Always fascinated by statements like this. One potential issue - death is one thing, but how would you feel about the risk of lifelong lung damage that left you unable to do more than sit up for the rest of your life?
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Replying to @GidMK
Yep. That would bite the big one. Perhaps I’ve received so much misinformation about the Wuhan flu these past few months I’ve become jaded.
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Replying to @MarkBski
People tend to focus on death, because it's immediate and scary, but I think there's a lack of understanding that you may never fully recover from really serious disease. A month on a ventilator can cause lifelong disability, for example
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Replying to @GidMK
I also live each day knowing I may die a long horrible and painful death from cancer, like my father and his father before him. Every time I drive or just walk the street I chance death & dismemberment. Life is fraught with peril.
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Replying to @MarkBski
Sure, but I'd guess even with that risk you don't close your eyes when crossing the road. We all live with ~some~ risk, but certain risks are riskier than others
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Replying to @GidMK
We all live with the risk of the Wuhan flu. Eventually 100% of us will be exposed. At this point the risks societal quarantine exceeds the risks of exposure. You don’t treat a bloody nose with a tourniquet around your neck. The curve has been flattened.
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Replying to @MarkBski
Not true at all. Where I live, in Australia, we have had <20 new infections per day in the entire country, and may start reopening gradually with very few new infections this month. In the US, the reopenings are sudden and likely to come with a huge social and economic cost
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Replying to @GidMK
Hey, lots of great Keto docs in Australia! Maybe the Wuhan flu is not as bad as originally predicted. How many people have been exposed? It’s unknown. I’ve been lost a lot of respect for the medical establishment recently. Also heard ventilators don’t save lives.
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Replying to @MarkBski
If you're interested in the infection-fatality ratio - i.e. how many people who get the disease will die - I did a review and meta-analysis on that very topic with methodology explained here:https://medium.com/@gidmk/what-is-the-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-7f58f7c90410 …
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Replying to @GidMK
Thank you for sharing, that was a good read. My mother-in-law recently passed. She was 93, had dementia 15+years, and was bedridden with a broken hip. Her death cause was listed as Covid. For political & financial reasons, doctors here seem to be fudging the truth.
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This is the complexity. Some people will be very sick and pass away only a short time earlier than they otherwise would've. On the flipside, some people will die much earlier. I had a distant cousin, mid-50s, otherwise well, who died in NYC from COVID
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Health Nerd Retweeted Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
Looking at overall mortality in the US is a good way to think about it - these numbers almost never vary, incredibly steady by year, but are wildly high right now due to COVID-19https://twitter.com/jeremyfaust/status/1257473206736359425?s=20 …
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Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)Verified account @jeremyfaustThere’s one metric that can help us know when it is safe to re-open. This evening,@CarlosdelRio7 and I propose what that is in The@WashingtonPost. It is tracking all deaths of ALL CAUSES. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/04/metric-that-could-tell-us-when-its-safe-reemerge/ … Thread... pic.twitter.com/NaQK4CDEwoShow this thread0 replies 0 retweets 4 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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