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Multiple Strange and New symptoms after Covid

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Apr 1 5:53pm | Replies (54)
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@celia16

I’m trying to understand SARS2 as it relates to covid. Is it the same thing? My dad tested positive for SARS2 last week with lab test. I took him to his primary due to cough that sounded like pneumonia (it wasn’t). He got it from my mom, who is now almost recovered. She tested negative yesterday on at home test. I have no symptoms (except for my normal post Covid symptoms) and have tested negative twice last week. My dad is 86.

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jmac84 | @jmac84 | Mar 16 10:18am

SARS stand for sudden acute respiratory syndrome…its the more severe form of the covid -19 virus which attacks the respiratory/pulmonary tissues inside the lungs and can also cause organ failure in severe cases. Not everyone will experience this severe reaction/infection.

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CropDoc | @cropdoc | Mar 16 6:02pm

Sars CoV-2 is the 2nd Sars corona virus which causes Covid 19 and for some. Long Covid. SARS was the first which had a much higher death rate (over 10%) and only occured in China. MERS was another corona virus very close to SARS and Sars CoV-2 which only occured in the Middle East. Together, these are like triplets of the Corona Virus Family. MERS also had a high desth rate over 10%.

The names follow this scientific method: a pathogen (a virus or bacteria or fungus most of the time) causes a "disease" or syndrome. In this case, Sars CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2, causes the named disease "COVID-19".

One is infected by the virus and the symptoms caused are the diease which is called COVID-19. The after effects of the damage from the virus to the body are what causes Long Covid.

You should take your dad to the ER. He may need steriods to reduce inflamation in his lungs, antibiotics such as a ZPack to prevent pneumonia, and fluids to prevent dehydration which is a major issue with older people.

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