New COVID symptom

My comment about it affecting the youth being rare was sarcasm because they feel invulnerable, and the pandemic is proving them wrong.


The point of my article was this bizarre series of symptoms in an otherwise healthy person (of any age). Did you bother to read it?


There will always be rare and unique situations that are unlike the "majority" of cases, but when I read what this kid went through, I don't recall ever reading about it happening before. Thus it's a "new COVID symptom" that we can add to our watch list that may pop up again.

I read about it and post about it because there are still people who think COVID is either a hoax, or just a simple flu, when actually it's mutating and we're learning more and more about it every day.  Just when we think we know what to look for, people present with new and different symptoms.

That's going to happen with any disease, and I understand that.  However, I post these as they unfold and as new developments occur.  It's not just educational but I think it's important to be informed as new symptoms evolve.  Enough of them happen and they no longer are a "rare" occurrence.

These kids I write about aren't "getting sick" - they're getting COVID and almost dying , having organ failure, being some are being put into induced comas, and presenting with a growing host of new symptoms not seen before as this continues to mutate and get more dangerous and more contagious.

I have a hard time understanding why people think it's a hoax or not that big a deal, or some sort of mass hysteria.  All one has to do is turn on the news, and see how many people are getting seriously ill and dying.  We're fortunate that most people recover, but that doesn't mean we can ignore the people who've been forced to be on ventilators or put into induced comas, or affected for weeks, being violently ill.

I worry for the elderly, and the people who are at risk, those with compromised immune systems, and I worry about our frontline workers, the medical staff who are faced with being in that environment day after day after day, many of them dying as a result.  And they're healthy individuals.

I still see the younger people feeling untouchable, like they're so healthy, they're invulnerable.  Yet every single day in the news I see teens and people into their 30's (with no underlying health conditions) who are dying.  I see a lack of compassion perhaps.