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To be precise, the COVID-19 virus is not “viral pneumonia”. Viral pneumonia is a symptom (pneumonia caused by a virus) which results from COVID-19 in the minori
by zaroth 7y ago
To be precise, the COVID-19 virus is not “viral pneumonia”. Viral pneumonia is a symptom (pneumonia caused by a virus) which results from COVID-19 in the minority of cases.
Studies of the number of known cases which resulted in viral pneumonia find, for example;
“A total of 81% of cases in the JAMA study were classified as mild, meaning they did not result in pneumonia or resulted in only mild pneumonia.”
That is not to say that 20% of all cases are severe, but 20% of the cases in that study were.
- fspeech 7y agoPneumonia is the inflammation of the lung. You will find covid patients more reliably through lung CT than nucleotide tests of swabs. People are confused about what "mild" means: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-aylward.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-... What were mild, severe and critical? We think of “mild” as like a minor cold. No. “Mild” was a positive test, fever, cough — maybe even pneumonia, but not needing oxygen. “Severe” was breathing rate up and oxygen saturation down, so needing oxygen or a ventilator. “Critical” was respiratory failure or multi-organ failure. So saying 80 percent of all cases are mild doesn’t mean what we thought. I’m Canadian. This is the Wayne Gretzky of viruses — people didn’t think it was big enough or fast enough to have the impact it does.