Covid-19 is causing a wide range of disorders in the nervous system

And we know even less about the long-term epigenetic effects. What's the effect on childhood development? Fetal development in the case of infection during pregnancy? Who knows.

Aside from a very tiny group who had strokes (again, mostly elderly), this research shows predominantly mild symptoms that (e.g. headache, insomnia), which would not be expected to persist.

If you read past the headline, you will see that even this article makes it clear that the vast majority of patients have minimal symptoms:

” Another large-scale study, this one with 909 coronavirus patients in Madrid, showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms.”

If death rates were 1/10 of what they are (which really means a less severe virus overall), there's a good chance most countries would have let it run its course.

So, just to mention to not discard that.

In fact a lot of people are experiencing several degrees of anxiety during this period.

None of us experienced this level of stress and anxiety before, the glimpse of uncertainty and the lack of control fucks our mind.

One of the triggers I had was allergy (clogged nose), and other was when I saw news of people acting irresponsibly after me doing my part and giving up a lot of things to try to contain this (I'm not from the US, I'm from the EU).

I've never had headaches like this before, both in feeling and duration.

I've been careful since the end of February. Always wearing a mask, social distancing, hand washing with soap and disinfectant wipes. I've had limited exposure to other people except delivery people, my GF, my mom. I've only been to stores 3 times since the end of February.

I knew it was just a matter of time when I saw the massive increase in numbers of infected in this county. People almost have completely stopped wearing masks or social distancing.

Luckily, the worst is already over for me. I'm getting better by the day, and it was a short illness too.

I will still use best practices after my self quarantine is over.

> nausea,headache,confusion,weakness,ataxia

I have experienced these with low oxygen saturation (I have had chronic asthma my whole life, some really bad attacks).

If it's affecting his vision also (black dots) get him checked.. it's known that scar tissue continues to exist on the lungs (similar to pneumonia survival) and will take a very long time (decades) to recover, potentially).

They only looked at male patients aged 52-74, who were bad enough to be in hospital, and who had already been given an echocardiogram because there was an indicator, i.e. it's the subgroup that doctors deemed in need of a heart check because they were exhibiting symptoms like chest pain. The study indicates prevalence of abnormalities within those echoes - echoes from very ill people with symptoms of heart failure. They didn't take echoes for the study and they didn't run echoes on a random population.

Cytokine storms and their associated effects (like clotting ,etc.) are also present with other viral infections, like with the original Spanish Flu H1N1 strain (during the infamous "second wave").

"Regular" pneumonia can severely weaken you for months or a year, even if you have antibiotics.

This virus is absolutely not a magic virus. It is novel, but it is still a coronavirus.

CFS/ME sufferers often exhibit some of the neurological symptoms mentioned in the article (though not the more extreme/terminal ones like stroke).

Lyme disease sufferers also often exhibit these kinds of symptoms to some degree, which is why, in the absence of serology evidence, it can be difficult to distinguish from CFS/ME.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome