How coronavirus affects the entire body
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The above is just for hospitalized patients.
The scary element is that Covid-19 is still new...they're still researching it. All the infected people that were asymptomatic (barely any symptoms...not even a cough) may have other things just as sinister lurking around the corner years from now all because the person was once Covid-19 positive...in reference to young people or anyone that say its no big deal after once testing positive for Covid-19 or positive but never knew it (most likely the latter).
Serious, there are diseases that have no symptoms / no illness when you first become positive but they secretly begin to wreck havoc on your body after the initial immune system response was successful.
Too many people worry about today or not worry about today after only having mild symptoms...
- They forget about 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now when they've much older.
We may see an entire generation of people years from now on medication to prevent heart attacks, strokes, cancers, early onset of brain diseases and many other diseases that they became susceptible because of Covid-19 years earlier.
On a related topic...many countries are now approaching the clinical trial phases for early possible vaccines that were rushed to the table.
All those volunteers that take the Covid-19 vaccine should be tracked for the remainder of their life. I see a ton of lawsuits 20, 30 and 40 years from now. They should do the same for people that were once Covid-19 positive without any symptoms.
wrbtrader
I once stayed in a friends guest house that had not been used in a long time. Apparently things can grow in hot water tanks if they are not set high enough. At least, that is what we assume was the cause.
I appeared to develop a bad cold and one night coughed up blood. Said I was going to the doctor the next morning, but when woke up... felt fine. Not another symptom for about 6 weeks. Then I started having fevers that came and went. I would be working. A fever would hit and within minutes I'd be unconscious on the floor. Wake up just a few minutes later with a literal pool of sweat on the floor surrounding my body. My family was there once and my temperature was just over 107. You die at 109. Then no problem for a week or so.
Took the doctors 4 months to ID the bacteria -- something related to legionnaires. Had to get multiple shots of the $100 a shot-in-the-butt antibiotic to kick it.
That was years ago and I still get something like hot flashes every now and then -- but mild and fleeting, thank goodness.
In college...we study situations involving these types of illness and Legionnaires was one of them. It's a nasty bug that does some crazy / horrible things to your immune system response.
It's an extremely difficult bug to identify. You need to be at a hospital or lab techs that have had prior experience with it.
Some people become severely ill once infected and may even die. Others, higher percentage may be just asymptomatic carries...no more than a cough or 1 night of fever. There's others that develop illness long after that initial immune response of being just a asymptomatic carrier...
They then become gravely ill that requires hospitalization or worst (e.g. stroke, heart attack, death).
You're very lucky in your unluck (French saying) because many people don't even survive fevers as high as 107.
Brain damage typically begins @ 107 if left untreated (e.g. ice bath).
A temp > 109...people will die or have one of those types of strokes that leaves you partially paralyzed, not able function (e.g. feed yourself). I think the highest recorded fever was 115 with someone able to completely fully recover from.
By the way, big business now with new filters for businesses, schools, in-door malls to battle Coronavirus. I know a guy with a air filter business...his business clientele has 20x the past month and 10x for home / consumers...people that did not wait around for the WHO / government to get their act together and announce the problems about Covid-19 / air filtration systems.
Yet, I'm aware that Covid-19 is still new and the WHO will probably have new findings about it for the next 1 - 2 years.
wrbtrader
It's an extremely difficult bug to identify. You need to be at a hospital or lab techs that have had prior experience with it.
Some people become severely ill once infected and may even die. Others, higher percentage may be just asymptomatic carries...no more than a cough or 1 night of fever. There's others that develop illness long after that initial immune response of being just a asymptomatic carrier...
They then become gravely ill that requires hospitalization or worst (e.g. stroke, heart attack, death).
You're very lucky in your unluck (French saying) because many people don't even survive fevers as high as 107.
Brain damage typically begins @ 107 if left untreated (e.g. ice bath).
A temp > 109...people will die or have one of those types of strokes that leaves you partially paralyzed, not able function (e.g. feed yourself). I think the highest recorded fever was 115 with someone able to completely fully recover from.
By the way, big business now with new filters for businesses, schools, in-door malls to battle Coronavirus. I know a guy with a air filter business...his business clientele has 20x the past month and 10x for home / consumers...people that did not wait around for the WHO / government to get their act together and announce the problems about Covid-19 / air filtration systems.
Yet, I'm aware that Covid-19 is still new and the WHO will probably have new findings about it for the next 1 - 2 years.
wrbtrader
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