Doctors in B.C. and across the globe are trying to understand why some people who require critical hospital treatment for COVID-19 are left with serious long-term side effects after they recover.
Studies, mostly involving the early cases of people who survived serious cases in China, are pointing to COVID-19 sometimes causing blood clots or lingering damage to lungs, kidneys, heart, liver, brain or nervous system of people.
The majority of people who catch COVID-19 experience mild symptoms and recover without problems. But B.C. is also experiencing the same types of complications reported elsewhere in the world for critical patients who end up in a hospital intensive care unit but eventually recover from the disease, said Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial public health officer.
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