Some quick googling also shows that young people without pre-existing conditions can die from the regular flu.
Twenty-one year old with no pre-existing conditions dies from Coronavirus
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#32It seems that anecdotal evidence of young people dying of COVID-19 is the trend of the moment. Not sure if it's just cheap clickbait or the goal is to make younger generations to actually care about social distancing. The deal is that we are dealing with the power of large numbers. You can cherry-pick whatever case you want to fit your narrative. It does not mean its relevant information.
Anecdotally, my parents keep bringing up this narrative every time we talk on the phone. I've reminded them that while me and my fiance dutifully haven't left the house since last Sunday they've happily gone to the grocery store multiple times, attended a funeral, and had wine at their neighbor's house. They also refused to stop babysitting my niece and nephew until I called my brother and convinced him to stop dropping them off. But no, young people are the reckless ones.
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#33It seems that anecdotal evidence of young people dying of COVID-19 is the trend of the moment. Not sure if it's just cheap clickbait or the goal is to make younger generations to actually care about social distancing. The deal is that we are dealing with the power of large numbers. You can cherry-pick whatever case you want to fit your narrative. It does not mean its relevant information.
True, but it is important to highlight that outliers exist. People should understand that better to err on the side of caution.
Fear will only subside long time after fatigue creeps in, but before that no of cases should plateau.
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#34No known pre-existing conditions != no pre-existing conditions. Besides in a large enough dataset this isn't surprising.
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#35This type of Virus can cause respiratory failure by infecting the central nervous system even without infecting the lungs significantly. Latest interesting theory I’ve seen is that cases like this young woman (if truly otherwise healthy) could be because of this CNS disruption.
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#36It's easy to find an article like this very frightening, if you're young and healthy and have been thinking there's thus no chance you'll die of COVID-19 if (more likely when, tbh) you get it. I already have it, so I totally understand that. But this is the first time we know of that anyone young and healthy has died of the disease, and we're over a hundred thousand confirmed cases in. Even assuming the current under…
A 13 year old died in Panama on Monday, but again, no confirmation on her health from a doctor.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/panama-13-year-girl-c...
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#37I'm puzzled by the intense focus on whether someone who dies had a pre-existing condition. It's like people want to convict the person for their own death, make it look like they were irresponsible, as a denial mechanism. By blaming the person for succumbing to the virus they can fall in to the US-centric mindset of blaming people for their own disfortune, poverty, illness, accident, lack of whiteness, etc. It's real…
Huh? It's well documented by now that comorbidities increase the risk of death from COVID considerably. Articles like this make the news because they're fighting the myth that the young and healthy cannot die from it.
> Articles like this make the news because they're fighting the myth that the young and healthy cannot die from it.
Yes, but look at the comments from when I made mine: they were all of the nature of "I bet they had some other problem". Once you've seen this reaction enough it begins to look less like information-seeking and more like denial.
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#38It seems that anecdotal evidence of young people dying of COVID-19 is the trend of the moment. Not sure if it's just cheap clickbait or the goal is to make younger generations to actually care about social distancing. The deal is that we are dealing with the power of large numbers. You can cherry-pick whatever case you want to fit your narrative. It does not mean its relevant information.
We’re also dealing with the fallout of living in a “post-truth” era, where we as a society can no longer agree with basic facts.
Yes, it’s exceedingly rare to see a case like this, but what’s not rare is seeing the examples of people not taking this disease seriously, even some public officials.
Getting people to cooperate with drastic disease mitigation efforts won’t happen if there’s a probability embedded in that headline. People are doing that in their heads already when they think “this can’t happen to me, so let’s all go to the beach today.”
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#39Her aunt is the one claiming she had no pre-existing conditions. I'd like to see a statement from a medical professional and an autopsy
Yeah. No known preexisting conditions is very different from no preexisting conditions. That being said, it's certainly possible that she was just unlucky and the virus hit her harder than normal for people her age, or she caught some other bug at the same time.
>No known preexisting conditions is very different from no preexisting conditions.
but you can easily have regular checkups and still have an undiscovered (unknown) pre-existing condition. so what is the difference?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pedant in me says technically the name of the virus "SARS-CoV-2" but lots of people are referring to the virus by the disease name of "COVID-19". Maybe that's why? The pragmatic side of me says "Yeah, what the heck. It's clearly known" Edit: Rereading it, the quote is directed at people who are skeptical of it's existence. So it makes sense in context.
Ah it's like HIV and AIDS, isn't it? SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, and COVID-19 is not the virus but the disease. She's right.
Easy mnemonic: COVID-19 stands for COrona VIrus Disease 2019.