Experts warned: “Covid-19 may have affected our organs”

The Covid-19 pandemic that gripped the world has ended, but its effects on those who have been infected continue to be debated by the scientific community. Experts said the coronavirus can cause much more than a simple respiratory illness and can affect organs in the body.

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on those who have the disease continue to be debated by the scientific world. Overseeing many Covid-19 studies

Cardiologist Dr. Adrian Hernandez, director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina, USA, said more than 200 symptoms have been linked to long Covid. “We see people showing symptoms almost from head to toe in terms of how they feel, how they function and what they can do,” Dr. Hernandez said. “While the short-term effects of Covid-19 can be flu-like, even mild cases can lead to prolonged Covid that can last for weeks or months,” Dr. Hernandez said.

Dr. Nisha Viswanathan, director of the long Covid program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California, USA, made a striking observation, “I would argue that Covid-19 is not a lung disease. The most likely is a vascular and neurological infection that affects both nerve endings and our cardiovascular system.”

Erdal Can Alkoçlar, Member of the Board of Directors of Mas Pharmaceuticals, drew attention to the effects of Covid-19 on the brain and nervous system, “Many patients described it as feeling like they had a concussion and said that this continued for several months after Covid. In addition to cognitive impairment, we also saw worsening or new onset migraines. We are seeing new neuropathies in the legs and arms - numbness, tingling, difficulty walking due to neuropathy.”

Alkoçlar said Covid-19 could also reveal other neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, emphasizing that new cases of Alzheimer's disease have been diagnosed in people who functioned well before the disease but later developed symptoms.