A man has died from coronavirus after suffering a three-hour erection caused by the disease, a study claims. The Covid patient, from Ohio, US, was placed on a ventilator in Miami Valley Hospital in August last year after catching the disease.
Doctors left the 69-year-old on his stomach for 12 hours in a bid to help him breathe but when they turned him back over he had an erection, the study said.
They tried to reduce the swelling with an ice pack but this was unsuccessful, doctos said in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
After three hours they were forced to drain the blood from his penis with a needle. He was diagnosed with the condition low-flow priapism, which is when blood becomes trapped in the phallus.