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A 25-year-old resident of Reno, Nevada was infected with the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, two times, about 48-days apart, with the second infection causing a more severe case of COVID-19 than the first and requiring hospitalization and oxygen support.
That's according to a draft study, led by researchers at the University of Nevada and posted online. The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed. Still, it drew quick attention from researchers, who have been examining data from the first confirmed case of a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, reported earlier this week.
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Amid the more than 24.5 million cases worldwide, it is completely expected to find some recovered patients who are not completely protected by their immune responses and are thus vulnerable to reinfection.The big question is: how common is this scenario?
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:09PM (8 children)
No, the underlying conditions mentioned are not being male or your blood type. They are other diseases, injuries, and otherwise unhealthy medical conditions. RTFA.
And, no, I'm not underestimating a damned thing. I'm taking and citing the best numbers available and drawing the only conclusion remotely supported by those numbers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by RandomFactor on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:01PM (2 children)
Two things can be true at once.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm [cdc.gov]
(see Table 3)
6% of Covid deaths are from Covid alone.
94% of Covid deaths involved at least one other underlying health condition, and on average 2.6 additional conditions or causes of death.
The following were listed co conditions/causes
Influenza and pneumonia
Respiratory failure
Hypertensive disease
Diabetes
Vascular and unspecified dementia
Cardiac Arrest
Heart failure
Renal failure
Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
Other medical conditions
Things start to break and weaken after 50, so age makes sense for being a correlation in disease caused deaths of almost any sort, and age can certainly be correlated positively with all of the above conditions.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html [cdc.gov]
Comparing just on age, a 50-64yo with covid has 30x the risk of death vs an 18-29yo.
There is a correlation between blood types and disease risk seen [mit.edu] with O and AB less likely to test positive, and A at increased risk.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:07PM (1 child)
O FTW, BITCHES!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:30PM
Kinda liking that one m'self :-)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:12PM (4 children)
The thing is, many of those underlying conditions would never have been the patient's cause of death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:18PM (2 children)
The thing is, the patient was going to die eventually, anyway. Covid may have hastened that death, or it may not have. Roll 5 d20, any result over 96 says Covid was the killer.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:37AM
Yes, that seems to be the message from certain ...people.
"Some of you are going to die, but that's a price I'm prepared to pay".
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:21AM
Everybody will die eventually, but for some reason we still try to avoid it and we still throw people in prison if they speed the process up for someone else.
Sounds like you're the kind of generous person that will cheerfully give yourself the shirt right off of someone else's back.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:23PM
I was bored enough to research it, it seems to be the majority of causes of death, according to
https://www.cdc.gov/Nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/06olderpersons.pdf [cdc.gov]
Chinese Flu condition list accounts for 32 + 8 + 6 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 54% of death certificate causes
Non-Chinese flu death certificate causes in the top 10 include cancer at 22%, Alzheimers at 3%, accidents around 2% and septicemia around 2%.
I had to look up septicemia to figure out what it is; hell it kills about 1 in 50 Americans. Turns out its undifferentiated infection where your body starts rotting before you finish dying. That sucks. I'd be willing to "give" septicemia to either argument for or against although I felt pessimistic so I filed it as against.