„Diarrhea is first sign of illness for some COVID-19 patients“
„Some patients with COVID-19 experience gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly diarrhea, as the first sign of illness, according to a new study.
Among this subset of patients — who have mild disease overall — respiratory symptoms show up only later in the illness, and some never develop respiratory symptoms at all, the authors said.
The findings are important because those without classic symptoms of COVID-19 — such as cough, shortness of breath and fever — may go undiagnosed and could potentially spread the illness to others, the researchers said.
Still, they note that digestive problems are common overall and don’t necessarily mean that a person has COVID-19. But doctors should recognize that sudden digestive symptoms in people with a possible COVID-19 contact „should at least prompt consideration of the illness,“ the authors wrote in their paper, published ahead of print Monday (March 30) in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. „Failure to recognize these patients early and often may lead to unwitting spread of the disease.“
The study is not the first to report digestive symptoms as a sign of COVID-19. For example, a study posted March 18 in the same journal found that, among about 200 COVID-19 patients at three hospitals in Wuhan, China, around 50% reported at least one digestive symptom, and 18% reported diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain. However, that study and others have tended to focus on patients with severe illness, rather than those with mild disease.
In the new study, the researchers analyzed information from 206 patients at Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, which was designated as a hospital for COVID-19 patients. To be included in the study, patients needed to have a mild illness, without difficulty breathing or low blood oxygen levels.
Overall, 48 patients (23%) were admitted with digestive symptoms only, 89 (43%) with respiratory symptoms only and 69 (33%) with both respiratory and digestive symptoms.
Among all patients with digestive symptoms (117 patients), about 67 (58%) had diarrhea, and of these, 13 (20%) experienced diarrhea as the first symptom of their illness. Patients‘ diarrhea lasted from one to 14 days, with an average duration of five days, the report said. About one-third of patients with digestive symptoms never experienced a fever.
Patients with digestive symptoms tended to seek health care later than those with respiratory symptoms, an average of 16 days from the start of their symptoms, compared with 11 days for those with respiratory symptoms, the study found. Those with digestive symptoms also took longer to clear the virus from their body (test negative for COVID-19), taking about 41 days on average, compared with 33 days for those with respiratory symptoms only.
Finally, those with digestive symptoms were much more likely to have the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, detected in their stool, with about 73% having positive stool samples, compared with 14% of those with respiratory symptoms only. This finding suggests, but does not definitely confirm, that that virus infects the gastrointestinal tract, the authors said.
Overall, „these data emphasize that patients with new-onset diarrhea after a possible COVID-19 contact should be suspected for the illness, even in the absence of cough, shortness of breath, sore throat or even fever,“ the authors concluded. „Optimally, testing for COVID-19 should be performed using both respiratory and stool samples, if available.“
The authors note that their study was relatively small, and larger studies are needed to further describe digestive symptoms in patients with mild COVID-19.
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Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-diarrhea-symptoms.html
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What To Do To Keep From Catching Coronavirus: A Surgeon's Perspective.
Conspiracy Revelation: 31.3.2020: World Famous? I saw a video of you the first time some days ago, and well explained, so several decades you were not in the headlines, but now comes your very realistic virus prevention and warning time.
But basically you are saying most are lost when they catch this bioweapon.
„What To Do To Keep From Catching Coronavirus: A Surgeon’s Perspective 161.526 Aufrufe•18.03.2020“
„okay and this is very different if I come in contact with this novel coronavirus I will get sick now because
of my strong immunity it might be mild I might get over it faster but I will get sick okay that’s the truth.
Meditation is not gonna fix it, positive thinking is not gonna fix it, crystals are not gonna fix it. I’m
just gonna get sick but hopefully I’ll get it over faster so that’s number one there is no immunity to this everybody’s gonna get sick if you come in contact with it it might be mob know so number.“
„but the people it’s true the people who died is 80 years old more likely 80 years old and older and they were all
smokers a lot of them were smokers, because the smoking rate is much higher in China but prom is in the u.s. we have
a major um weakpoint, chink in the armor that’s gonna get us and that is obesity forty percent of American adults are
obese and we all know that the heavier you get the sicker you get so we have obese people with diabetes or prediabetes
sleep apnea they don’t know it their lung function is bad they have COPD they have trouble walking they can’t walk two
blocks you’re gonna get hit with this corona virus. I’m gonna promise you you’re gonna be on a respirator all right so our major risk factors are smoking and obesity all right so I would dismiss all of the old age old people statistics and memes that you guys see it is going to be a younger disease and than it is in China because of obesity and smoking y’all got that so if you’re 60 years old obese and a smoker you are
in trouble you have to really take this seriously if you have a parent who is obese and smoking or obese and just
having trouble or already on oxygen you need to tag them on this video and you share this video with them you got to
make them watch this because this is not hyperbole I’m giving you the straight shot so what we’re gonna see is that
then the age of this disease is gonna drop…“
