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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by woofie11 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:54AM (#22574419)
... no. Unless you're a child, it's not a cold.

Good shot of ending up in the ICU.

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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by dmos62 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:55AM (#22574422)
Anyone has sources?
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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by choeger on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:58AM (#22574431)
The numbers vary massively but I have seen a number of about 20% hospitalized cases. This includes the elderly and people with preconditions. But still, you would not want to develop any pneumonia when your local hospital is running over its capacity.
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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by forkexec on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:45PM (#22576630)
It's a given that American hospitals will be running out of ventilators, beds, and nurses will be stretched too thin. And if you need an ECMO and/or organ transplant in the near future, good luck with that.
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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by greatest-ape on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:07AM (#22574456)
Unsurprisingly, smoking seems to be a huge risk factor [1]: “[..] the multivariate logistic analysis indicated that age (OR, 8.546; 95% CI: 1.62844.864; P = 0.011), history of smoking (OR, 14.285; 95% CI: 1.57725.000; P = 0.018), maximum body temperature at admission (OR, 8.999; 95% CI: 1.03678.147, P = 0.046), respiratory failure (OR, 8.772, 95% CI: 1.94240.000; P =0.016), albumin (OR, 7.353, 95% CI: 1.09850.000; P =0.003) and C-reactive protein (OR, 10.53; 95% CI:

1.22434.701, P = 0.028) were risk factor for disease progression [Table 4].”

[1] https://journals.lww.com/cmj/Abstract/publishahead/Analysis_...

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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by thatswrong0 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:09AM (#22574466)
https://miro.medium.com/max/3660/1*-O84hhKDRHmgMVAslvgj-Q.pn...

Here's a chart made from a study in China. It's actually a bit unclear, but I'm assuming it's 18.5% of confirmed cases that require hospitalization. Now, the question is how many of those that got sick at all got confirmed in China, and how many people presented symptoms (those are unknown).

So it seems like it's less than 18.5%. On top of this, Chinese men are heavy smokers and the air quality in China is pretty terrible, so that may play a part as well.

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