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Well, as a 67-year-old retired RN with the beginning of diabetes, I don't look forward to having a severe reaction and yes, I realize I am risk for same. But it's not Ebola, it's not radioactive. Without antibody testing, we're just not gonna know.
I visited that site for my mother who is on SS but doesn't make enough to file but it said SS retirees who don't file are already on their database & don't need to fill out the online form.
They seem to be finding that the people most likely to die from covid seem to have mostly: obesity; diabetes; hypertension; cardiac issues. What is surprising for a virus attacking the lungs is that pulmonary issues like asthma don't seem to be a predictor for mortality. (Obviously over 60yo is also a determinant.)
They seem to be finding that the people most likely to die from covid seem to have mostly: obesity; diabetes; hypertension; cardiac issues. What is surprising for a virus attacking the lungs is that pulmonary issues like asthma don't seem to be a predictor for mortality. (Obviously over 60yo is also a determinant.)
Do you have a link or article or such about asthma not being predictive? I did think that lung compromises were involved in more severe illness, if not mortality, or need for vents/hospitalization. No link available, though, not trying to second-guess the poster.
Not the best of sources (certainly not), but a source(s). And it does not say 'more likely to die', but rather more likely to be susceptible to the virus, and more likely to have complications.
“Happel said already having lung disease can present challenges for people who contract COVID-19.
What we think is that people who have underlying structural lung disease are both more susceptible to infection by the virus and at the same time less likely to be able to deal with any given degree of dysfunction because their lungs are already injured, or already abnormal,” he said.
"And so the concern, particularly, for people who have chronic heart or chronic lung disease is when they get the COVID-pneumonia they simply don't have the same amount of reserve as a healthy person of their age to be able to deal with the lung flooding, the fevers, the tremendous systemic inflammation that COVID can generate in these people,” he said.
The CDC says people with moderate or severe asthma may be at higher risk of getting very sick from COVID-19.”
"The lung disease, which makes breathing difficult, is among conditions that appear to make people more vulnerable to the severe form of COVID-19, the illness caused by the bug, according to the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Still, there’s little data right now about how exactly the new coronavirus affects people with asthma, though the condition has been known to worsen with other strains of coronavirus, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America noted."
[quote=matisse12;57846249]Not the best of sources (certainly not), but a source(s). And it does not say 'more likely to die', but rather more likely to be susceptible to the virus, and more likely to have complications.
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Thank you for the references.
I have one friend hunkered down in Honolulu who has been hospitalized for bronchitis and another in Italy near Siena who has had collapsed lungs in the distant past from infections (both are 67). I certainly assumed that they are in much greater vulnerability for severe or lethal illness than someone without those compromises.
The man in Italy fully intends to stay at his comfortable country property until there is a vaccine. I don't think the friend in Honolulu has thought that far ahead. Both have plenty of money to do whatever they decide.
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