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Fallbeispiel eines Covid-19-Verlaufs: Chad Dorrill, 19, gestorben, an exercise science major at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.


A North Carolina college sophomore who was described by his family as "super-healthy" died Monday from COVID-19 complications, according to multiple reports.

Chad Dorrill, an exercise science major at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., was living off-campus and taking classes online when he started feeling unwell earlier this month, school Chancellor Sheri Everts announced in a statement on Tuesday. His mother, Susan Dorrill, encouraged him to come home, quarantine and be tested for COVID-19. The university had tested 7,569 students on campus this semester as of Sunday, and 334 were positive, for a test positivity rate of 4.4 percent. 

A New York Times database tracking the virus on college campuses has recorded at least 130,000 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, mostly this fall, and about 70 confirmed deaths, mostly in the spring among college employees.



"After testing positive for COVID-19 in his home county, he followed isolation procedures and was cleared by his doctor to return to Boone," Everts added. "It was after his return to Boone that he had additional complications, was picked up by his family, and hospitalized."


Susan Dorrill said in a now-private Facebook post that her son didn't exhibit any known symptoms of COVID-19, and was just "incredibly tired" for two weeks.

“Little did we know (the virus) was secretly attacking his body in a way they have never seen before,” she said.

Doctors said it was “the rarest” of COVID-19 cases, according to the Charlotte Observer- Tonia Maxcy, a friend of the Dorill family, said doctors suspected he had a previously undetected case of Guillain-Barre-Syndrom



Although the coronavirus targets the lungs foremost, it also attacks the kidneys , liver and blood vessels, and a significant number of patients report neurological symptoms (nyt-Link)  including headaches , confusion and delirium. “When he tried to get out of bed,” Mr. Dorrill said, “his legs were not working, and my brother had to carry him to the car and take him to the emergency room. The doctor said it was a one-in-a-million case — that they’d never seen something progress the way it did. It was a Covid complication that rather than attacking his respiratory system attacked his brain.”

Fallbeispiel eines bisher seltenen Covid-19-Verlaufs: Chad Dorrill, 19, gestorben, ein sehr sportlicher Student an der Appalachian State University in Boone, Nordcarolina. Ein Arzt beschrieb den raschen Verlauf als den Seltenen Fall (one-in-a-million case) — bei der Covid-19-Komplikation wurden nicht die Atemwege sondern das Zentrale Nervensystem angegriffen. 


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Guillain-Barre-Syndrom

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