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  No one knows why Covid-19 patients’ symptoms keep relapsing

  Posted by Nigel Brown on 4 June 2020 at 7:32 pm

  More than a month after she first fell ill with Covid 19, a lady sprayed perfume around her bedroom to test her senses. She couldn’t smell anything after losing her sense of smell when becoming infected.

  The next morning, She woke up and noticed a “faintly fragrant” scent; her symptoms were finally subsiding. She had more energy for household tasks, phone calls with friends, and remote work.

  “I felt a massive wave of encouragement zap me back to life,” the 32 year old lady reported. Then, five days later, fever, shortness of breath, and crippling gastrointestinal issues suddenly returned. “This has been the pattern, on-and-off, ever since.” Now, more than two months after she first fell ill, She still has symptoms.

  Doctors and research scientists aren’t sure whether potential relapses mean patients are still infectious — and whether the recurrent symptoms are from other infections, viral reactivation, chronic post-viral conditions, or the virus simply taking its normal course.

  For patients who think they’ve recovered from Covid-19, symptom relapses can be emotionally, physically, and financially devastating.

  This explains why there is a vast gulf between infected numbers and recoveries when figures are released by governments around the world. In many cases the recovery is not 2 weeks as stated by the WHO, but can last months with relapses in between the start of the infection and the final recovery.

  

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