Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Not sure where you heard that? .... and all advise I can suggest it is a extra risk factor. I may have missed something of course.

Well I heard it in a number of places:


‘People with chronic respiratory disease, especially asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], are usually at heightened risk of complications from acute respiratory viral infections.

‘This is, however, not clearly the case with COVID‐19.

‘Asthma alone is not over‐represented in people with COVID‐19 nor is it associated with greater disease severity. This raises the question as to why people with asthma are not at increased susceptibility to SARS‐CoV‐2.’

RACGP - Why are asthma patients not at increased susceptibility to COVID?


“Our results are somewhat unexpected,” Sitek said during the presentation. “Among patients with COVID-19 infection, the presence of asthma was not associated with a significant increased risk of hospitalization, length of hospitalization, ICU admission or death.”

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20210301/impact-of-asthma-on-covid19-outcomes-remains-controversial


WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- During the pandemic, people with asthma have worried that their respiratory condition might raise their risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19, but new research findings should calm their fears.
After analyzing data from 57 studies that included a total of over 587,000 people, scientists discovered that rates of asthma among people with COVID-19 were similar to rates in the general population, at just over seven in 100 people and just over eight in 100, respectively.
Compared to the general population, people with asthma were actually 14% less likely to get COVID-19 and much less likely to be hospitalized with the disease.
The risk of death from COVID-19 was the same for people with asthma and those without it, according to the researchers at the George Institute for Global Health, in New South Wales, Australia.
The study was published online recently in the Journal of Asthma.
It's unclear why COVID-19 risks aren't higher in people with asthma, but one possible explanation is that asthma treatments may limit the coronavirus' ability to attach to the lungs, said study co-author Christine Jenkins, head of the institute's respiratory program.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2021...le-with-asthma

And then there's the whole Pulmicort cures COVID thing as well ...

It was actually the Brits who first noticed this last year.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well I heard it in a number of places:

Thank you. I had not seen those. Very interesting- As usual I do not understand.

Have a great day

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Thank you. I had not seen those. Very interesting- As usual I do not understand.

Have a great day

Very interesting- As usual I do not understand.

Another new section needed for those of us who don't understand stuff on here.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Another new section needed for those of us who don't understand stuff on here.

Did a four HOUR ( Bugger) session on Covid19 phase 1B roll out. I have a note pad with three headings ( Thanks Mr Rumsfeld)
Known Knowns
Unknown Knowns
Unknown Unknowns

My last column is still a bit long but as usual its "going to be with me in a couple of days" was a promise. I put via POST in the both the Unknown Unknowns and the Unknown Knowns

I know if the information promise is posted I may see it after every thing is over

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Did a four HOUR ( Bugger) session on Covid19 phase 1B roll out. I have a note pad with three headings ( Thanks Mr Rumsfeld)
Known Knowns
Unknown Knowns
Unknown Unknowns

My last column is still a bit long but as usual its "going to be with me in a couple of days" was a promise. I put via POST in the both the Unknown Unknowns and the Unknown Knowns

I know if the information promise is posted I may see it after every thing is over

Why don't you pack it in there & re-enlist J1? I'm sure life would be much simpler.

Sorry to bump this thread back to the top again but this is a bit of a laugh:

22k Ouch. Things come big in Texas As much as we have fun with out systems So glad we are not following the Americans on this topic.

John Druschitz spent five days in a Texas hospital last April with fever and shortness of breath. It was still the early days of the pandemic, and doctors puzzled over a diagnosis.They initially suspected coronavirus and hung signs outside his door warning those entering to wear protective equipment. Mr. Druschitz had already spent two weeks at home with worsening symptoms. He recalls one doctor telling him, “This is what it does to a person.”
Ensuing lab work, however, was ambiguous: Multiple molecular tests for coronavirus came back negative, but an antibody test was positive.

Doctors found that Mr. Druschitz had an irregular heartbeat and blood clots in both his lungs. They sent him home on oxygen, and ultimately did not give a coronavirus diagnosis because of the negative tests. He didn’t think much about the decision until this fall, when he received a $22,367.81 bill that the hospital has since threatened to send to collections.

OUCH

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

22k Ouch. Things come big in Texas As much as we have fun with out systems So glad we are not following the Americans on this topic.

John Druschitz spent five days in a Texas hospital last April with fever and shortness of breath. It was still the early days of the pandemic, and doctors puzzled over a diagnosis.They initially suspected coronavirus and hung signs outside his door warning those entering to wear protective equipment. Mr. Druschitz had already spent two weeks at home with worsening symptoms. He recalls one doctor telling him, “This is what it does to a person.”
Ensuing lab work, however, was ambiguous: Multiple molecular tests for coronavirus came back negative, but an antibody test was positive.

Doctors found that Mr. Druschitz had an irregular heartbeat and blood clots in both his lungs. They sent him home on oxygen, and ultimately did not give a coronavirus diagnosis because of the negative tests. He didn’t think much about the decision until this fall, when he received a $22,367.81 bill that the hospital has since threatened to send to collections.

OUCH

Gonna be massive over in the land of lawyers. I suppose it all counts as 'economic activity'.

DL