Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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There are still over 10,000 patients in critical condition.
The very young don't have fully developed immune system and as a result, their immune system doesn't fight back as hard against the virus. Many fatalities resulted from the immune system overreacting against the virus.
Yesterday is the second consecutive days where the net total infected cases have gone down (net being that the total confirmed cases is subtracted with total death and cured+discharged). This is a good indication of the hospital occupancy that may has already reached its highest strain (peaking at 58000 in all of china; including clinical diagnosis), despite the still slowing addition of new cases. In the future the available resources should be more allocated to each infected individual, which I hope should decrease the death rate.
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I recall a doctor (or maybe a professor) on youtube briefly mentioned that the immune system of the younger population is actually more efficient than that of the older population which would only produce more mucus rather than fighting off the Covid-19 virus.
In my opinion, the older population is only better than the youngsters in fighting off pathogens that the former is already immune to.
But when dealing with an entirely new pathogen, the immune system of the older people will have to deal with it from the start, just as it is for the younger ones, and it now all comes down to how new and efficient and undegraded their immune system is.
About coronavirus, fear and prejudice. On Ukraine the return of Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Wuhan turned into some kind of surreal spectacle with protests and clashes with the police.
In the town where the government decided to temporarily settle them in sanatorium, local residents tried to prevent this, build barricades and stoned buses with evacuated. People did not care that it was their compatriots and they were not even sick, just under quarantine.
In the town where the government decided to temporarily settle them in sanatorium, local residents tried to prevent this, build barricades and stoned buses with evacuated. People did not care that it was their compatriots and they were not even sick, just under quarantine.
What does occupancy have to do with diagnosis?
Hebei's data is pretty unique in that they put people in 'confirmed' category even though they only show symptoms through CT scans instead of using PCR kits like the rest of the world, hence the term of clinical diagnosis. It has inflated the number, which practically will put all diseases with pneumonia-like symptom to be considered as the result of the novel coronavirus, and is also why you see a jump in the confirmed graph at February 12th. This however is going to be reverted back to the same categorization starting from February 20th data, so we may see some changes.
So no, hospital occupancy has nothing to do with diagnosing the infected. I dont even know how you get to this conclusion from reading my comment there..