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Thank you very much for the clarification and for posting there! Yes, it is but one explanation and one possible reason out of many. I think others there have m
by yingw787 7y ago
Thank you very much for the clarification and for posting there! Yes, it is but one explanation and one possible reason out of many. I think others there have mentioned stress (I believe I read one 27 y/o doctor sadly dropped dead after working 10 days straight) and contexts such as existing immune system health (I've read a good number of stories of outbreaks in hospitals in addition to this nursing home story).
- mlyle 7y agoYup. I'm not really involved in medicine (I've done a couple of things on the periphery), but one thing I've learned from reading lots of papers is just because something seems to make perfect sense doesn't mean it's what is actually happening. Another factor beyond just viral load is viral diversity. People that are exposed to high viral loads also tend to be exposed to a genetically diverse population of viruses with a range of virulence and there's more likely to be virus that is particularly adapted to grow in that person and virulent. Also, there is almost certainly genetic variance in 2019-nCoV virulence and lethality, and the nastier strains are probably more concentrated in hospitals.