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| haxxiy said: To be fair, 12% - 19% of hospitalized patients, and 10% of those with anosmia, should both be around or below 1% of all infections. Lung damage is trickier since we don't know the percentage of people who develop pneumonia from this, but these should also be a subset of those hospitalized except for a few people, specially among the elderly, who won't develop symptoms from lung inflammation. Regardless... I'm surprised people never came to the realization disease causes damage, at least for some time. If only you knew the sort of tissue scarring I've seen in tonsilectomy ops, after just a few recurring episodes of strep throat... it ain't pretty I tell you. Again, not trying to minimize this, just put in context and make people realize how much, much worse this could have been. Imagine a particulatly virulent adenovirus type 14 that causes progressive constrictive bronchiolitis in a significant number of infections a few months later. Or a random mutation making a filovirus airborne and infectious to humans, like it happened in a párticular monkey population not long ago. |
Lung damage has also been observed in asymptomatic patients :/
https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/covid-19-asymptomatic-lung-damage-0523532/
One of the biggest conundrums surrounding COVID-19 is its astonishing variability of disease prognosis. Take two people of identical demographics and one of them might end up in the ICU while the other might not even have any symptoms to show. This unpredictability is what partly makes this virus extremely challenging to contain. Yet, even though COVID-19 positive cases may be asymptomatic, that doesn’t mean that organs are spared from damage ‘under the hood’.
Fact is, we simply don't know what long term effects this new disease can cause. What I'm worried about atm is the ongoing symptoms my wife has with her intestinal tract. She still has trouble keeping food in, guts cramping half the day, yet doesn't think going to see a doctor will be of any use nor safe.
