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Re:Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say curren... by echelon on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:55PM (#23743290)
This accounts only for death. The virus is leaving some unfortunate people with long-term pulmonary, cardiac, kidney, and/or liver damage. Some are even developing diabetes symptoms after the infection subsides.

We seriously need to consider long-term damage to health as part of the equation.

I would like to see the statistics on these reports, not just mortality rate.

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Re:Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say curren... by claudeganon on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:13PM (#23743408)
There’s already evidence it causes immune system disregulation, similar to HIV:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/health/coronavirus-immune...

The idea that we know anything meaningful about what impact COVID will have on people’s long term health is foolhardy to the extreme. Extreme precaution is the only reasonable path in the face of these kinds of unknowns.

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Re:Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say curren... by postalrat on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:17PM (#23743434)
How often does covid leave people that type of damage? I've heard of individual cases but haven't seen how rare or common it is.
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Re:Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say curren... by YZF on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:35PM (#23743550)
I think this is still under study. I've heard a number of 67% of mild/asympotmatic cases having evidence of lung damage (https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/23/8645362... says 57%). I also saw an interview with an Israeli Dr. who is doing a study (that study is in progress) who said significant numbers suffer from symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath (I think this may be the same one: https://www.timesofisrael.com/its-frightening-doctors-say-ha... ).

I think the bottom line is we don't know for sure but if needed a little more evidence this isn't just a walk in the park I think we got some.

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