From ‘happy hypoxia’ to purpuric rashes “” here are all the perilous ways the coronavirus attacks the body

From ‘happy hypoxia’ to purpuric rashes “” here are all the perilous ways the coronavirus attacks the body

A nurse wears personal protective equipment (PPE) as she cares for a coronavirus COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit (I.C.U.) at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesIt's been almost eight months since Chinese scientists first identified the coronavirus and doctors are still discovering new symptoms that can ravage the body and leave lasting damage months after recovering from Covid-19. While more than 813,000 people have died from the disease, a majority of the more than 23.6 million people with confirmed infections have recovered. But it hasn't affected all of them the same. Once thought of as just a respiratory illness, Covid-19 is marked as much by the variety of potentially perilous ways it harms the body as it is for the