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> This is completely contradictory. You should stop reading fake news or social media reports, because this is where some utter stupid statements like this come

by kaybe 7y ago

> This is completely contradictory. You should stop reading fake news or social media reports, because this is where some utter stupid statements like this come from. It depends what exactly 'mild' means I guess. I might not have worded it well (not my first language etc). Just to be sure I went to the most reliable sources available (not just standard news - it's in German though, they cite a lot of papers if anyone is interested, but most are for SARS-CoV-1, 45-48 specifically talk about long-term damages) and I still stand by my statement, though the phrasing I chose make it appear more drastic than I meant it. If everyone gets it and a few percent of the population get lasting damage (which from a quick paper survey does not seem totally unrealistic), is that acceptable? (https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Steckbrief.html https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...) (eg https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01720.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-1843...)

dustinmoris 7y ago
You really need to educate yourself a bit on basics, so that you don't believe every stupid news report. Remember, since the lockdown news papers have nothing else to report on except coronavirus. They must find something new newsworthy every day and therefore a lot of utter shit gets printed. 1. The news article which you originally posted is a summary of the message which the doctor gave in a scubadiving magazine. In that magazine the message is less sensationalist. 2. Not every COVID-19 infection ends up affecting your lungs. COVID-19 in particular starts in your throat (which is why many report a sore throat to begin with). Once it is in your throat the virus multiplies and will eventually penetrate your lungs. However, if you are fit and healthy then normally your body will react quickly and start fighting the virus. In my case I had really high fever for 2 days and on day 3 and after I was getting significantly better. My immune system was able to fight the virus before it even got to my lungs. I had a sore throat, high fever, didn't taste my food, had a cough, fatigue, but I didn't have shortness of breath. If the virus never enters your lungs it can't damage them. 3. Even if the virus enters your lungs it doesn't mean anything yet. It really depends how strong your immune system is in reacting to the virus. If it takes 7-10 days like with old or weakend people then your lungs might get severly infected before your body starts to fight it off, however when you're healthy then you might fight it off before you get a bad lung infection. 4. A lung infection is not unique to COVID-19. It doesn't matter what causes your lung infection, once you have it the symptoms and possible outcomes are the same. Doesn't matter if bronchitis, a flu, a bad cold or COVID-19 caused you to get a lung infection or pneumonia. Anyways, with some medical support even those people will get over it in most cases. However, it is VERY COMMON to have many weeks after a lung infection still some leftover symptoms. Some patients have a cough for two months after a bad cold or flu. It is common that there will still be traces visible in a lung scan many weeks after, but almost all these cases eventually clear up. An inflamation means that tissue has gone sore. Your body fights off the virus, but your tissue takes longer to recover from the soreness. That is normal and it's not unique to COVID-19. EXACTLY the same would happen after a flu or cold. Hope these facts make it a lot clearer, because the amount of false information spread via social media and some low key fake news websites is astonishing and really harmful.

by kaybe 7y ago

dustinmoris 7y ago

You really need to educate yourself a bit on basics, so that you don't believe every stupid news report. Remember, since the lockdown news papers have nothing else to report on except coronavirus. They must find something new newsworthy every day and therefore a lot of utter shit gets printed. 1. The news article which you originally posted is a summary of the message which the doctor gave in a scubadiving magazine. In that magazine the message is less sensationalist. 2. Not every COVID-19 infection ends up affecting your lungs. COVID-19 in particular starts in your throat (which is why many report a sore throat to begin with). Once it is in your throat the virus multiplies and will eventually penetrate your lungs. However, if you are fit and healthy then normally your body will react quickly and start fighting the virus. In my case I had really high fever for 2 days and on day 3 and after I was getting significantly better. My immune system was able to fight the virus before it even got to my lungs. I had a sore throat, high fever, didn't taste my food, had a cough, fatigue, but I didn't have shortness of breath. If the virus never enters your lungs it can't damage them. 3. Even if the virus enters your lungs it doesn't mean anything yet. It really depends how strong your immune system is in reacting to the virus. If it takes 7-10 days like with old or weakend people then your lungs might get severly infected before your body starts to fight it off, however when you're healthy then you might fight it off before you get a bad lung infection. 4. A lung infection is not unique to COVID-19. It doesn't matter what causes your lung infection, once you have it the symptoms and possible outcomes are the same. Doesn't matter if bronchitis, a flu, a bad cold or COVID-19 caused you to get a lung infection or pneumonia. Anyways, with some medical support even those people will get over it in most cases. However, it is VERY COMMON to have many weeks after a lung infection still some leftover symptoms. Some patients have a cough for two months after a bad cold or flu. It is common that there will still be traces visible in a lung scan many weeks after, but almost all these cases eventually clear up. An inflamation means that tissue has gone sore. Your body fights off the virus, but your tissue takes longer to recover from the soreness. That is normal and it's not unique to COVID-19. EXACTLY the same would happen after a flu or cold. Hope these facts make it a lot clearer, because the amount of false information spread via social media and some low key fake news websites is astonishing and really harmful.