Something fishy about Covid-19

Reuters reported on July 8 that neuroscientists and specialist brain doctors say emerging evidence of Covid-19’s impact on the brain is concerning.

A study by researchers at University College London described 43 cases of patients with Covid-19 who suffered either temporary brain dysfunction, strokes, nerve damage or other serious brain effects.

Some scientists have put pressure on the World Health Organisation to reclassify Covid-19 as an airborne disease. If it is, does it mean our lives should come to a standstill? What are the implications of this suggestion?

In June the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced additional Covid-19 symptoms. The statement read thus: “As research on Covid-19 progresses and more information comes to light, the [CDC] updates the public on details such as symptoms of the virus. The public has been made aware of several symptoms identified in relation to Covid-19, such as a fever and shortness of breath. Now, the CDC has added three more possible symptoms: congestion/runny nose, nausea, and diarrhea.”

Does this mean when it announced the “new” disease these symptoms did not manifest themselves or it forgot to include them? I have the naive notion that it should have initially revealed a complete package of the symptoms not piecemeal.

We were told this disease broke out in China last year. They must have announced at that time everything they observed about the disease including its symptoms and route of transmission not to add other aspects of the disease almost a year after its outbreak. When they keep on adding to their laundry list issues such as symptoms and route of transmission then it gives the impression that there are quite a few things that do not add up in this Covid-19 disease.

Sam Ditshego, Kagiso