By Jamie Talan
March 27, 2020
?They don’t stop coming—patients in Italy with respiratory problems that make it so hard to catch a breath that they brave the streets in this city in the Lombardia region to get to the emergency room at University of Brescia. This is no time for patients with chronic diseases in Italy, who are often told to stay home.
Many of the beds are filled with patients testing positive for COVID-19 or they have the symptoms that make testing seem senseless. They are fighting the disease, and many are losing it. With more than 80,000 positive cases in Italy as of late March, and approximately 8,000 deaths, neurologists on the front lines of this pandemic are noticing a set of worrisome symptoms that may be a sign that the virus doesn’t discriminate to the lungs or the heart but is leading to a number of neurological disorders that no one was suspecting.
A Neuro-COVID-19 Unit
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