Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
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Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#2Perhaps because she had the Spanish flu? That was a theory
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#3Forget young people, Mr. Thiel should get some of his blood.
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#4Article doesn't mention if he was actually infected by the spanish flu or if he just survived the times. Anywho, fun happy news, worth the 5 seconds. Maybe not hn material.
Edit: Free from memory of a spanish flu documentary I watched the other day: "As I entered the train, the conductor fell dead on floor. As the journey went on, I saw two more passengers die. Then the train stopped. The loco pilot had died, and I walked the rest of the way home."
Spanish flu was some heavy shit. With young healthy people dying the first day of symptoms.
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#5surviving is one thing. to what degree was the permanent lung damage?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#6I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#7I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.
There could actually be a statistical case for people who have genes for longevity who drink, smoke, etc.
I don't mean that 'smoking is good for you', but that those who are going to live long, will live long no matter what their personal habits are. Thus when you look at really old people, those that drink / smoke are over-represented. They are statistical outliers of course...
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#8I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.
Survivorship bias.
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#9Surely by now we should have enough data to make some serious progress on why this virus has such wildly different effects on different people.
Re: Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
#10I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.
Survivorship bias.
how so?