Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
by mikeyouse on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:47PM
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Not to disagree with anything you said here, but there was recently a story comparing the fates of two young Chinese medical workers who both contracted the disease and who required medical care. The punchline is that a 29-year old physician with no co-morbidities died a terrible death. Be careful out there no matter your age or health status.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/co...
Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
by _-___________-_ on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:00AM
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This guy is pretty clearly an outlier (or there is some missing information).
In Italy only 5 people under 40 have died, out of approx. 2500 deaths so far, and every one of the 5 had an existing serious illness.
Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
by DanBC on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:14AM
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"Didn't die" is not the same as "was not harmed".
This relentless focus only on the people who died misses the point: covid-19 puts people in hospital, sometimes into intensive care, and many of those people end up with damaged lungs.
Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
by _-___________-_ on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:36AM
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Yeah, I've been reading this all over HN, and saw a few articles out of China at the peak there, but have struggled to find good sources on the prevalence of it elsewhere. In particular, there's a lot of data coming out of Italy but very little that I've found mentions long-term lung damage. Could you share your sources?
The youngest of the UK's >100 confirmed COVID-19 fatalities was in his forties and already terminally ill. Young people aren't totally safe and should certainly avoid contracting it if possible with a view to protecting the people they come into contact with and not taking up a hospital bed if they're at the unlucky end of the spectrum, but relatively speaking they're a tiny fraction of the overall casualties, and probably have more exposure to the virus than the elderly due to more active social/work lives.