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Covid does NOT just effect the elderly. Younger Adults Needing ICU in US
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What per cent had underlying health conditions ? "
The report does not state this. I assume if all these young people had an obvious underlying health condition (like that poor man with motor neurone disease in the news) then it would have been declared. This was a report published by a professor in epidemiology. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The American scientist on Joe Rogan said it would hit the US harder because of the health issues they already have"
I think this is a fair point.
Italy has an older population because they are healthier.
The U.K. population is probably more similar to the US. More obesity (I say that as an obese person myself), more diabetes and more heart disease.
I have read they may need to take BMI in to account when deciding who gets intensive care. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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From what I've no one without underlying medical conditions has been hospitalized.
I feel like they don't want to people about the other medical conditions to scare people without them as essentially there the one spreading the virus. |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
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"The American scientist on Joe Rogan said it would hit the US harder because of the health issues they already have
I think this is a fair point.
Italy has an older population because they are healthier.
The U.K. population is probably more similar to the US. More obesity (I say that as an obese person myself), more diabetes and more heart disease.
I have read they may need to take BMI in to account when deciding who gets intensive care."
Yes he was very polite about it but I think he was hinting at obesity being a major factor |
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By (user no longer on site)
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This is what Iv been saying for days.
People with diabetes for example are being told they are not high enough priority for delivery slots ect but Iv been told by my doctor I'm in the 3ed highest at risk category.
I look fit and healthy so people assume I am.
I hope that makes sense. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Young doesn't necessarily mean fit and healthy...
The previously fit and healthy people who have died are frontline health workers with prolonged exposure."
I'm fit and healthy, having an underlying health condition doesn't mean you are already at deaths door. |
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"In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free."
I hope no one needs one
I hope people dont get malera or tb or cancer
I have no idea how praying would help I find that offensive tbh  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not everyone knows they have an underlying health condition. For example high blood pressure is common in the UK (and not helped by obesity) for example but many people are totally unaware that they have it, many people might think they are fit and healthy when in reality they are not. |
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"Not everyone knows they have an underlying health condition. For example high blood pressure is common in the UK (and not helped by obesity) for example but many people are totally unaware that they have it, many people might think they are fit and healthy when in reality they are not. "
Or the Spanish football coach who died yesterday aged 21. He had found out he had leukemia at near enough the same time as Coronavirus. |
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"From what I've no one without underlying medical conditions has been hospitalized.
I feel like they don't want to people about the other medical conditions to scare people without them as essentially there the one spreading the virus. "
Young, healthy people without underlying health conditions have died from the virus and many more have been hospitalised... |
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I may or may not need hospitalisation if I get this thing (I have known, controlled, underlying health conditions). But I'm keeping away from people as much as possible not for me, but because if I get this thing I want to spread it to as few others as possible. There's an image going around suggesting that without distancing one infected person leads to dozens of infections. With 75% distancing, maybe three. |
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To keep things in perspective, over the last five years in the UK alone, flu has been a contributory factor in anything between 10000 & 30000 deaths depending on the year. And whilst rare in youngsters all age groups can be affected.
Not necessarily the only cause of death but a contributory factor.
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"It interesting & sobering to read the figures to see what percentage of 'vulnerable' people actually bother to get a flu jab despite these figures."
I only discovered last night I was eligible for a flu jab and therefore at higher risk than I thought. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free."
its not just the US...
60% of those in ICU in france... and 50% of those in ICU in holland are also mimicking the US results...
what they are finding is that where COVID isn't killing younger people, it is still doing significant damage to their lungs for example they will have to live with for the rest of their lives... |
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"In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free.
its not just the US...
60% of those in ICU in france... and 50% of those in ICU in holland are also mimicking the US results...
what they are finding is that where COVID isn't killing younger people, it is still doing significant damage to their lungs for example they will have to live with for the rest of their lives..."
This was also the unmentioned issue from Johnsons first plan to get herd immunity, with many people getting pneumonia that was catastrophic, even though they didn't all die. |
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"In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free.
its not just the US...
60% of those in ICU in france... and 50% of those in ICU in holland are also mimicking the US results...
what they are finding is that where COVID isn't killing younger people, it is still doing significant damage to their lungs for example they will have to live with for the rest of their lives..."
from the report I read that was in the people that had the virus in a severe form.. and could take up to 15 years to heal |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
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"I may or may not need hospitalisation if I get this thing (I have known, controlled, underlying health conditions). But I'm keeping away from people as much as possible not for me, but because if I get this thing I want to spread it to as few others as possible. There's an image going around suggesting that without distancing one infected person leads to dozens of infections. With 75% distancing, maybe three."
Seen that, it's a really powerful image.
I'm going to show it to my 19 year old who's been planning 3meet his mates at the bloody snooker hall. |
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"In the NY times today: 38% of 508 hospitalised covid-19 patients in US were aged between 20 and 54. HALF of those, needed intensive care (a ventilator to breath for them).
This is a post to ask people to please stop thinking it won’t effect you. Even if you think you’re young and fit, you could end up needing a ventilator.
You better pray there’s one free.
its not just the US...
60% of those in ICU in france... and 50% of those in ICU in holland are also mimicking the US results...
what they are finding is that where COVID isn't killing younger people, it is still doing significant damage to their lungs for example they will have to live with for the rest of their lives..."
66% of people hospitalised in Ireland are under 55. The youngest a one year old baby |
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"The American scientist on Joe Rogan said it would hit the US harder because of the health issues they already have
I think this is a fair point.
Italy has an older population because they are healthier.
The U.K. population is probably more similar to the US. More obesity (I say that as an obese person myself), more diabetes and more heart disease.
I have read they may need to take BMI in to account when deciding who gets intensive care."
people with recreational drugs in their system might be pushed down the list if there's not enough room in icu |
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