I know this has been well reported, a PSA: rapid deterioration after a covid infection continues to be a thing, including in relatively young and healthy people, and if you have folks close to you with it keep an eye on them.
The sad anecdote motivating this PSA:
The sad anecdote motivating this PSA:
A friend of a family member, who was young, healthy, and vaccinated, passed away recently.
They were found at home unconscious by their landlord. Their landlord, skeptical of medicine, attempted traditional $CULTURE remedies for several days to deal with acute lung failure.
They were found at home unconscious by their landlord. Their landlord, skeptical of medicine, attempted traditional $CULTURE remedies for several days to deal with acute lung failure.
There being no one else in their life that noticed their absence of several days, effective emergency medical care was not summoned, and they drowned at home.
(Someone once wrote that covid is a mirror on modern society and this feels like a painful example of that, showing e.g. extreme atomization in parts of our generation which would have been remarkable at same circumstances in my parent's generation.)
Also remarkable how few public health authorities have organized themselves to do health checks on infected individuals in a scalable manner, despite that being something which is clearly within their remit and *should* be within their capabilities.
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