Are young adults sitting at a similar risk level as older adults and seniors?
As we have all gotten used to it, the older population is generally at increased risk when it comes to dealing with any kind of health issue, be it COVID-19, another type of infectious disease, or blood clots and strokes. The mystifying properties of the coronavirus, however, turn all our calculations upside down.
Younger people are just as likely to get a stroke due to complications caused by COVID-19 as are older patients. It seems like this pandemic has also shown us that certain viruses do not take note of how healthy or young a person was; in the case of COVID, younger people may have dealt with the respiratory issues better and recovered completely, but quite a significant number of them have had other health problems to deal with in the wake of the coronavirus.
The worst thing is that infected patients run the risk of experiencing a stroke due to blood clots not only during the time they are sick but also after they are healed if there are some remnants in their blood stream. Strokes are also extremely unpredictable, so the exact chance can never truly be quantified in numbers either.
