A traumatic brain injury (click here) is brain dysfunction caused by an outside source. Very simply: damage occurs to the brain, and the brain doesn’t function normally after that.
We refer to a brain injury caused by an outside source as an acquired brain injury, meaning it happens after birth. To be clear, there are other scenarios that can result in brain damage that don’t come from an outside source. A non-acquired brain injury is a brain injury caused by genetic or hereditary factors, birth trauma, or from a degenerative cause, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease.
Causes can include:
Sports
MVA
Falls
Falls
As well as:
Stroke
Chemo
Virus
Aneurysm
Carbon monoxide poisoning...
Basically, anything that changes the structure, biochemistry and function of the brain is a traumatic brain injury. That includes the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In stating there is a changing nature of COVID-19 opens up the idea these NEW discoveries have resulted by a mutation. That is not the case. These symptoms are not so much changing as a discovery. This is new information about the same virus that is causing so many deaths.
The facts are plain, COVID-19 is a coronavirus that has acted as many others have, except, it is much larger than other viruses within that description. It is due to the increased size of SARS-CoV-2 and the trauma to the body's tissue that has resulted in a mind altering and deadly reality.
November 9, 2020
By Robert Yolken
...The changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic (click here) presents a moving target for clinicians, investigators, readers of medical literature, and the general public. Infection rates in different areas are frequently changing. Additionally, new cases, clinical data, and analytic functionalities are being added to available databases. Conclusions based on any one dataset thus require frequent re-examination and re-interpretation. The recent retraction of articles on COVID-19 based on another database highlights the necessity of data sharing and transparency.
More than 100 years have passed since the worldwide influenza pandemic that resulted in a markedly increased rate of neurological and psychiatric sequelae. Despite great advances in medical science, we are faced with some of the same issues relating to the characterisation of a rapidly changing pandemic occurring in different geopolitical environments. Learning to use new tools, such as electronic medical records efficiently should provide some of the essential information needed to understand and control the psychiatric consequences of this pandemic and plan for future ones. In these efforts, we should keep in mind the words of Sir William Osler that, “the best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”...
COVID-19 is not only a dangerous virus that drastically shortens longevity, it creates it's own comorbidities.
One of the stipulations to people in educating about SARS-CoV-2 is that if people have comorbidities they have to be extra careful in being exposed to the virus. Here and in other medical findings, it i obvious the virus is not only a struggle for healthy people, it also creates it's own comorbiditites through the course of the disease through the body's immune reaction.
These ACQUIRED comorbidities during the course of the disease may explain why young people are not doing as well as expected and result in deaths even after discharge from the hospital. Heart damage can be a silent killer.
