Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV infection

Re:Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV i... by DyslexicAtheist on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:23AM (#22412112)

I'm less worried about death rate than the long term damage I might likely suffer from. The paper mentions that the onset of pulmonary fibrosis may be close to levels seen in SARS/MERS (~45%) and usually develops 3-6 months after the infection. There has also been another paper[0] indicating high chances of testicular damage.

There is an interesting thought experiment here. Hospitals are a large vector for spreading the disease. On the individual level you'd want to stay away from them as much as you can. On the collective level, that behavior is counter-productive ofc.

[0] ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v...

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Re:Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV i... by jpxw on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:48AM (#22412709)

Pulmonary fibrosis is essentially a death sentence, too. It’s important to keep that in mind.

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Re:Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV i... by valenceelectron on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:08PM (#22414895)

If I understand the relevant parts of this paper correctly, then this pulmonary fibrosis is not an ongoing and worsening condition in patients recovered from SARS. They "merely" attest that there was more long-term damage to those patients lungs that took months to recover (if at all). Not in the field of medicine though, so I might be incorrect.

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