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Mysterious blood clots are Covid-19's latest lethal surprise

A medical team turns over a patient with COVID-19 in an intensive care unit in Stamford, Connecticut

After he had spent nearly three weeks in an intensive care unit being treated for COVID-19, Broadway and TV actor Nick Cordero's doctors were forced to amputate his right leg.

The 41-year-old's blood flow had been impeded by a clot: yet another dangerous complication of the disease that has been bubbling up in frontline reports from China, Europe and the United States.

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