The most dangerous period for patients with coronavirus is the ninth to tenth day of illness. At this time, the infected person develops shortness of breath and acute respiratory distress syndrome, characterized by the onset of a wide inflammatory process in the lungs. Ukrainian doctor Andrey Penkov told about this in an interview with lb.ua.
Such processes in the body, according to the expert, are associated with an overreaction of immunity. “The cytokine storm begins after the first week of illness – hospitalization is most often needed at this time,” the doctor added.
According to Penkov, it is in the second week of the disease that new immunological changes appear in the blood and all reactive markers of inflammation increase. The specialist emphasized that at this moment serious treatment should be used.
Earlier, Vladislav Mohamed Ali, medical director of the SberZorovye service told “Lenta.ru” , that the onset of a severe form of coronavirus is usually indicated by two symptom: persistent high body temperature and shortness of breath.