Jack Candlestick:

Doctors at one large UK hospital say a significant proportion of their patients with COVID-19 also develop a nerve condition called "axonal mononeuritis multiplex," with severe pain, loss of sensation, numbness in the fingers and toes, mental confusion mimicking dementia, and movement problems confined to isolated regions on their limbs. Of 269 patients with severe COVID-19 who were discharged from the ICU after spending an average of a month on mechanical ventilators, 61 (22%) had axonal mononeuritis multiplex.... "our experience suggests that such deficits are common and frequently disabling in patients recovering from COVID-19," they wrote in a paper posted on Wednesday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. "Given that this complication is evident in a significant proportion of the patients...the rehabilitation burden globally will be substantial," they said.