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>>> SO
>>> SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 AND
SURVIVED, BUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
I CHECKED WITH A LOCAL DOCTOR
TO SEE IF PREVIOUS CORONAVIRUS
PATIENTS HAVE ANY LONG-TERM
EFFECTS.
EFFECTS.
EFFECTS. DR. DAN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING
US TODAY FOR "GREAT DAY
WASHINGTON.".
WASHINGTON.". >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
>> I THINK SO MANY OF US
THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE
PANDEMIC WERE TRYING TO WRAP
OUR MINDS AROUND, OKAY, WHAT DO
WE NEED TO BE DOING RIGHT NOW?
THINKING OF THE LONG-TERM
EFFECTS HAS BEEN EVEN HARDER.
YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT.
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING LONG-TERM
WITH COVID-19?
WITH COVID-19? >> I THINK THE CONCERNS ARE
THAT WE ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW
EVERYTHING ABOUT COVID.
WE ARE STILL LEARNING.
IT IS KEEPING US HUMBLE.
ANYBODY WHO SAYS THEY ACTUALLY
KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS PARTLY
DECEIVING YOU.
DECEIVING YOU. WE HAVE TO BE REAL WITH EACH
OTHER ON THESE THINGS.
AND TO SAY THAT WE HAVE A
CRYSTAL BALL AND KNOW WHAT'S
GOING TO HAPPEN IS PROBABLY NOT
TRUE.
TRUE.
TRUE. HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE SOME
EVIDENCE OF SOME THINGS WE HAVE
BEEN SEEING, THERE HAVE BEEN
ANECDOTAL REPORTS AND SOME
CASES OF PATIENTS WHO EVEN
AFTER TWO MONTHS OF COVID
INFECTION STILL HAVE SYMPTOMS,
VARIOUS SYMPTOMS, RANGING FROM
CHRONIC FATIGUE TO HEADACHE,
FOGGINESS IN THOUGHTS, EVEN
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS,
NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS, CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOMS,
CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOMS, DEPENDING ON THE HEART AND
LUNGS, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHICH
ORGAN SYSTEM.
ORGAN SYSTEM. WE ACTUALLY REALLY THINK THAT
MAYBE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE
UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS
WOULD PROBABLY BE THE ONES WHO
WOULD HAVE SOME CHRONIC ISSUES,
BUT THEY ARE FINDING ACTUALLY
YOUNG AND OLDER PATIENTS, IT
DOES NOT MATTER WHAT AGE YOU
ARE, AND IT DOES NOT MATTER IF
YOU HAD PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL
CONDITIONS OR CHRONIC MEDICAL
CONDITIONS, THEY STILL HAVE
SOME OF THESE FINDINGS WHICH WE
REALLY CAN'T EXPLAIN AND ONLY
TIME WILL TELL.
>> WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF
PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE ANY OF
THE SYMPTOMS YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT?
ABOUT?
ABOUT? THEY ARE ASYMPTOMATIC.
ARE YOU SEEING THESE LONG-TERM
EFFECTS WITH THEM, TOO?
>> WE HAVE NOT DOCUMENTED
ANYTHING IN REGARDS TO A TO
MANIC PATIENTS HAVING THESE
KINDS OF SYMPTOMS, BECAUSE IF
THEY ARE ASYMPTOMATIC, THEY
DON'T KNOW.
DON'T KNOW. WE WILL LEARN AND THEY WILL BE
SMARTER A YEAR FROM NOW,
SEVERAL MONTHS FROM NOW,
SEVERAL YEARS FROM NOW.
IT IS A DYNAMIC INFLUX WITH ANY
OF THESE PANDEMICS OR DISASTERS
THAT DO TAKE A TOLL ON THE
PUBLIC HEALTH AND START TO
ERODE THE PUBLIC HEALTH
SECURITY.
SECURITY.
SECURITY. THERE ARE HOWEVER ASYMPTOMATIC
PATIENTS WHO IN STUDIES WERE
DONE, IN CHINA, THAT WAS
ACTUALLY REPORTED I BELIEVE IN
SCIENCE.
SCIENCE.
SCIENCE. THAT ACTUALLY LOOKED AT
ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS, AND THEY
ACTUALLY FOUND PATIENTS THAT
WERE CLOSE CONTACTS THAT THEY
TRIED TO QUARANTINE AND
ISOLATE.
ISOLATE.
ISOLATE. THEY FOUND THAT THEY DID NOT
REPORT ANY SYMPTOMS ACTUALLY
AND IN THE COHORT OF PATIENTS
THAT DID NOT HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS,
NO FEVER, THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY
SYMPTOMS, AT LEAST WITHIN THOSE
14 DAYS OF WHEN THEY WERE
TESTED, CAME BACK POSITIVE.
THAT WAS OVERWHELMINGLY 50% TO
60% OF THEM DEPENDING ON WHICH
STUDY YOU LOOK AT.
THAT MEANS THERE IS
ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD.
ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD. OKAY, SO NOW WE HAVE THAT
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. THEN YOU TAKE THOSE PATIENTS
AND MONITOR THEM, IN ADDITION
TO TESTING THEM AND MAKING SURE
THEY ARE TRULY POSITIVE, YOU
MONITOR THEM AND CHECK SOME LAB
VALUES AND DO SOME X-RAYS AND
RADIOLOGICAL FINDINGS.
RADIOLOGICAL FINDINGS. SO THESE ARE CT SCANS.
AND THEY ACTUALLY LOOKED AT THE
CT SCANS OF THE SUBSET OF THESE
PATIENTS WHO ACTUALLY REPORTED
THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY
SYMPTOMS, ABOUT 20% OF THE
STUDY THAT HAD 2,000 PATIENTS
IN IT.
IN IT.
IN IT. I'VE NARROWED IT DOWN TO ABOUT
200 PLUS PATIENTS WHO MET THE
CRITERIA.
CRITERIA.
CRITERIA. OUT OF THAT, 20% OF THEM, A
LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT, SAID
THAT THEY ACTUALLY FOUND LONG
FINDINGS.
FINDINGS.
FINDINGS. AND IN THOSE PATIENTS THAT YOU
DID FIND ACTUAL LONG FINDINGS
ABOUT TWO-THIRDS HAD SOME
FINDINGS IN THE LONG FOR WHAT
THEY CALLED GROUNDGLASS
OPACITIES.
OPACITIES. A FANCY MEDICAL TERM. THERE
MIGHT BE SOME EVIDENCE OF VIRAL
INFORMATION, AN INFECTION OF
THE LONG, BUT IT IS SUBTLE.
WE ARE NOW SEEING THAT IN THIS
AGE OR, IN ASYMPTOMATIC
PATIENTS WHO RANGE ANYWHERE
FROM H 8 TO AGE 70. THE AVERAGE
AGE WAS ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD.
SO THAT GOES TO SHOW, OR AT
LEAST BEGS THE QUESTION, THAT
WE DON'T REALLY KNOW EVERYTHING
ABOUT COVID, BUT FOR PEOPLE
THAT ARE ASYMPTOMATIC AND WERE
TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID AND
MAY HAVE HAD THE ILLNESS, THEY
THINK THEY ARE SAFE FOR PEOPLE
WHO WEREN'T WEARING MASKS,
DOING ALL THE OTHER THINGS,
HANDWASHING, AND THINK THEY ARE
ACTUALLY SAFE, YOU MIGHT WANT
TO THINK ABOUT THAT. IT IS
ACTUALLY SCARY BUT YOU MIGHT