A handful of young patients with mild coronavirus cases in New York hospitals have experienced large-vessel strokes.<br />According to Business Insider, a new report reveals the patients were at low risk for strokes.<br />Such strokes occur when a blood clot travels from the body into an artery in the brain.<br />The stroke-causing clots may be a result of coronavirus-induced swelling in blood vessels.<br />Dr. Thomas Oxley, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and published the report.<br />Oxley said that since first speaking out about these stroke cases, he's been flooded with emails from other coronavirus patients describing minor strokes.
