It's remarkable that humanity can globally track such things.
He was only a few years older than me.
How does the coronavirus kill? I tried searching, but the first five results were all paywalled. I'm curious about what specifically makes the coronavirus deadly compared to the flu.
The Wuhan coronavirus appears to cause pneumonia in two ways: when the virus takes hold in the lungs, and through secondary bacterial infections, however, the first way appears to be more common.
Although it can be difficult to determine whether organ damage from the Wuhan coronavirus is a result of direct viral infection or indirect “collateral damage” from the immune system, initial reports suggested around 11% of people severely ill with the Wuhan coronavirus experienced sepsis with multi-organ failure.
https://theconversation.com/how-does-the-wuhan-coronavirus-c...
I am not a medical practitioner nor researcher and have no understanding of the virus. I make no representation as to the veracity of this source lacking the means to independently verify it.
[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC420028/
[1]: https://www.scmp.com/article/433797/28-sars-survivors-have-b...
Somebody isn’t telling the truth, and I’d bet it is the Chinese government.
The 11% with multiple organ failure is referring to the first 99 people with severe infection.
The 2% reported fatality rate is for everyone that acquires the virus.
Many of the infected are not "severely ill".
The further kicker is that the model it aligns to is quadratic where an actual virus spread is exponential. So, the Chinese are not only making up numbers and following an ideal model exactly but can't even figure out to use a valid ideal model to generate those fake numbers from.
See more here:
And that says nothing for why the data matches up exactly to an ideal model and furthermore that model (quadratic) isn't correct for the spread of viruses (which is exponential).
If you look at data from outside of China, you can see a regular jagged line full of noise which you would expect for real data. The data from China stands out like a mannequin in a lineup.
The source is Taiwan News so probably not impartial.
The number of confirmed cases was in the low hundreds, and yet there were confirmed cases popping up all around the world.
That's simply statistically impossible.
I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't really have over a million people infected by now.
Once your immune system detects it, you're going to get the standard flu/cold symptoms (fever, runny nose, etc).
During this period your body is actively losing its protection due to putting so much resources into fighting the viral infection in your body.
Other deadlier diseases can now enter your body and essentially hide behind the fact that your immune system can't respond to everything at once.
So you get more complications as you're sick for longer.
The viral infection itself does have an impact on organs, specifically the lungs, but it's usually secondary complications that kill.
For more information the most recent dozen or so videos by John Campbell at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg will take you through material published in peer reviewed medical journals that explain transmission models and an in depth review of some early cases.