Jan. 15, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| China's medical researchers recently concluded from a follow-up study that 76% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients still have lingering symptoms such as fatigue, muscle weakness, sleep difficulties, anxiety and depression six months after contracting the disease. | |
| The clinical research was published in medical journal The Lancet on January 9th. | |
| A total of 1,733 hospitalized COVID-19 patients discharged from Wuhan's Jinyin Tan Hospital between January 7th and May 29th last year were included in the study. | |
| The average age was 57. | |
| Gender ratio was 52% male and 48% female. | |
| Around 76% of patients reported persistent symptoms. | |
| The most common lasting problem was fatigue or muscle weakness, reported by 63% of all patients. | |
| Sleep difficulties came next, reported by 26%, around 23% more female than male, reported anxiety or depression. | |
| The researchers also believe that recovered patients risk being infected again. | |
| Wuhan resident Ms. | |
| Zhang and her husband both contracted the CCP virus in February last year. | |
| Zhang told the Epoch Times that she's still experiencing various symptoms as of today, including chest tightness, muscle aches, and insomnia. | |
| We are getting old and we don't do much physical activity. | |
| I have trouble sleeping and I have to take sleeping pills. | |
| As for my husband, he has antibodies, as shown on the medical report when he was discharged from the hospital. | |
| I don't have antibodies. | |
| Actually, when I was admitted to the hospital, my test result was negative. | |
| I had symptoms of high fever and bad cough. | |
| My child said it must be lung problems, and he sent me to the hospital. | |
| Ms Jang's husband is a confirmed COVID-19 patient. | |
| He had a fever but had to wait over 10 days to get a hospital bed. | |
| He's still suffering from muscle aches and memory deterioration. | |
| Sean Lynn, a virology expert in Washington, D.C., pointed out that because the most prominent symptoms of COVID-19 are respiratory symptoms, most consider it a respiratory disease. | |
| However, he is not surprised at all that a variety of symptoms were reported by patients. | |
| Receptors and auxiliary receptors for this virus are present in different organs and tissues. | |
| As a result, the novel coronavirus is capable of infecting several different organs. | |
| For instance, some patients have kidney and liver damages. | |
| There are also cases of heart problems. | |
| There are people who died from multiple organ failures. | |
| All these situations exist in real life. | |
| An article published by the BBC in July last year entitled How COVID-19 Can Damage the Brain revealed that more than 300 studies from around the world have found a prevalence of neurological abnormalities in COVID-19 patients, including mild symptoms like headaches, loss of smell and tingling sensations, up to more severe outcomes such as aphasia, the inability to speak, strokes and seizures. | |
| In addition, the disease can wreak havoc on the kidneys, liver, heart, and just about every organ system in the body. | |
| The BBC report cited Julie Helms, M.D. and Ph.D., from Strasbourg University Hospital in France, who reported widespread neurological symptoms among COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit on top of breathing difficulties. | |
| They were extremely agitated and many had neurological problems, mainly confusion and delirium, Helms said, adding that some patients were very young in their thirties and forties, even an eighteen-year-old. | |
| This was completely abnormal. | |
| It has been very scary, she said. | |
| In November 2020, scientists at the University of Oxford conducted a study on a large number of COVID-19 survivors in the United States by analysing their clinical data. | |
| They found that one in five patients developed mental illness within three months. | |
| These patients had a first-time diagnosis of anxiety, depression, or insomnia, and the ratio of 1 in 5 was about twice as likely as for other groups of patients in the same period. | |
| Renowned Chinese medicine doctor Hu Neiwen, who lives in Taipei City, Taiwan, analyzed the disease from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. | |
| Traditional Chinese medicine believes that very strong medicines must be applied to treat this disease. | |
| These medicines should be warm and nourishing in nature. | |
| For instance, if it is the kidney health that needs to be restored for a particular patient, we need a strong medicine to the point that we are directing almost all of his vigor and essence to his kidney to quickly improve the condition of the kidney. | |
| Same goes true for the treatment of heart problems. | |
| We need strong medicine, warm and strong, targeting the heart. | |
| Doctor Who said, most COVID-19 patients are already very weak and need emergent treatment, otherwise the patient will be ruined. | |
| He also pointed out that presently Western medicine does not have an effective cure for the disease. | |
| The CCP virus pandemic has so far caused more than 90 million infections and nearly 2 million deaths worldwide. |
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