Officials: Dozens at WA nursing facility show possible coronavirus symptoms

Post by celdon25 » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 11:34 PM UTC

yingw787 wrote: post #65

meesterdude wrote: post #61

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> If you are 70+ or severely ill this IS pretty bad because, unlike the flu, their is literally no defense. If you don’t fit that profile it’s just a bunch of FUD. The 34 year old Chinese doctor who spoke up about the virus died. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795

I’ve heard symptoms relate less with age and more with viral load. The sicker other people are and the more frequently you come in contact with them, the more lethal it becomes. I’m checking reddit r/COVID19, which is a science based discussion forum with cited academic papers and flaired scientists. It started turning into a prepper forum but I think the mods are shutting that down pretty quickly. I go there for my…

Would not trust /r/COVID19 for anything. There's been a lot of criticism on how they are applying censorship, and no transparency around it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_jun...

Post by mbrubeck » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:30 AM UTC

mbrubeck wrote: post #110

waynecochran wrote: post #2

How do you differentiate influenza from covid-19? These folks probably just have the flu. I live in WA state and I had the worst case of the flu I can remember about 3 weeks ago. Did I have covid-19? No way to really know.

> These folks probably just have the flu. An update, ten days later: 26 people (nearly a quarter of the 120 residents of this facility) have died in the past three weeks. Most of those who died have already positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Post-mortem tests are still pending for a handful of the earlier cases. More than half of the surviving residents have also tested positive for coronavirus so far. Most of…

35 residents are now known to have died of COVID-19.

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