\/p> Autopsies showed that patients’ lungs were filled with hundreds of tiny clots or microclots rather than one large hemorrhage that could’ve caused a stroke or heart attack.<\/p> “The problem we are having is that while we understand that there is a clot, we don’t yet understand why there is a clot,” Lewis Kaplan, a University of Pennsylvania physician, told the Post<\/em>. “We don’t know. And therefore, we are scared.”<\/p> Researchers are now investigating whether these microclots could play a role in deaths across the country.<\/p> But first, they are trying to understand what is causing them in the first place.<\/p> “One of the theories is that once the body is so engaged in a fight against an invader, the body starts consuming the clotting factors, which can result in either blood clots or bleeding,” Kaplan told the Post<\/em>.<\/p> The post COVID Patients Are Getting Mysterious and Deadly Blood Clots<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Original post: Scientists and healthcare workers are\u00a0still trying to make sense of the many symptoms of COVID-19. From extensive lung and blood vessel damage to\u00a0the loss of smell and taste and even strange discoloration of toes , questions linger about the deadly virus currently sweeping the globe. Now, doctors are noticing mysterious blood clots in COVID-19 patients that may be causing extremely low oxygen levels \u2014 so low that they should be unconscious or even dead \u2014 but still acting normally, according to The Washington Post . Continue reading
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