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Almost all healthy, working-age people won't die from corona. Many of them won't even really notice that they have something other than a cold. Some won't have

by PakG1 7y ago

Almost all healthy, working-age people won't die from corona. Many of them won't even really notice that they have something other than a cold. Some won't have any symptoms at all. Perhaps most, and yet the whistleblower doctor in China who died was 34, and just recently a doctor who postponed his wedding scheduled for the Spring Festival in order to go help in Wuhan was 29. So are they very rare outliers or do we just not have a large enough sample size yet? https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang-in-critical-condition-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-whistleblower-do... https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-kills-chinese-doctor-peng-yinhua-delayed-wedding-fight-disease-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-kills-chinese-do...

bamboozled 7y ago
It sounds like these guys were working on the front line, probably extremely long hours in very unsanitary conditions and exposed to extremely high viral loads. I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I can also see how they would've been in a very vulnerable place.
lidHanteyk 7y ago
Doctors have more exposure to stressors of the immune system. They get sick and injured surprisingly often; while they know how to avoid exposure and injury and how to treat themselves, they cannot help but work in places like hospitals where they are constantly exposed. Additionally, air quality is worse in that area compared to where you likely live. Really, treat this like a really bad flu season. It will be bad, but it is much worse for some demographics than others.
- nate_meurer 7y ago
  It's also quite possible that these doctors were smokers. Chinese doctors smoke at least as much as the general chinese population, which already suffers the highest per capita smoking rates in the world. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ - Tobacco smoking among doctors in mainland China: a study from Shandong province and review of the literature

by PakG1 7y ago

bamboozled 7y ago

It sounds like these guys were working on the front line, probably extremely long hours in very unsanitary conditions and exposed to extremely high viral loads. I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I can also see how they would've been in a very vulnerable place.

lidHanteyk 7y ago

Doctors have more exposure to stressors of the immune system. They get sick and injured surprisingly often; while they know how to avoid exposure and injury and how to treat themselves, they cannot help but work in places like hospitals where they are constantly exposed. Additionally, air quality is worse in that area compared to where you likely live. Really, treat this like a really bad flu season. It will be bad, but it is much worse for some demographics than others.

nate_meurer 7y ago
It's also quite possible that these doctors were smokers. Chinese doctors smoke at least as much as the general chinese population, which already suffers the highest per capita smoking rates in the world. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519549/ - Tobacco smoking among doctors in mainland China: a study from Shandong province and review of the literature