This is what happens when you get the coronavirus

[malaise]

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615176/an-inside-report-of-what-happens-when-you-get-the-coronavirus/
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The Wuhan doctors, led by Zhiyong Peng at the critical care department at Zhognan Hospital of Wuhan University, say about 40% of the people they treated actually caught the infection at their hospital, including 40 health-care professionals and 17 patients who were already there for surgeries or other reasons.

They said 4.3% of the patients died and about 34% got better and left the hospital, while the rest were still being treated. Outside of China, the death rate appears to be much lower, but in Wuhan doctors are clearly struggling. The city has been under a lockdown quarantine since last month.

Early symptoms: The most common symptom of the coronavirus is a fever, which nearly everyone gets, followed by fatigue and dry cough. A few people also experienced diarrhea or nausea a day or two before any other symptoms.

Getting to the hospital: It took about seven days from first symptoms for people to check into the hospital, by which time many were having trouble breathing, say the Wuhan doctors. It wasn’t clear if their patients waited to seek help or were among those initially turned away in overcrowded conditions.

Confirming infection: The test for the virus is a throat swab, which is analyzed with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to identify its telltale genetic material.

CAT scan Wuhan coronavirus
A scan of the lungs of a patient infected by the Wuhan coronavirus shows a characteristic "ground glass" appearance.

Chest scans: Some patients put through a CAT scanner showed spots of shadows in their lungs, what doctors call a “ground glass” appearance.

Getting to the ICU: The Chinese team said a quarter of their patients ended up in the intensive care unit, mostly because of acute respiratory distress syndrome, or “ARDS.” That’s when the lungs fill with fluid and lose the ability to carry oxygen. That can affect other organs, like the kidneys, and cause death. The chance of ending up in the ICU was higher for people who were already weak.

It affects older people more often: While older people tended to have more serious diseases, this hospital saw patients as young as 22 and as old as 92. The median age was 56.

[certainot]

1. thanks

everyone needs a thermometer handy

[malaise]

2. Better to know than not to know

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Well, I've been told for decades that they see 'spots' on my lungs due

to scars from pneumonia. Had it 3 times as a baby.

[malaise]

5. Wow!

A good friend of mine suddenly developed asthma in his 70s. They thought it was COPD but he's just paying for decades of smoking.

[OhNo-Really]

27. Me too

Does this put us at higher or lower risk I wonder?

[appalachiablue]

4. Thanks Malaise, the awful reality..

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. K&R. Thanks, Malaise......bookmarked!

Kentucky officials confirmed our first case on Friday.

KY.............

[malaise]

8. Damn - none confirmed here yet

but there was a death in Latin America yesterday.
You would think that M$Greedia would be giving us this basic information.

[gademocrat7]

7. Thank you for this information.

We need to know the science based facts on this virus.

[Chainfire]

9. That can't be right

Lord Trump says the death rate is more like 1%. This has to be more of the Democrat's hoax to attack the President.

(Thank you for the OP. That was actually helpful information; something we haven't seen from our government)

[malaise]

10. Well we know he knows more than everyone in every

sphere of life - he's a fucking idiot!

[Cracklin Charlie]

19. He's got a knack for it.

Dotard has lots of knacks!

[2naSalit]

11. Important info!!

Thank you!

[TheRealistRealist]

12. Thanks so much for posting this n/t

[getagrip_already]

13. Note the line about having been turned away prior because the hospital was busy....

We are already seeing this. Urgent care clinics are telling people not to come in if they haven't been to a stricken region or come in contact with a confirmed case.

Community infected individuals will get very sick before they are seen.

[malaise]

14. It's time for a Dear Seniors letter

to all those Fux loving, Don the peepee Con loving golden agers letting them know he doesn't give a fuck if they die.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Thank you. I passed this along.

[Javaman]

16. Yay I'm 56

☹️

[certainot]

18. do you have contact with anyone who's 80 or 90?

[Javaman]

24. Yup😑nt

[certainot]

25. i do regularly. while i'm not high risk i later realized how dumb i was to

get talked into having dinner and a beer at the local joint, which probably had 50-100 customers including tourists going through all day, and the owner was handling glasses, credit cards, and cash from the bar all day.....

[spanone]

17. K&R...

[AllaN01Bear]

20. thanks . bookmarked . this is more than what the thing in the white house has said at his presser .

[liberalmuse]

21. This is important.

And it’s worse than we've been led to believe, but of course we don’t have enough experience with it here to know. That line about being turned away jumped out and waived a big red flag. I hope more media start reporting this type of information instead of giving more airtime to let dear leadhead spew his dangerous lies.

[Danascot]

22. If you get corona virus wouldn't you experience

malaise?



I'll see myself out ...

[malaise]

23. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

You win the thread

[donkeypoofed]

26. Take Vit D AND lots of Vit C !!!

It's all we have.

Vit D3/K2 drops , Vit C as ascorbic acid.