A 20-year-old college student died while quarantining in her dorm room after developing symptoms of COVID-19

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Canela López
,INSIDER•November 4, 2020

Bethany Nesbitt, a 20-year-old psychology student at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, was found dead in her dorm room on October 30, 1o days after developing symptoms of COVID-19.

According to a statement put out by her family, Nesbitt suffered a pulmonary embolism, a blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries of the lungs, caused by a blood clot.

Blood clotting is a common and deadly complication of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. 

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Since the start of the pandemic, blood clots have emerged as a common and deadly complication of what was initially thought to be a solely respiratory disease.

Research from New York University published in July found the disease can cause blood clots in every single organ of the body.

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Doctors are also unsure as to why otherwise healthy young people are developing clots. Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, told CNN in April: "Our report shows a sevenfold increase in incidence of sudden stroke in young patients during the past two weeks. Most of these patients have no past medical history and were at home with either mild symptoms (or in two cases, no symptoms) of COVID-19."

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Researchers believe clots are also responsible for conditions like "COVID toes" — purple, swollen toes linked to COVID-19 — as well as the many strokes, heart attacks, and pulmonary embolisms being recorded in COVID-19 patients.

Clots have also led to long-lasting symptoms in "long-haul" patients, including kidney failure, heart inflammation, and immune system complications.