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31 year old doctor died from it. That raises some alarms for me when media is saying it is like the flu. Do a lot of 31 year old doctors die from the flu? I se

31 year old doctor died from it. That raises some alarms for me when media is saying it is like the flu. Do a lot of 31 year old doctors die from the flu? I seriously hope China can contain this.

hanoz 7y ago
> I seriously hope China can contain this. I don't think there's any chance of that. I'm sure that within a month most well connected counties will have multiple cases with no apparent connection to China, and the realisation will have dawned that the cat is well and truly out of the bag. My only hope is that the infection numbers in China are being massively under reported, i.e. because most carriers have very minor symptoms, and that therefore the mortality rate is not at bad as it currently seems. But that's a bit of a long shot I fear.
i_am_nomad 7y ago
To be fair, a very, very stressed out 31 year old doctor died from it. Stress does truly awful things to the immune system.
- djmips 7y ago
  We're all going to be pretty stressed if this hits hard.
semireg 7y ago
The Lancet article [1] describes smoking as an increased risk factor. I wonder if his lungs were compromised in some way. Tragic. 1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30211-7/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- 8fingerlouie 7y ago
  Smoking in general is not exactly helpful with pulmonary diseases. In a case like this where the virus causes viral pneumonia, shortness of breath, etc, basically all the various diseases you're predisposed to if smoking, so that shortness of breath becomes a lot worse, and the little hairs in your airways have been molested by smoking, so there's not much debris/mucus transport happening out of the lungs. Viral pneumonia will most likely be joined by a bacterial pneumonia when you fail to ventilate your lungs properly. People worry about Corona virus killing 2-5%, and yet smoking kills about 50%, with an individual risk of dying at about 300% of a non smoker.

31 year old doctor died from it. That raises some alarms for me when media is saying it is like the flu. Do a lot of 31 year old doctors die from the flu? I seriously hope China can contain this.

hanoz 7y ago

> I seriously hope China can contain this. I don't think there's any chance of that. I'm sure that within a month most well connected counties will have multiple cases with no apparent connection to China, and the realisation will have dawned that the cat is well and truly out of the bag. My only hope is that the infection numbers in China are being massively under reported, i.e. because most carriers have very minor symptoms, and that therefore the mortality rate is not at bad as it currently seems. But that's a bit of a long shot I fear.

i_am_nomad 7y ago

To be fair, a very, very stressed out 31 year old doctor died from it. Stress does truly awful things to the immune system.

djmips 7y ago
We're all going to be pretty stressed if this hits hard.

semireg 7y ago

The Lancet article [1] describes smoking as an increased risk factor. I wonder if his lungs were compromised in some way. Tragic. 1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30211-7/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

8fingerlouie 7y ago
Smoking in general is not exactly helpful with pulmonary diseases. In a case like this where the virus causes viral pneumonia, shortness of breath, etc, basically all the various diseases you're predisposed to if smoking, so that shortness of breath becomes a lot worse, and the little hairs in your airways have been molested by smoking, so there's not much debris/mucus transport happening out of the lungs. Viral pneumonia will most likely be joined by a bacterial pneumonia when you fail to ventilate your lungs properly. People worry about Corona virus killing 2-5%, and yet smoking kills about 50%, with an individual risk of dying at about 300% of a non smoker.