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Covid and Hypoxia - What's the Big Three Symptoms?
The main symptom for covit is respiritory distress that patients come in with at the point where they are being admitted to hospital. But one curious phenomenon also can have emerged, that is some something referred to sometimes as happy hypoxia. Some patients can have alarmingly low oxygen levels and still not be that short of breath. They're apparently quite comfortable. It's really hard to risk stratify these patients. They appear stable, and then can suddenly deteriorate without the usual warning signs.