DEADLY blood clots are being mistaken for Covid, doctors have warned.
Some of the symptoms of a blood clot, including breathlessness and blackouts, are wrongly being blamed on Coronavirus.
Therefore, patients with potentially life threatening blood clots are not receiving the treatment they need.
The warning comes from the charity Thrombosis UK, which fears there have been avoidable deaths as a result of misdiagnosed Covid.
The charity says it has received repeated reports of patients with recognisable blood clot symptoms who have been advised their symptoms are most likely caused by Covid-19.
As a result, many of these patients have only been correctly diagnosed with blood clots at a life-critical stage or, tragically, after death.