The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 202 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances: the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan, and the Holland America's MS Zaandam cruise ship.
USA cases are 188,530.
Deaths 3,889.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Medcrams Youtube Update #46 had some interesting information about how COVID-19 may suppress the immune system during the initial infection. This delays the bodies ability to fight off the virus. The video shows examples of exposure to hot or cold temperatures causing the bodies immune system to increase in activity.
SOURCE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRwnhfWXxo
One report indicates that the true case fatality rate (CFR) may be as low as 0.66% when considering the many people (50% to 86%) who have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus without being identified as having it.
With the number of cases increasing each day, you might be asking yourself what actually happens if you’re diagnosed with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Or maybe you’re wondering what happens to you if you think you might have it.
Naturally, people are curious when something is unfamiliar. Will you need to be hospitalized? Will you need a ventilator? Or will it feel like your typical cold?
USA cases are 188,530.
Deaths 3,889.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Medcrams Youtube Update #46 had some interesting information about how COVID-19 may suppress the immune system during the initial infection. This delays the bodies ability to fight off the virus. The video shows examples of exposure to hot or cold temperatures causing the bodies immune system to increase in activity.
SOURCE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRwnhfWXxo
One report indicates that the true case fatality rate (CFR) may be as low as 0.66% when considering the many people (50% to 86%) who have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus without being identified as having it.
A handful of widely circulated Facebook posts have asserted that people in the United States likely contracted the coronavirus as early as last fall.
“Who got sick in November or December and it lasted 10 to 14 days, with the worst cough that wouldn’t go away?” the posts say. “If you can answer, yes, then you probably had the coronavirus. There were no tests and the flu test would come back negative anyway. They called it a severe upper respiratory infection.”
Naturally, people are curious when something is unfamiliar. Will you need to be hospitalized? Will you need a ventilator? Or will it feel like your typical cold?
Paris (AFP) - Middle-aged people, and not just the elderly, have a dramatically higher risk of dying or developing serious illness from COVID-19, new research from Britain showed Tuesday.
The findings came in a new comprehensive analysis of virus cases in mainland China.
Researchers from Britain analysed more than 3,600 confirmed COVID-19 cases as well as data from hundreds of passengers repatriated from the outbreak city of Wuhan.
They found that age was a key determining factor in serious infections, with nearly one in five over-80s requiring hospitalisation, compared to around 1 percent among people under 30.
Taking into account estimates of the number of cases that may not have been clinically confirmed -- that is, mild or asymptomatic infections -- the data showed the hospitalisation rate of patients in their fifties was 8.2 percent.
The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, estimated that the mortality rate from confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China was 1.38 percent.
If unconfirmed cases were taken into account, the death rate dropped to 0.66 percent.
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