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I'm less worried about death rate than the long term damage I might likely suffer from. The paper mentions that the onset of pulmonary fibrosis may be close to
by DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
I'm less worried about death rate than the long term damage I might likely suffer from. The paper mentions that the onset of pulmonary fibrosis may be close to levels seen in SARS/MERS (~45%) and usually develops 3-6 months after the infection. There has also been another paper[0] indicating high chances of testicular damage.
There is an interesting thought experiment here. Hospitals are a large vector for spreading the disease. On the individual level you'd want to stay away from them as much as you can. On the collective level, that behavior is counter-productive ofc.
[0] ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v...
- jpxw 7y agoPulmonary fibrosis is essentially a death sentence, too. It’s important to keep that in mind.
- valenceelectron 7y agoIf I understand the relevant parts of this paper correctly, then this pulmonary fibrosis is not an ongoing and worsening condition in patients recovered from SARS. They "merely" attest that there was more long-term damage to those patients lungs that took months to recover (if at all). Not in the field of medicine though, so I might be incorrect.