Michael Yo is a healthy, ultrafit 45 year old actor. This was his COVID-19 experience.
"I couldn't breathe…worst pain I've ever felt in my life…if they had an eject button on life, I might have hit it. I was in that much pain. I couldn’t think clearly.”
"I couldn't breathe…worst pain I've ever felt in my life…if they had an eject button on life, I might have hit it. I was in that much pain. I couldn’t think clearly.”
There are enough reports from healthy young people of this kind of thing that we need to quantify morbidity, not just mortality.
How many severe but sublethal cases are there? Going all the way back to February, WHO said 19% were severe or critical.
How many severe but sublethal cases are there? Going all the way back to February, WHO said 19% were severe or critical.
Related to severity are long-term effects.
A disease that an older person can breathe in at a restaurant and die from a few weeks later is the kind of thing you take seriously, even in "mild" cases.
Severity likely correlates with long-term damage.
A disease that an older person can breathe in at a restaurant and die from a few weeks later is the kind of thing you take seriously, even in "mild" cases.
Severity likely correlates with long-term damage.
Now that 1M+ Americans have had COVID-19, we'll see stats on morbidity, not just mortality.
And survivors will be telling their stories.
Many who have a mental model of "if you don't die it's not that bad" will hear otherwise from folks in their network.
And survivors will be telling their stories.
Many who have a mental model of "if you don't die it's not that bad" will hear otherwise from folks in their network.
