Corona virus

[dendrin]

Anyone know anyone who had it? Just wondering.

[Akshayb]

As in personally- Not yet

[phoneman]

Yes. The father of the former BFF (best friend forever) of our 13 year old granddaughter. (They are still friends, but not best friends).

They live in the northeastern US. I am not sure, but the guy must be in his mid to late 40s. He does have severe diabetes.

He was diagnosed on March 14 2020, so we shall see what happens.

[TheGovernor8430]

One of my best friends is having it. She?s doing a lot better but at first it was rough. She said that it hits really hard at first but then she feels better. Than she?ll wake up the next day and feel first. She constantly has a sore throat with coughing non stop and her fever was 103.9 but luckily she?s doing a lot better. She?s had these symptoms for about a week and I think it?s finally getting out of her system.

[dendrin]

Originally Posted by TheGovernor8430

One of my best friends is having it. She?s doing a lot better but at first it was rough. She said that it hits really hard at first but then she feels better. Than she?ll wake up the next day and feel first. She constantly has a sore throat with coughing non stop and her fever was 103.9 but luckily she?s doing a lot better. She?s had these symptoms for about a week and I think it?s finally getting out of her system.

Good luck to her. What's really strange about this virus is it can barely effect some people, and bring others to critical condition. Much research needs to be done on it.

[dp]

Originally Posted by dendrin

Good luck to her. What's really strange about this virus is it can barely effect some people, and bring others to critical condition. Much research needs to be done on it.

Yeah, there's so much conflicting information and it keeps changing. Where I live, we were first told that only very old and frail people are in danger, and for everyone else it's not much worse than a mild flu. The advice was basically to be careful so that we don't infect high-risk groups. The average age of causalities in my country was 89 (!) until recently. All of a sudden (a few days ago) a bunch of people in the 20-49 age range were sent to the intensive care unit in critical condition. Because of extremely strict privacy protection laws in my country, there is almost no information available about those affected by the virus, but the doctors have told us it appears to be completely random. Many of these people had no known health problems before this happened. According to this recent article, one third of the patients in intensive care is now younger than 50.

[Gypa]

In Iceland where I live we have done the most testing per capita and managed to slow the spread so far.

and here some data for you:

https://www.covid.is/data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_c...mic_in_Iceland

[winniethebeer]

Originally Posted by Gypa

In Iceland where I live we have done the most testing per capita and managed to slow the spread so far.

and here some data for you:

https://www.covid.is/data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_c...mic_in_Iceland

daily updates by country:

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/0...navirus-cases/


new york city:

https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_covid-19-tracker/