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It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first h
by kjakm 7y ago
It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first hand experiences I've read on the Twitter/News people's experience varies wildly. Some people say it's not much worse than the flu. On the otherhand I saw a tweet from one doctor who had it claim it was worse than child birth so seems like the variation in experience can be massive.
[1] https://twitter.com/yaletung https://twitter.com/yaletung
- mmcnl 7y agoCouldn't this be because doctors in hospitals only see patients who require hospitalization? That gives them a bias.
- kjakm 7y agoThe two doctors I was referring to were referring to their own experiences of having the disease (not of observing patients). Not sure I made that clear enough.
- samfriedman 7y ago>people's experience varies wildly Here's an article about two Chinese women with COVID-19, with very different outcomes. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-death-life.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=488592137&imp_id=369373730 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/co...
- rntksi 7y agoWhat a heart wrenching article. When it's just numbers people can brush it off, but when it has a human face and story, I think that's when it really hits most people. More so when it affects closed ones too. I've been repeating this to my students: don't panic, but be cautious.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoDoctors' reports seem more trustworthy than patient social media because patient social media is likely to have a stronger selection bias. If you're in excruciating pain (or just part of an older demographic) you're less likely to be tweeting about it than if you have a mild cough, so expect harsher symptoms to be underrepresented.