I ' ll say it again: it isn ' t just about dying

So we ' re still hearing all this yadda yadda about how yeah, newly diagnosed cases of Covid-19 are soaring in many states but the death toll is not. First of all, that isn ' t actually true. In the states with the most dramatic increases in cases, the daily death toll is indeed now rising. Deaths are a lagging indicator. It is certainly possible that with more young people in the case mix and improved treatment the case fatality rate will be less than it was in New York, but that ' s still nothing to be sanguine about. (Actually there were almost 1,000 officially reported deaths yesterday nationwide, so that whole narrative is likely to be inoperative soon anyway.)However, you must not base your calculations on the assumption that your chance of dying is only 1% or whatever you think it is. Even if you have a so-called mild case, meaning no respiratory distress, no hospitalization, you could have brain damage, a stroke, chronic fatigue, long term respiratory insufficiency, weakness. We don ' t yet know how prevalent these sequelae are but they are bad enough to be widely noticed and may even be happening to people who never knew they were infected and aren ' t being attributed to infection. Here ' s an excerpt from the linked story:Doctors may be missing signs of serious and potentially fatal brain disorders triggered by coronavirus, as they emerge in mildly affected or recovering patients, scientists have warned. Neurologists are on Wednesday publishing details of more than...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs