Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

More reason for pride among terror. Dr. Anthony Fauci is a product of Jesuit education

 

Pensacola has tested 800 as of Friday. The fists rests were taken Monday. I don’t think a singe results has been provided. They were supposed to start getting them today.

 

I wonder what percentage of people who contract this will have a mild case or not even show symptoms? To me, that's a number that could only be guessed at based on those who are symptomatic.

 

Symptom Progression of COVID-19 from onset to serious for those who get serious cases.

Link says 15% progress to serious. 5% progress to critical. 80% are mild mild.

A day-by-day breakdown of coronavirus symptoms shows how the disease, COVID-19, goes from bad to worse

• Day 1: Patients run a fever. They may also experience fatigue, muscle pain, and a dry cough. A small minority may have had diarrhea or nausea one or two days before.
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• Day 5: Patients may have difficulty breathing, especially if they are older or have a preexisting health condition.

• Day 8: At this point, patients with severe cases develop acute respiratory distress syndrome, an illness that occurs when fluid builds up the lungs. ARDS is often fatal.
• Day 10: If patients have worsening symptoms, this is the time in the disease's progression when they're most likely to be admitted to the ICU. These patients probably have more abdominal pain and appetite loss than patients with milder cases. Only a small fraction die: The fatality rate has hovered at about 3%.

Coronavirus symptoms start slowly, then might worsen quickly
"Patients tend to have symptoms for about a week before either getting better, or getting really sick," said Dr. Joshua Denson, a pulmonary medicine and critical care physician at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans.

Denson, who estimated he's treated 15 to 20 patients with the coronavirus, described that first phase of the illness as "a slow burn."

They say, 'Hey, you know, I think I'm getting over this,' and then within 20 to 24 hours, they've got fevers, severe fatigue, worsening cough and shortness of breath," said Ohl, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "Then they get hospitalized."

Some critically ill patients who've needed mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit have been able to come off the oxygen eventually, and get better. And overall, data on coronavirus cases from China and Europe have shown that more than 80 percent of patients have a mild form of the illness and recover.

 

What town are you in? We just had two cases ties to UNCW here. (One student traveled abroad and did not return to Wilmington, but went through Charlotte and then to their home town upon return from overseas.)

 

See above. I just posted on this. If it gets bad, the disease progresses. Our brains must be on the same wave.

 

Blue staters don’t care about red staters.

What better way to limit conservatives then have them die off.














(Jk)

 

NBC link I posted reports someone who brought it back from Florida.

 

I have a friend I converse with who lives in Wales. We met on a chess website several years ago and they are basically following the same path we are. Hunkering down, avoiding contact with others, ordering their groceries, etc.

He, like myself, has respiratory issues along with approaching 70 years in age. I am sharing info I have learned on this site with him in the hope it will help. I still want to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

 

I read it right before you put this up. Appreciate the info and as I wrote in a subsequent post I am sharing it.

 

Really important that you isolate. When things calm down, get a masks etc.

 

So far less than 2000 people hospitalized in the United States.
Good sign IRT what we have been hearing about severity.
The COVID Tracking Project

 

@tilly, is there any way that link can be a sticky at the top?

 

Anyone heard from LimeyGator since he came out as positive? I wouldn't exactly say "mild" from what I've read. Some are but it seems the vast majority of people start out mild with a good % ended up with difficulty breathing then getting better about 11 days in. Like having the flu followed by bronchitis. I've had that once before and it was tough to breathe but it was manageable. Either people are wimps or this one is bit more difficult to shake. I'm hoping for the wimps. Some doctors are prescribing inhalers to assist those with breathing problems until they get better. The 20% that don't get better is when the virus gets into the lungs and triggers the next wave. That's nearly 2 weeks in and by the the person is already exhausted. That's why the elderly have been more likely to die because this virus just wears you down. They say the average time spent in the hospital if you are in the 20% category is 2 weeks to 6 months. Some of the thousands Chinese patients that came down with it in December are still on ventilators. The vast majority of the 20% will have reduced lung function for the remainder of their lives and many will be on oxygen forever.

 

If you look into the numbers, that is because most states aren't reporting the hospitalizations. Almost all hospitalized patients are in New York, which is reporting that stat. I know for a fact that there are a number of hospitalized people in the New Orleans area and they have no info on there for Louisiana hospitalizations. Washington, Louisiana, California, and Illinois are all missing from the hospitalization numbers.

 

This is good news, results in 45 minutes:

First rapid, on-site test approved by the FDA:

FDA authorizes first rapid, 'point of care' coronavirus test

 

I posted links to the percentages of serious versus mild cases in post 2547 plus the disease progression. If anyone hears from @LimeyGator or he can see and post, we all would love to hear how he is doing

 

Florida too