"And here is what really surprised us: These patients did not report any sensation of breathing problems, even though their chest X-rays showed diffuse pneumonia and their oxygen was below normal. How could this be?"
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"We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html …
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What is a 'ground-glass abornomality'?
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N.B. mean age of 62. I don't think they say if the opacities correlated with age in their sample. It certainly shows that asymptomatic does not preclude lung damage.
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imo - tilts risk of sitting home doing nothing and merely surviving as higher than we suspected... when weighing potential interventions that may 'reduce symptoms' only. Perhaps, they are reducing more than just uncomfortable symptoms...
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What's the concern here? Intuitively, it seems unsurprising that many asymptomatic cases actually have symptoms so mild they can't be detected holistically.
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Is this definitely attributable to COVID-19? What’s the normal rate of ground-glass abnormalities in 65yo people?
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Ground-glass opacity lung lesions are not common unless you have lung cancer or something similar. 60+% of a cruise ship should not have ground-glass opacities.
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