Even After Respiratory Symptoms Fade, COVID-19 Patients Face Another Danger

Even After Respiratory Symptoms Fade, COVID-19 Patients Face Another Danger
A firefighter with Anne Arundel County Fire Department takes the blood pressure of a suspected COVID-19 patient as he is transported to the hospital, in Glen Burnie, Md., on May 3, 2020. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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Doctors treating CCP virus patients are starting to notice blood clotting after respiratory symptoms and other signs of the illness fade away.

“There’s something about this virus that’s exaggerated that to the nth degree,” said Mitchell Levy, chief of pulmonary critical care at the Warren Albert School of Medicine, according to Bloomberg. “We’re seeing clotting in a way in this illness that we have not seen in the past.”
Jack Phillips
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