{"id":107497,"date":"2020-05-23T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-great-invader-how-covid-attacks-every-organ"},"modified":"2020-05-23T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T12:42:20","slug":"the-great-invader-how-covid-attacks-every-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-great-invader-how-covid-attacks-every-organ","title":{"rendered":"The Great Invader: How COVID Attacks Every Organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-great-invader-how-covid-attacks-every-organ2.webm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be a gastrointestinal disease causing only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/digestive-disorders\/digestive-diseases-diarrhea\">diarrhea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/pain-management\/guide\/abdominal-pain-causes-treatments\">abdominal pain<\/a>. It can cause symptoms that may be confused with a cold or the flu. It can cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/eye-health\/eye-health-conjunctivitis\">pinkeye<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/allergies\/postnasal-drip\">runny nose<\/a>, loss of taste and smell, muscle aches, fatigue, diarrhea, loss of appetite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/digestive-disorders\/digestive-diseases-nausea-vomiting\">nausea and vomiting<\/a>, whole-body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/digestive-disorders\/digestive-diseases-nausea-vomiting\">rashes<\/a>, and areas of swelling and redness in just a few spots.<\/p>\n<p>In a more severe disease, doctors have also reported people having heart rhythm problems, heart failure, kidney damage, confusion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/migraines-headaches\/migraines-headaches-basics\">headaches<\/a>, seizures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/brain\/what-is-guillain-barre\">Guillain<\/a>-Barre syndrome, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/brain\/understanding-fainting-basics\">fainting<\/a> spells, along with new sugar control problems.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just a fever and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cold-and-flu\/overview\">coughing<\/a>, leading to shortness of breath, like everyone thought at first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be a gastrointestinal disease causing only diarrhea and abdominal pain. It can cause symptoms that may be confused with a cold or the flu. It can cause pinkeye, a runny nose, loss of taste and smell, muscle aches, fatigue, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, whole-body rashes, and areas of swelling and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}