Coronavirus kills some people and hardly
affects others: How is that possible?
Los Angeles Times,
by
Deborah Netburn
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/6/2020 9:55:42 AM
The new coronavirus is not an equal opportunity killer. We know COVID-19 is more deadly the older you get. It's also more dangerous for those who have chronic lung disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, weakened immune systems and other underlying health issues. And yet our news feeds are full of stories about seemingly healthy young people who are quickly struck down, like 32-year-old Jéssica Beatriz Cortez or a 25-year-old pharmacy tech from La Quinta. These tragic deaths seem all the more confounding when you consider a flurry of new scientific studies that suggest as many as 20% of people who
Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 4/6/2020 10:07:24 AM (No. 370304)
Why do some people get cancer and others don't?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/6/2020 10:11:51 AM (No. 370309)
Seriously? Somebody is dumb enough to sign their name to such a question?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Axeman 4/6/2020 10:23:59 AM (No. 370326)
The 20% asymptomatic is more like 80% and body aches is not a symptom. I didn't read past that.
But, LAT.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pegmo 4/6/2020 10:41:27 AM (No. 370349)
What an ignorant question: How come all things are not equal everywhere and everyday? We don't like reality, we want to live in a fantasy world of our own design. Geesh.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/6/2020 10:41:37 AM (No. 370350)
Intriguing title. All the article says is nobody knows.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bmoc 4/6/2020 10:47:03 AM (No. 370358)
There was a town in England ( Eyam) during the bubonic plague that was completely untouched by the disease because something in their bodies caused them to be resistant to it AND they quarantined themselves off. Many diseases are like that. Poison Ivy doesn't bother me at all, while my brother can't even get close to it without having to be admitted to the hospital.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msts 4/6/2020 11:03:34 AM (No. 370381)
Read about the Diamond Proincess. A perfect test case. The entire ship, 3700 passengers, was exposed for one week and quarantined for two, a total of three weeks.
In the three weeks, 83% did not contract the disease. Of the 17% who did, half (8.5%) were not symptomatic. Of the remaining 8.5%, app 300, nine died.
Using the same reporting methods used to progress the disease, 9 people died of 300 or 3% which is basically the mortality rate around the US. But that isnt correct. The mortality rate is really 1.5% because it should be the entire population of tested individuals, not just those that require hospital care. So on a ship where the population was skewed old the Mortality rate was 1.5%. Of the total ship, .24%.
So...why the mass panic?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
marbles 4/6/2020 11:04:26 AM (No. 370387)
Textbook stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
AltaD 4/6/2020 11:05:42 AM (No. 370389)
FTA: OY: I’m going to quote Yogi Berra — predictions are really hard to make, especially about the future.
That about sums it up.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/6/2020 11:13:10 AM (No. 370399)
Genetics and resistance to disease is a mystery. I very seldom get sick and if I do, it's a light case. My children both had chicken pox. My son had maybe 6 pock marks, my daughter was covered with them. My co-worker gets bronchitis and pneumonia every year. I get a light case of bronchitis maybe every 5 years. The human body is odd.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/6/2020 11:21:11 AM (No. 370405)
A virus is a particle. If you take in a few particles, your immune system may be able to react fast enough to give you no symptoms as it disposes of them. If you take in a larger number of virus particles, you may get sick for a while and then recover. If you take in a massive number of virus particles at once and a little later take in another massive number of particles, your body may not be able to deal with the overload and you die. The last situation might describe a health care worker exposed repeatedly to China Virus daily.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/6/2020 11:33:15 AM (No. 370420)
I think it's a great question. That's how the Hydroxychloriquine benefit was discovered. Call me dumb I'll put my name on that question. What if we discovered a genetic marker or some other measurable variable explaining the disparate vulnerabilities and could put the majority of us back to work and protect the vulnerable?
Of course I'm talking about differences between people with similar other known health conditions.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/6/2020 11:40:10 AM (No. 370432)
LATimes (and the MSM as a whole) : We have no answer to this question but we are certain it must be Trump's fault.
Do modern media outlets have real editors anymore? I see no signs of it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kono 4/6/2020 11:44:54 AM (No. 370435)
Net net - no matter how well we understand a natural process, there is some essential randomness in nature that frustrates efforts to explain outcomes or make predictions. This constitutes a camouflage of sorts for grace to move and work without being clearly seen, much less understood, predicted, or controlled. And COVID-19 provides yet another reminder of the limits of human intellect and power.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2020 11:46:20 AM (No. 370438)
My personal theory...it seems reasonable that if you inhale it and it starts in the lungs, you get a greater chance that the lungs will be the primary battleground and that it may turn into pneumonia. If you manage to get it through eyes, nose or mouth, seems like it would go into the blood via other routes, and the lungs wouldn't be the primary infection site, which may give you a better chance for your immune system to crank up and beat it.
And....immune systems vary a lot.
There are some researchers who have published that there are a few external proteins on Wuhan flu which are essentially identical to proteins on the surface of SARs and some other coronaviruses, they say that some antibodies to SARs can identify and react to Wuhan flu in some phases of the infection process as it unfolds. If someone had one of these other coronaviruses, they may have residual antibodies which identify Wuhan flu very quickly, and get their immune system cranked up earlier than when it is entirely novel to their immune system.
And, it bears repeating that immune systems vary a LOT.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 4/6/2020 12:22:32 PM (No. 370497)
No 2 people are alike. Some are vulnerable to certain diseases and others are not. Who can explain it? For example, who can explain the stupid questions which are still being asked daily as to why our POTUS promoted a drug for use against Covid-19 when that drug was not approved by the FDA? When I watch the daily briefings, I am still dumbfounded about this question over and over. I guess I am just as stupid - to be dumbfounded, that is. It is just that I expect at least a modicum of intelligence in most people to understand what is going on by now. If I were Trump I would go into the press gallery and when the next person brings up this subject, POW!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2020 12:56:52 PM (No. 370548)
#16, TDS makes them like dementia patients in many ways, but with a lot of hate.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/6/2020 1:16:44 PM (No. 370593)
Virus infections typically attack certain parts of the body, usually those that are weakened by preconditions.
Some people are stronger and have great immune systems, some are compromised.
I'd love to see a study on what preconditions someone that died of CV19 had...likely no one would touch the corpse...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
walcb 4/6/2020 2:10:53 PM (No. 370663)
That was a total waste of five minutes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/6/2020 2:29:21 PM (No. 370685)
We, here at Trump headquarters, were trying to engineer the virus to prove lethal only to Democrats.
The fact that the mortality rate is so high in NYC and New Jersey shows we were mainly successful, but we still have a ways to go.
SHHHH-Don't tell the LeftMedia
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2020 4:48:26 PM (No. 370798)
#18, one doc who had treated IIRC 20-ish patients in the hospital said that all had diabetes, pre-diabetes or a third chronic condition which I have Bidened right this moment. Small group, but interesting tidbit.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
or gate 4/6/2020 9:17:06 PM (No. 370983)
Sounds to me like this virus is a great germ warfare germ?
You don have to pay to have it shipped.
I do not think China would do that on purpose. They need our people to buy their stuff.
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