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I am on a stock trading team and the doctor who runs it (Ironically a brain surgeon with brain cancer) caught it at the hospital while doing his weekly treatments. He took the GILD drug and said he has had colds and the flu that were much more severe. He said it was really over hyped in the media. Anyone else know anyone or caught it themselves?
There is literally over 100 pages of this shit to read through
Yes some people have mild symptoms, some have none at all and some have severe symptoms.
All well documented by scientists. all discussed and argued about in the aforementioned thread
I know of a customer of ours who was the first in our county to test positive for it. He farms and is an airline pilot and feels he got it up at O'hare. I haven't talked to him but an article I read about him indicated that he felt ill with a sore throat and went ahead and quarantined himself in his house separate from his wife and two young sons. After a few days he sought medical treatment but was not tested due to the criteria at the time. He returned a day or two later because of the persistent cough he developed. He was admitted to the hospital, tested and given an antibiotic; discharged a couple of days later. I believe he indicated it took about thirteen days to get the results and he was pretty much back to normal by that point. He did lose sense of taste. He about 50 yo and neither his wife or kids got it.
I also knew an elderly resident at a local nursing home which had it. He passed away as well as eight others now at that facility. We also have three other long term care facilities with cases. All the 11 deaths in our county have been in these facilities. Its a shame but also puzzling since these nursing homes have been restricting access and checking employees since the middle of March. We had one facility just now announce their first case yesterday. I believe asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic people may be the cause. Some people have been known to test positive for a month or longer too.
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All 3 of my older children have had acquaintances that tested positive, but they are in larger towns than I am (Seattle and Portland).
Now with all that said, if you’re a healthy individual with no pre-existing conditions, I wouldn’t fear it. However, we do need to take steps to limit the spread in order to protect those who do have pre-existing conditions. I also think some people are so afraid of getting it, that they’re going overboard. I get wearing a mask in a store, but wearing one out on a bike trail? Do they think COVID just exists in the air, and they can catch it just by stepping outside their home? I’m also convinced at least 75% of the mask wearers are doing so as to not catch it themselves, as opposed to prevent unknowingly spreading it. The level of fear people have of this is on another level.
With that said we have had people die of heart attacks at work before.
Death of Lockheed employee
Pit Row
It’s kind of like a box of chocolates.
So because he was possitive, all his family living at home was tested.... two sons and his wife, and all of them got negative results.
It is supposed to be extremly contagious, but seems like sleeping together with my aunt was not enough...
hundreds of thousands of people around the world would love to share their anecdotal stories about it, but they are no longer above ground.
But to put it into perspective last year 35,000 Americans died from the flu.
That many people are dying every month in the US now, despite the most widespread social distancing measures in history.
When was the last time NY had to store flu victims in trucks due to lack of space in morgues?
https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-…
Both are bad and yes it sucks when people you love die. It's been happening forever and will go on forever. Neither will change how I choose to live my life. You're more than welcome to hide in your basement for as long as you want but don't tell me how to live my life (the last part of that statement is directed at my governor).
Because of derision makers listening to scientists, and a common sense approach with a pinch of luck my country has 4 deaths per million population, and whilst the economy has taken a hit, its recovering at a steady rate.
I am rightly proud of how we managed it. (that does not imply any comparison to any other country, just saying I am happy with how Australia is dealing with it)
That answer your question or do you need more?
I was pretty worried about it at first because it first touched down at the elderly care center a block away from my apartment. Pretty weird how it's fizzled out.
People look for excuses to not take it seriously. My doctor is the medical director for Unity One here. He told me he's never seen anything like it.
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