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2020-03-23 Home Front: Culture Wars
‘Holy Shit, This Is Not The Flu’: Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19... Even In Young Patients
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Posted by Iblis 2020-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 ProPublica story from the 21st. Not seeing it on ZH as of 0430 Eastern. Also, ain't got no hair title.
Posted by Uneregum Borgia7141 2020-03-23 04:33||   2020-03-23 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Most staff concluded that he was overreacting

People just don't exponential growth, let alone density effects.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-23 04:40||   2020-03-23 04:40|| Front Page Top

#3 And speaking of more relevant, something-for-everybody Professor Longhair tunes...

Posted by Uneregum Borgia7141 2020-03-23 04:40||   2020-03-23 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 People just don't understand exponential growth, let alone density effects.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-23 04:42||   2020-03-23 04:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, how weird. When I read that aloud a moment ago, the "understand" automagically filled itself in without me noticing.

Been thinking for days that the famous curve graph should've been captioned a bit more intensely, as in, "Above this line, between this point and that, the folks you infect, and quite possibly you, and maybe -- way to go, genius! -- the nurses and docs your pleading eyes will have been begging to save you from suffocating... are... SCREWED.
Posted by Uneregum Borgia7141 2020-03-23 05:02||   2020-03-23 05:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Embarrassed apologies for above posts, made with Iblis's ZH article already opened in another tab. Skulking off to sleep now.
Posted by Uneregum Borgia7141 2020-03-23 07:44||   2020-03-23 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Headline replaced.

Guys, for whatever reason, Rantburg will delete all text after a double quote in the headline, so please — in headlines only — replace double quotes with single quotes, aka apostophes.

For the moderators,
trailing wife
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-23 08:13||   2020-03-23 08:13|| Front Page Top

#8 😎
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-23 08:15||   2020-03-23 08:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Many are relatively young, in their 40s and 50s, and have minimal, if any, preexisting conditions in their charts.
Probably in a year or so they will establish some genetic characteristic for the susceptible ones that they all share. Another example of the fact that no Individual Person necessarily responds well to Average Patient Treatment™...

So all Rantburgers need to understand their own needs first.
Posted by magpie 2020-03-23 10:41||   2020-03-23 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 New Orleans had held Mardi Gras celebrations just two weeks before its first patient, with more than a million revelers on its streets.

It was the bead necklaces, they're agents of sin I tell you! /s
Posted by Charles 2020-03-23 11:54||   2020-03-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, here's one little bit of good news:



Olga Kurylenko, Bond Girl in ‘Quantum of Solace,’ Has ‘Completely Recovered’ from Coronavirus
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-23 15:12||   2020-03-23 15:12|| Front Page Top

#12 "Many are relatively young, in their 40s and 50s, and have minimal, if any, preexisting conditions in their charts." Eventually we will find they are all habitual vapors but didn't count that when asked if they smoked.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-03-23 15:50||   2020-03-23 15:50|| Front Page Top

#13 rjschwarz:

The idea that this only affects the old and infirm is based on the China numbers. IIRC, China did not report any deaths for individuals under 50 years of age. In the US and Europe about half the deaths are under 50. Make of that what you like, but my gut is that the Chinese numbers are pure fiction.
Posted by Iblis 2020-03-23 16:37||   2020-03-23 16:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Not good. From harvardtothebighouse.com. "COVID-19 seems to use antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) to much more efficiently enter into cells, and then become much more virulent since this enhancement hijacks the body’s preexisting immune response to coronavirus infections and allows easier entry. However whether or not people have been exposed to a coronavirus infection before, once it’s been circulating in a population for long enough the Wuhan Strain may be able to reinfect its own past hosts and use this molecular hijacking on antibodies left from its own previous infection to become far more virulent, regardless of whether or not someone has been exposed to other coronaviruses before COVID-19. And early reporting from Chinese doctors indicates that re-infections of the Wuhan Strain are far more lethal than the first."
Posted by Glenmore 2020-03-23 16:52||   2020-03-23 16:52|| Front Page Top

#15 ^^^ Why yes, this topic was discussed very early in the outbreak. This virus has been enhanced, and its lethality upgraded. It’s one of the things they are not telling us, officially.
Posted by Albemarle Bourbon4037 2020-03-23 19:29||   2020-03-23 19:29|| Front Page Top

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