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not really typical for healthy researchers in their 30s to end up in the hospital with seasonal illness symptoms though.
by MarkMarine 3y ago
not really typical for healthy researchers in their 30s to end up in the hospital with seasonal illness symptoms though.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoPeople go directly to hospitals for primary care in China. It's not the same as the US, where people go to a general practitioner first.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoPerfectly normal for regular, healthy folks to occasionally come down with seasonal flu. Sometimes people get sick, it happens. The issue was that a whole bunch of them did, rapidly, and in non-trivial numbers.
- hwillis 3y agoDid they "end up in the hospital" or did they go to the hospital to get a diagnosis? I live in a city, and my PCP is in the local hospital. "seasonal illness symptoms" sounds FAR more like they were just sick and went to the doctor, like anyone else would. For medicine.
- MarkMarine 3y agoI read it was hospitalized, but who knows with this kind of reporting.
- ipqk 3y agoAnd what exactly does "hospital" mean in China? I know in India a hospital can basically be a small clinic, not unlike an urgent care center in the USA.
- hwillis 3y agoThis is a very large, very modern city. I'm very willing to believe they went to real hospitals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan#/media/File:Wuhan_Yangtze_River_Bridge_in_2020.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan#/media/File:Wuhan_Yangtz...