Doctor: COVID-19 May Cause Problems After Recovery | Coronavirus

Unfortunately, Dr. Nick O’Dell, Chief Medical Officer of Murray Callaway County Hospital, said this was a reasonable idea for him.

“Obviously, the more sick you are, the more likely you are to cause permanent damage,” said what this week saw MCCH during the virus’s biggest surge over the past month in Callaway County. O’Dell said he was worried. -Half. On Thursday, the county recorded the 119th incident after sitting at 47 at the end of May.

Five cases were reported on Thursday.

“We are starting to find sick people and the corresponding increase in hospitalization. Currently, there are two COVID positives confirmed in the hospital and there are three waiting for the results. This is an increase over the past few weeks when no COVID patients were hospitalized, and two patients who came to the hospital we referred to last week were sick, especially one of whom used a ventilator. I haven’t heard about that patient for a few days.”

Dr. Bob Hughes, co-founder of Murray’s Primary Care Medical Center, said his practice was explosive at a daily 2:00 pm test session in the rear car park.

“There were 25 (Tuesday) and 27 people the day before, but most of the people we see are ill. They aren’t ill enough to be hospitalized, but it’s a drive-by way. It’s not just screening tests. Nearly everyone we test is showing signs, partly due to illness and partly due to exposure,” Hughes said, COVID-19 could bring. Responded to warnings from other health care providers over the long term, if not a permanent effect.

“I see. It can cause serious damage to the lungs, but it can also cause damage to the kidneys and damage to the central nervous system. Whenever you are talking about systemic illness, it is only one area. Instead, it has the ability to affect the whole body.”

Focusing on the lungs, O’Dell explained how COVID-19 can make tremendous sacrifices while still lacking cures and prophylactic vaccines.

“You have to think about your lungs, and what happens to them as well as burns and cuts on your skin. When it heals, it heals as a scar, which scars It doesn’t work the same as the skin, you can continue your life, but it’s not that strong,” he said. “Your lungs are made up of this elastic, spongy tissue that loses its elasticity, opens and closes, and breathes normally, which limits you in the future.

“The severity of pneumonia from COVID-19 is probably the main predictor of what we call lung fibrosis or scars. It’s definitely not good. Lung scars absorb oxygen from the air. It doesn’t work properly in that respect, but it doesn’t protect itself either.The lung tubes and air pockets have small hairs that clear mucus and remove all bugs and stuff from it. In that case, those hairs will be gone, and they will also fail in terms of oxygen absorption, and also to protect against future infections.”

Hughes said he had never heard of local patients facing these types of effects. But he also said it was early in the process.

“In places like New York City, where there are more patients, we’re hearing about the residual effects of the virus,” he said, to whom many other people in his field are. But take the illness seriously, distance yourself as a major publicity precaution, wear a face mask in public, and wash your hands for up to 20 seconds.

“This is much more serious than the flu. This is far more infectious than the flu by whatever means you would like to see it, but mortality statistics are clearly higher. No, this Is not flu.”

Odell is the worst surge in the country at the moment, with the majority of the patients hospitals see, family gatherings or trips outside Callaway County, usually in remote vacation spots like Florida. He also said the hospital is seeing an increase in younger patients.

“There are still many unpredictable things about this virus. One of them is the one who struggles to die. We have certain risk factors (in the early epidemics the elderly were the main concern. Yes, and especially those with pre-existing medical conditions were the main concern), and even those are not in perfect agreement,” he said. “You see young people suffering, and you see older people have minimal symptoms.”

But Odell said he saw something that encouraged him a few days ago. At a shopping venture in Murray, he said 95% of the insiders wear masks.

“I hoped it could really bend the curve in terms of cases and expected deaths over the next month,” he said.