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> The Swedes are betting that nobody in the world will be spared from COVID It's also a bet that medical treatments won't improve and a vaccine won't be develo
by freyr 6y ago
> The Swedes are betting that nobody in the world will be spared from COVID
It's also a bet that medical treatments won't improve and a vaccine won't be developed.
- arcticbull 6y agoDeveloped in time, yes. So far, at least using the US as a benchmark, it's not.
- CaptainZapp 6y agoI'm not sure if it's a good idea to use the US as a benchmark for any thing Covid.
- arcticbull 6y agoPoint well taken.
- takeda 6y agoor that many people who survive (including younger ones) will be disabled and unable to work
- rimliu 6y agoHow do you get many younger ones disabled, when younger ones are barely getting ill? It is a desease that affects the older ones much more.
- null_object 6y agoTwo young people I know here in Stockholm have had complications: my team lead (who is in his mid-thirties) had an embolism in his lung after covid. He now has to inject blood-thinning medication twice a day. We’ll see how this works out for him.
- ljf 6y agoI've posted elsewhere but my wife (40yo and in great health) has been suffering from a range of issues since her infection over 100 days ago. She cant climb stairs without getting out of breath. Her covid symptoms for the first two weeks was relatively mild. She is in a Slack group with over 7000 others. Predominantly women over 40 or men 2o to 50. All with serious long term issues after getting covid. It is a small number, but not small enough to wave away.
- arcticbull 6y agoYep but to be fair that isn’t a younger age group. Broadly speaking under-20s are pretty much unaffected. 20-40 aren’t particularly affected either if in good health and without comorbidities. 40+ can be quite seriously affected and over 65s it’s a double digit risk of death. It’s super non-linear. It seems speculatively like this is due to age-linked expression of ACE2.