According to CNN, the novel coronavirus appears to cause strokes in young and middle-aged patients with no underlying conditions. Many patients were unaware they were infected.
The strokes are cause by a link between coronavirus and blood-clotting, which CNN reported on Wednesday April 22.
Dr. Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, gave details of five people they treated. All five were under the age of 50 and had either mild symptoms of coronavirus infection or no symptoms at all, according to CNN.
"The virus seems to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to severe stroke," Oxley told CNN.
"Our report shows a seven-fold increase in incidence of sudden stroke in young patients during the past two weeks. Most of these patients have no past medical history and were at home with either mild symptoms (or in two cases, no symptoms) of Covid," he said.
The Washington Post reports the coronavirus, once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, has turned out to impact nearly every major organ system in the body.
Coronavirus patients are mostly experiencing the deadliest type of stroke. They can damage large parts of the brain responsible for movement, speech and decision-making in one blow because they are in the main blood-supplying arteries, according to the Washington Post.
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