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Err, before everyone gets too excited, it would be nice to know what the equivalent study done on comparable influenza patients would look like. If it looks sim
by ghufran_syed 6y ago
Err, before everyone gets too excited, it would be nice to know what the equivalent study done on comparable influenza patients would look like. If it looks similar, then we probably don't have much to worry about, if the covid picture is more severe or more frequent, then we might have cause to worry
- claudeganon 6y agoCardiologists are already concerned beyond what they see with influenza patients (which can also cause heart damage), especially because large amounts of viral replication has been found in the hearts of deceased patients: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768915 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoThis virus has nothing in common with the flu, except being a respiratory virus. I don't mean this in terms of survival rates, although it's transparently obvious that diminishing the danger is the purpose of this talking point. But even ignoring that, there is just no reason why COVID should be compared with the flu and not, say, Hepatitis A (B or C), Ebola, HPV. Route of infection (here: respiratory) correlates welll with the effectiveness of various countermeasures. Symptoms are still somewhat similar but less so, with COVID causing rare symptoms like anosmia but relatively little fever and almost no rhinitis. It's completely useless for pharmaceutical treatments as well as for predicting severity, which for respiratory (and every other class) ranges from benign to certain death.