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Pneumonia can do very similar stuff. It is not widely known because of antibiotics usage, but even if treated it hits your lungs really hard and you can take up
by lbeltrame 6y ago
Pneumonia can do very similar stuff. It is not widely known because of antibiotics usage, but even if treated it hits your lungs really hard and you can take up to a year before recovering.
A family member had the misfortune of getting one twice (at a distance of many, many years), and it took quite a while to recover.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoInteresting. This is what I mean, I wasn't aware of this (and I suspect most people aren't either). Scary stuff.
- timr 6y agoYeah, most people aren't aware of it, but that's exactly the problem with this object fixation we've been doing as a society...when all you do is look at Covid, you can easily convince yourself that Covid is unusual and terrifying. I personally still have a wheeze (slight, but it's there) from a cold I had years ago. If someone asked me to self-report it as part of a "long-haul rhinovirus" study I might, but nobody ever looks for that.
- craydandy 6y agoI can confirm this. I got a really hard pneumonia few years ago. It took several days in hospital to find an antiobiotic which actually worked, and I was in pretty bad shape in ER when it finally started to work. It took 10 weeks to recover back to work, and over a year before lungs were back to normal, confirmed by x-ray. Pneumonia can be deadly, even for healthy young adult.