{"id":8058,"date":"2020-05-08T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2020-05-08T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:20:15","slug":"from-blood-clots-to-covid-toe-the-medical-mysteries-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8058","title":{"rendered":"From blood clots to \u2018Covid toe\u2019: the medical mysteries of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/be7e66c0-1243-45dd-829f-8b192c18acff\">Clive Cookson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But less than five months after it was first identified, this new coronavirus is managing to throw up a series of medical mysteries \u2014 from blood clots and strokes to digestive problems \u2014 that are confounding the scientific community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>From head to foot, Covid-19 causes a fiendish variety of symptoms. Some are relatively mild, such as loss of smell and taste or chilblain-like sores on toes. But others may be fatal, such as when what doctors call an immune storm destroys vital organs. The more this virus is studied, the more complex it appears to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEvery day we\u2019re learning of new tricks that the virus plays,\u201d says Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London. \u201cIt is remarkable to see a disease unfolding in front of our eyes with so many twists and turns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clive Cookson: But less than five months after it was first identified, this new coronavirus is managing to throw up a series of medical mysteries \u2014 from blood clots and strokes to digestive problems \u2014 that are confounding the scientific community. From head to foot, Covid-19 causes a fiendish variety of symptoms. Some are relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}