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uponit7771

(90,339 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:56 PM Jun 2020

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40% of people who get CV-19 have some level of ARDs or some form of breathing issues

So of those 35,000 people getting CV19 ... DAILY... 12,000 are going to be left with with some kind of breathing issues.

This disease is hideous, please be careful

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lifelong-lung-damage-the-serious-covid-19-complication-that-can-hit-people-in-their-20s#Other-long-term-effects

“Pulmonary fibrosis can develop either following chronic inflammation or as a primary, genetically influenced, and age-related fibroproliferative process,” reports The Lancet.

Available data shows that about 40 percent of people with COVID-19 develop ARDS, and of those, 20 percent are severe.

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40% of people who get CV-19 have some level of ARDs or some form of breathing issues (Original Post) uponit7771 Jun 2020 OP

That's not the right stat. I think that article reported that stat sloppily. unblock Jun 2020 #1

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1. That's not the right stat. I think that article reported that stat sloppily.

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 08:06 PM

Jun 2020

Not 40% of all people who get covid-19.

I think they meant 40% of people who had been hospitalized for covid-19.

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/what-is-ards

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