Anyone have Coronavirus on the boards? If so fill us in on severity.

Age of guy that died? Health of the guy?

Kenyan girls are luscious wrote:

Age of guy that died? Health of the guy?

Late 50’s.

Had respiratory health issues.

For those of you who have coronavirus, or think you have it, Kenneth Copeland can heal you through your computer screen.

Just believe in the tax free status of the Lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU5hjBtDkjE

We're all more likely to have had coronavirus than we think - though maybe not the new one. Do these symptoms sound familiar?

"Along with HCoV-229E, a species in the Alphacoronavirus genus, HCoV-OC43 are among the known viruses that cause the common cold. Both viruses can cause severe lower respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia in infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals"

SARS-cov-2 is in the same genus as this one. I was saying a while back maybe having had this one provides some immunity to the new one. Might check and see if researchers have looked into it, but I doubt it... they'd have to cook up a big rigorous study, not practical just yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43

Thanks! I’m pretty much better, wife and daughter are on the mend. Who knows what it is...maybe the beer virus, maybe the flu.

It would be nice to test just to know whether Ilwe can be out in civilization or not though...

By the way, I’ve tried to run twice and was exhausted. My breathing went through the roof and I actually had to stop a couple times. That’s not important AT ALL but this is a running site so....

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Seriously mate? wrote:

90% of infected people won't even realize they got infected. Which of course poses a problem because you can still spread it to other people.

You can still spread something that 90% of people won't even notice? Sounds serious.

I know, right! Terrible.

aacke wrote:

wejo wrote:

If corona has been in Seattle for months and not killed that many people that would be great news but then how would you explain what is happening inItaly?

Seems like people could have had another illness in February.

Well, the average age of persons dying from COVID-19 in Italy is over 80 years old. I don't know the statistics of people dying in Seattle, but I would assume a larger portion of elderly people affected in Italy would be the main cause. Hopefully, that is the case.

Italy has a very old population compared with other countries. Also Italy, as the US ., Doesn't have many tests. South Korea has a very young population and numerous testing capability.

Italy has 60 million people crammed into a little area.

US population is in clusters

Pays to live in the midwest right now

So nobody on this board has it.

Or knows they have it anyway.

Not quite a pandemic yet I'd say

Ultra > Marathon wrote:

I have had a dry cough, runny nose, and headache for 3 days. No fever. I doubt it’s Corona. My wife had a fever and cough and my son has a fever and a cough ?.

Whatever it is it’s not bad enough to call in sick at work.

But is it bad enough to spread to others who spread it to more others and get to someone who gets very adverse reactions to it?

Do we go along based on doubts and hunches?

I guess we have to since tests are not widely available.

Report on CNN last night noting that hospitalizations in France have not followed the "old and weak" pattern being discussed here. I cannot remember the numbers exactly, but something like 50% of the hospitalizations with Corona there were under the age of 50.

The information coming from China and Iran has been opaque but the information coming from Italy, Spain and France appears to be reliable and alarming IMO. A peek at the Worldometer curve this morning has me as worried as I was yesterday about this.

I strongly believe that every person in this country who is out and about, beyond what is utterly necessary, and not staying at home, is contributing to a looming crisis.

wejo wrote:

Anyone know what the false negative ratio for the flu and Corona are? Rapid test for flu can be like 50% I believe.

Not even close to 50%. It's about 15% that come back as a false negative. 50%? You'd be better off flipping a coint at that point. No one would buy the test.

Consequently, it's a nose swab and my hospital system charged me $192 for it... and our healthcare system is one of the best in the world... riiiiiight.

JesseIsGarbage wrote:

Report on CNN last night noting that hospitalizations in France have not followed the "old and weak" pattern being discussed here. I cannot remember the numbers exactly, but something like 50% of the hospitalizations with Corona there were under the age of 50.

France has a smoking epidemic, not a coronavirus epidemic. Sorry these people wanted to destroy their lungs and a virus pushed them to hospitalization. At least they had some good years where smoking made them look super cool.

Giles Corey wrote:

So nobody on this board has it.

Or knows they have it anyway.

Not quite a pandemic yet I'd say

Like our sport, we're not a large sample of Americans.

wejo wrote:

If corona has been in Seattle for months and not killed that many people that would be great news but then how would you explain what is happening inItaly?

Seems like people could have had another illness in February.

The biggest difference is that 3/4 of our fatal cases have been in a single nursing home with most victims in their 70s/80s and health-compromised. Something happened in that facility to create a "perfect storm" of infection and death. I would not be surprised to see the rate drop in the next few weeks as that source depletes. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

The comorbidities that Lombardy has seem to be age, pollution and smoking, possibly combined with social intimacy due to culture. Also an apparent high tourism rate from China (as mentioned elsewhere, Seattle has great contact exchange with China due to business and family ties)

Our February disease was highly contagious with identical symptoms to covid. I have had many bronchial infections throughout my life and this one was unique in it's contagiousness, dry cough after fever and very little sinus involvement.

Non Washington State death rate at about 1% of diagnosed (so lower if un-diagnosed is thrown in). Can anyone site a case yet, of a healthy, under 70, non-smoking, adult has died in the US.? I've read cases (see south carolina and kentucky) where any of their various maladies could have been the cause of death, but it was counted as coronavirus.

Conundrum wrote:

Italy has a very old population compared with other countries. Also Italy, as the US ., Doesn't have many tests. South Korea has a very young population and numerous testing capability.

Factcheck: false - Don't single Italy out - Germany and Japan have higher median ages. Population age isn't the main factor

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

France has a smoking epidemic, not a coronavirus epidemic. Sorry these people wanted to destroy their lungs and a virus pushed them to hospitalization. At least they had some good years where smoking made them look super cool.

Factcheck: false

French people smoke a very similar number of cigarettes on average per year as Americans

Thank you factcheck for calling out their BS.