Climber
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I've had a cold that came back on me twice, sticking with me for month and a half, all told.
I suspect these are cases where they didn't fully get rid of the virus before it flared back up again.
Do you have it? Covid-19
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I suspect these are cases where they didn't fully get rid of the virus before it flared back up again.
kiwi_outdoors
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saving lives?
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Exactly, which is why we need to keep this thing in perspective. Even among the vulnerable population, the majority of those that get it, survive. We're destroying thousands, if not possibly millions, of lives to protect a relatively small number of people. We can do that if we want, but let's just call it like it is.
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I wonder about this too - it seems like almost all the world leaders have taken a path that saves lives -but at an unknown cost to our society. Its a huge experiment, which will be studied and argued about for decades.
My tendency would have been to let the disease run its course - we have far too many people on the plant - Mother Nature is trying to thin the crop.
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Exactly, which is why we need to keep this thing in perspective. Even among the vulnerable population, the majority of those that get it, survive. We're destroying thousands, if not possibly millions, of lives to protect a relatively small number of people. We can do that if we want, but let's just call it like it is.
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I wonder about this too - it seems like almost all the world leaders have taken a path that saves lives -but at an unknown cost to our society. Its a huge experiment, which will be studied and argued about for decades.
My tendency would have been to let the disease run its course - we have far too many people on the plant - Mother Nature is trying to thin the crop.
littlebeast
get it while it's easy
all of the numbers are probably similarly skewed - including death rates. e.g. someone i know had a family member who passed away recently, and the COD on the death certificate was acute respiratory failure. she had reason to believe (and the medical authorities should have also) that it was undiagnosed COVID-19. she had to fight VERY hard to get a postmortem test done and it came back positive. the COD stands as it was though - and is not included in the COVID-19 mortality numbers. it’s impossible to imagine that is an isolated incident.
Sharky
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Sharky
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The cause of death will probably always be listed as acute respiratory or pulmonary failure secondary to...… whatever the person had. Death certificates read all the same. Cause of death secondary to disease process X for period Y. Sometimes they list disease in the first line, but does it really matter? I look at them all the time.
Climber
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It only matters if they were ultimately done in by covid-19 and it doesn't get counted.
Granted, many of these people could have perished just as easily with flu/cold.
Perhaps the doctors here can give an estimate in the percentage of people dying from this disease would have likely perished anyways.
With less than 10% exposure, so far, from everything I've seen, we should be able to at least estimate a ballpark figure.
Sharky
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Thr infected figures are going to be through the roof if they ever get around to testing everyone (which they wont, because why would you). Some santa clara study puts infecrions in the 40-80,000 range there... but i believe that is an extrapolation of a 3300 sample group
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
So, I've been fine the last couple weeks almost, but I'm starting to cough again.
Did you ever get tested the first time around? I can't remember. Fingers crossed.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
Neither my wife nor I were tested. Our daughter was tested and the results were negative, but I'm led to believe that false negatives are common. She had a fever of 102+ for several days, and still has a lingering cough.
Pelon
Lurker
I got my results in 24 hours from SF Color Test. It's free if you live in SF. Just make an appointment online and drive up.
I think it took my wife 5 or 6 days to get results. Unless the facility does in house rapid tests, it seems to take that long (minimum 2 days) to get results. Sucks.
Good luck to you guys. If you have it, hoping it's mild.
mrzuzzo
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Thanks for the well wishes!
Wife feels better now, kid seems to be better too, I still feel like shit. Could be flu, a virus, covid, or anything else really. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way to differentiate covid from other viruses.
To top it all off we are living in a hotel since we got booted out due to the fires. Couldn't have come at a better time!
Wife feels better now, kid seems to be better too, I still feel like shit. Could be flu, a virus, covid, or anything else really. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way to differentiate covid from other viruses.
To top it all off we are living in a hotel since we got booted out due to the fires. Couldn't have come at a better time!
Climber
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Test your sense of smell.
The people I know who have had it all lost their sense of smell if they had symptoms.