„running out of ventilators so you’re gonna start seeing the deaths in June and July that’s really fucking depressing so you guys are arrogant right now it’s March you guys are just posting stupid memes you guys are are blowing us off you’re
gonna be burying your mom and your uncle and your cousin in July August September, because that’s when the death toll is coming, you got me?“
„how are you gonna pay for that funeral how are you gonna pay for your your grandmother’s funeral you are going to start to see all of these GoFundMe raising money pray for pray for I lost my uncle I lost my grandmother I helped me pay for
funeral costs you are asking people who are already
broke who are broke themselves to help you pay for your grandmother’s funeral this is the sober reality.. you guys gonna be start burying people in July August September you know your Facebook feed is gonna blow up in July August September oh my god so what so died May you’re gonna start
seeing people post pray for me pray for us pray for my son pray for my nephew pray for my mother’s in the hospital
coronavirus that’s coming in May if you don’t listen to me okay share this video if this has been helpful, right.“
„if you get the flu dr. Vaughn if you get the flu the first thing you need to do is isolate yourself okay you do not want to spread this okay this is gonna suck because a lot of
y’all when you get sick men just kiddin you want to be babied and who do you call you call your mama to come make you
chicken soup but in this case your mama is 60 65 70 years old she’s obese she smokes menthol cigarettes she cannot come take care of you the last person to take care of you if you get sick are the me immuno compromised the elderly your
grandmother.“


„Everybody is following in line with Italy. Italy is
about two weeks ahead of the United States it is about eight days ahead of UK for my UK Watchers and France and
Germany there are about eight to ten days ahead and everybody is falling along the projection of Italy by that I mean the number of cases and the number of deaths alright it is skyrocketing it looks like this the charts all look like this and we are falling in line with Italian data all right
this is fucking scary the Italian data says they are overwhelmed. Italy is on shutdown three weeks ago Italy was
happy-go-lucky didn’t care driving the Ferraris you know living in their nice Italian leather couches they are now on
shutdown they’re out of supplies guys they are right they have run out of ventilators the doctors are having
to decide who to treat and who not to treat this is these are the reports coming out you you can sit there and I don’t care if you sit there and say doctor Vong is just fear-mongering and he’s just gonna try to sell you something I don’t care still hit share that wouldn’t it would mean a lot to me
if you’re a hater and you hit share I don’t care hit share on this video please, if you don’t believe me hit share
and call me a dumb fuck I don’t care please spread out..“

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Pastor Who Claimed Covid-19 ‘Hysteria’ Was Plot Against Trump Dies From Virus
Conspiracy Revelation: 29.3.2020: Objectivism and Gnosis (empiric knowingness) is always superior to subjective belief systems in this natural (descended) world with natural enemies: „Nature works according to eternal, necessary, divine laws in such a way that the deity itself could not change anything about it. (J.W. Goethe)[2344]“
„Pastor Who Claimed Covid-19 ‘Hysteria’ Was Plot Against Trump Dies From Virus“
„Religious Ignorance Kills: Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus.
The 66-year-old father and husband from Virginia died due to complications from COVID-19 on Wednesday morning in North Carolina.
While on the way home from a mission trip, Spradlin collapsed and was taken to a hospital in Concord, North Carolina. He was eventually put on a ventilator as his condition worsened.
According to reports, Spradlin, a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist,” fell ill while on a missionary trip to New Orleans with his wife.
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On his Facebook page Spradlin shared a misleading meme attempting to minimize COVID-19, comparing the virus to the swine flu, and suggesting that the response to the coronavirus pandemic was media created “mass hysteria” to damage Trump: Spradlin also shared a post from a pastor claiming that a missionary in South Africa “protected” himself from the bubonic plague with the “Spirit of God.” A quote from the post reads:
As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.
The stupid, it kills.
The following is a sample of the reactions to Spradlin’s death via Twitter:
AC Sandino
@KarencaCarvajal
Christian pastor Landon Spradlin, who thought COVID-19 is just ‘mass hysteria’ is among the first in Virginia to die from virus. Rip.
Keenan Cobb 🧢📸 🎗
@keenancobb
On March 13, Pastor Landon Spradlin shared this post suggesting #COVID19 is a hoax. On March 24th he died of that hoax.
You can thank Trump and @FoxNews for perpetuating that narrative.
This is not a game.https://www.wbtv.com/2020/03/25/former-pastor-musician-with-covid-dies-concord-nc-hospital/?fbclid=IwAR2UbkkxUPgr7PlBANrwV9rW2o12Wr_bOMxkJRfMid5U_MToQSegyLDdcFg …
Former pastor, musician with COVID-19 dies in Concord, N.C. hospital
The 66-year-old was on his way back to Virginia following a trip to New Orleans with his wife when he began feeling ill.
Duty To Warn 🔉
@duty2warn
Landon Spradlin was a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist” who had previously shared opinions that the pandemic was simply “mass hysteria” from the media. He fell ill while on a trip to New Orleans. He has become one of the first deaths in Virginia from coronavirus.
RJBIII ✍️
@RolandB3
Landon Spradlin was a pastor. On FB, he shared a meme dismissing the media’s reaction to COVID-19 as mass hysteria.
He also shared a post that discussed protecting oneself from the plague with „the spirit of God“
Landon Spradlin died at 4am Wednesday morning.
BE CAREFUL. BE SAFE https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1243265481601093637 …
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Bottom line: Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the response to the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus.“
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