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A recent study out of Italy found that 10 percent of those who lost their smell and taste due to COVID-19 saw their symptoms worsen or stay the same over the course of the infection.The remaining 90 percent who lost their sense of smell or taste while infected with coronavirus saw their condition improve or they recovered within a…

An increasing number of U.S. covid-19 patients are surviving after they are placed on mechanical ventilators, a last-resort measure that was perceived as a signal of impending death during the terrifying early days of the pandemic.Early reports out of Wuhan, China, and Italy cemented the impression that the vast majority of patients who required the…

The study was conducted by Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center’s pulmonary institute and based on preliminary data gathered from dozens of patients who suffered from COVID-19. Shaare Zedek Medical team receive a patient with suspension on coronavirus, outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 16, 2020. (photo credit: NATI SHOHAT/FLASH90)…

Major medical centers nationwide trying to understand why some COVID-19 patients continue to have symptoms weeks and even months after having been diagnosed with the coronavirus.Amy Watson, 47, is one of those patients. She's had a fever, she said, for more than 100 days.Amy Watson.Marc Leonard"It's been maddening," said Watson, a preschool teacher in Portland,…

A new study suggests that COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (ICU) are more likely to suffer from cardiac arrests or arrhythmias caused by systemic issues.Share on PinterestResearch suggests that systemic inflammation in response to severe cases of COVID-19 may be responsible for heart attacks and arrhythmias. New research found that COVID-19 patients in ICU…