The oxygen level can be measured through a test called “pulse oximetry” that uses a sensor placed on fingertips. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Patients who recently died of Covid-19 in Banyumas, Central Java, experienced an unusual coronavirus effect of 'happy hypoxia', in which they had dangerously low oxygen levels in their blood yet showed no usual symptoms of the disease, kompas.com has reported.
Banyumas Regent Achmad Husein said on Tuesday (Aug 18) that three out of seven patients who succumbed to the coronavirus disease "seemed to be just fine and showed no symptoms Covid-19, such as a cough, runny nose or high fever, but their oxygen saturation had slowly dropped [without them knowing it]."
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