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Re:Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over... by dehrmann on Saturday September 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#24601279)
I could end up being very wrong, but it's probably uncommon or else it'd surface somewhere other than support groups for those people and anecdotal accounts in local news stories. Enough celebrities and politicians have gotten it that if this were widespread, they'd be sounding the alarm en masse and we'd be hearing all about it.
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Re:Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over... by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday September 26, 2020 @03:45PM (#24601580)
Off the top of your head, do you recall any stories of "I had a bad case of Covid and am 100% now"?

I think there is an assumption that if you contract something that puts people in the ICU, you should expect your life to be permanently altered by it. I suspect that assumption is helping mute attempts to collect and quantify that data.

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Re:Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over... by arcticbull on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:59PM (#24603373)
Pretty much anything will put someone into the ICU in the right circumstances, which is why quantification of risk matters. Flu puts people into the ICU. Drinking too much water can put you into the ICU. Those are much smaller risks though.
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