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Convalescence in hospitalized patients (about 20 % of patients will end up in hospital) is extremely protracted. You will end up with a torrent of people unable
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Convalescence in hospitalized patients (about 20 % of patients will end up in hospital) is extremely protracted. You will end up with a torrent of people unable to work for months if not years if the disease continues to spread. The recent JAMA paper from Italy (this one: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351) is frankly terrifying.
- AlgorithmicTime 6y agoMaybe 20% of people with symptoms (though that's likely an overestimate). The number of people with a COVID infection is likely 10-12x the number of symptomatic cases.