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You need to add a critical “some” before “healthy young people”. For some people, it is possible to go through a whole course of coronavirus without ever showin
by jacobolus 7y ago
You need to add a critical “some” before “healthy young people”. For some people, it is possible to go through a whole course of coronavirus without ever showing any noticeable symptoms at all, or nothing distinguishable from a typical cold, and come out the other end immune. For example here are 2 exceptionally mild cases https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0452_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0452_article
But for some others, it is a hellishly bad experience which causes weeks of awful symptoms (e.g. only breathing via a mechanical ventilator), and for some healthy young people it even results in severe pneumonia leading to speedy death.
For example https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-update-new-jersey-patient-speaks-out/ https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-update-n...
> The 32-year-old physician’s assistant, a non-smoker with no underlying health conditions, believes he contracted it while attending a medical conference in Times Square last weekend, saying the coronavirus spread quickly to both his lungs.
> “The virus is everything. Dirarrhea, watery eyes, shortness of breath, chest pain, you name it. High fever,” he said. “Every day is getting worse.”
> “It happened so quick,” he said.