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Interesting read. My father-in-law died of Covid-19 last week. The thing that got him in the end after a 9 day battle was kidney failure. He had heart problems
by m0xte 7y ago
Interesting read. My father-in-law died of Covid-19 last week. The thing that got him in the end after a 9 day battle was kidney failure. He had heart problems and diabetes already as underlying conditions.
There’s one thing I take away from all of this and that is to eat and live healthy to reduce the things working against you as you get older. Age is bad enough on its own.
- stuff4ben 7y agoSorry for your loss. You're right about age being bad enough on its own!
- e40 7y agoNYT just has an article about kidney failure being a cause of death for COVID patients: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/kidney-dialysis-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/kidney-dialysis-co...
- m0xte 7y agoThanks - will read.
- dominotw 7y agowow. How are we supposed to plan for future calamities like this we cannot predict what we are going to need for the next pandemic. Looks like we should overstock everything we could possibly ever need.
- untilted 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X