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Covid-19 is a very strange disease, it seems like it is amplified either way (severe vs. non-severe) depending on health. This seems different from the flu as t

Covid-19 is a very strange disease, it seems like it is amplified either way (severe vs. non-severe) depending on health. This seems different from the flu as the flu hits everyone very hard, the elderly/sickly especially hard. With covid some people who have it, do not and will not have any symptoms which cannot be said for the flu. I feel like the insulin marker data is an albatross, having high TyG means alot of systems in your body are not doing well, and the virus attacks weakness, it(covid-19) is also found to produce extreme clotting so that is probably why people with diabetes/heart disease and hypertension are all at high risk.

sudoaza 6y ago
Yes from what I heard having metabolic issues also is correlated with less development of antibodies after immunization.
nradov 6y ago
Asymptomatic infections are about as common with influenza as with SARS-CoV-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ Some influenza strains hit young, healthy patients harder than the elderly by triggering a cytokine storm. This was particularly bad in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/
Synaesthesia 6y ago
It certainly is weird. I read an article which said doctors around the world are often scratching their head at what they’re seeing. It can attack the rest of your organs, not just your lungs.
sacred_numbers 6y ago
Actually, this is not exactly true. There are actually a lot of people who are infected with the flu who are asymptomatic[1]. Based on my amateur research it does appear that the difference in severity between age groups is more pronounced for COVID-19 than for the flu, though. Part of this may be sampling bias, however, since we are probably catching far more asymptomatic COVID-19 cases than asymptomatic flu cases. [1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/

sudoaza 6y ago

Yes from what I heard having metabolic issues also is correlated with less development of antibodies after immunization.

nradov 6y ago

Asymptomatic infections are about as common with influenza as with SARS-CoV-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ Some influenza strains hit young, healthy patients harder than the elderly by triggering a cytokine storm. This was particularly bad in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/

Synaesthesia 6y ago

It certainly is weird. I read an article which said doctors around the world are often scratching their head at what they’re seeing. It can attack the rest of your organs, not just your lungs.

sacred_numbers 6y ago

Actually, this is not exactly true. There are actually a lot of people who are infected with the flu who are asymptomatic[1]. Based on my amateur research it does appear that the difference in severity between age groups is more pronounced for COVID-19 than for the flu, though. Part of this may be sampling bias, however, since we are probably catching far more asymptomatic COVID-19 cases than asymptomatic flu cases. [1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/