the reports show people of all ages dying or barely clinging to life while there seems to be a lot of other people who just get a bad cold from it. it’s weird how this virus works
No it’s wierd how the human immune sysytem works, we have all been exposed to a least one of the corona virii - the common cold, we may have also been infected by other bugs from the same virus which may have given some of us a partial immunity. however Figures comming out of the US seem to indicate that your social level also has a big part to play. If you are well paid, well fed and reasonably healthy your channces of survival are much greater. People on wlefare or in porrly paid jobs are far more likely to die.
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I think the problem is that we simply don’t know what the virus does. It was believed that it mainly affected lung cells, causing fatal acute respiratory distress. But today I’ve heard (from Channel 4 News) that kidney failure has occurred in many more cases than expected, which may have been acerbated by dehydrating patients (which helps with breathing). Medical staff are increasing the hydration supplied to patients in respiratory distress in the hope that the survival rate can be improved.
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It does seem a bit weird, looking at it from the now, but we’ll not get a clear picture of what’s happening until it’s over and the final counts are in. My cousin and her dad have it (found out, today).
Sometimes it seems like there are racial susceptibilities, but again it’s hard to tell if certain races are more prone to suffering badly, especially given cultural differences and the responses of the respective governing bodies.
How Spain’s coronavirus outbreak got so bad so fast
After a slow response from the government and the public, Spaniards now say “I will resist.”
I suppose that in the US, the starker socio-economic-race contrasts will colour the visible outcome.
The only real lesson that seems to be clear is that isolating action needs to happen as early as possible, otherwise the spread becomes overwhelming.
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