Doctors are now reporting cases where the coronavirus (COVID-19) may be causing blood clots and consequently, strokes in a small number of people in their 30s and 40s.
These young and middle-aged patients, some who did not know they had COVID-19, were “not otherwise terribly ill,” CNN reports. “The virus seems to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to severe stroke,” Dr.
Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, told CNN. “Our report shows a seven-fold increase in incidence of sudden stroke in young patients during the past two weeks.
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