One does not simply "recover" from a virus

Mortality rate highly dependent on age and underlying health. For most people it's better than 99% survival rate. Here's an online calculator of risk

COVIDAge Risk Calculator™

For me chances of dying if I get Covid is 0.23% (99.77% survival), chance of hospital 5.2%, chance of ICU 1.6%. So if 30% hospitalisations have long term health effects chance of that about 1.6%. But really there no "long term" data yet.

I entered some other combos
Healthy 30 year old, chance of dying 0.04% (99.96% survival)
Healthy 20 year old, chance of dying 0.02 % (99.98% survival)
Healthy 65 year old, chance of dying 0.45 % (99.55% survival)
Overweight 70 year old, smoker, high bloodp chance 7.3% (92.7%)
90 year old with all the underlying conditions, chance 21% (79%)

 

True - the risks of "dying" are lowish - around 1% of those infected - but this thread is about the ongoing affects of exposure to the virus ... much of which is not yet known or understood.

Examples of how a virus can lie dormant and adversely affect someone years - decades - later can be found in the original post. Nothing to be taken lightly

 

Did you read this?
Seems Allan not to for of the mark Even a healthy 65 year old has a 99.55% chance of survival, even I would not have believed that not to long ago.

 

This thread is not about the death rate (which is still 10x the flu death rate) ... but the ongoing health issues suffered by those who have "recovered" and how those health issues can potentially haunt survivors for decades to come

Have no time for the fossil Jones and his divisive BS

 

Ok I will leave it at 99% of cases are mild.
I suppose it will take decades before we know the answers of long term damage from this Virus but in my opinion people should just get on with a good healthy and happy lifestyle and live there life. There are so many things that cause long term health issues but the world must go on. Most of these things cause a lot of enjoyment too, but why focus on that...

 

You're still wrong.

1% die ... 20% end up in hospital ... 5% end up requiring some form of icu breathing assistance ( included in hospitalised figure) ... the other 80% range from chronically bedridden for weeks but not requiring hospitalization, down to mild

Approximately 40-50% of those that have "recovered" have ongoing health issues

So please, stop touting 99% mild as that figure is blatantly false propaganda

 

It is my opinion. Ongoing health issues is a very wide term. We could honestly talk about anything having long term health issues. I don't want to live in fear for the rest of my life and neither do the people who have contracted and successfully recovered from this virus.
You say 50% have ongoing health issues, that sounds really scary. Nearly 17million people have recovered. Are you saying half of them are going to have ongoing health issues?

 

Not what I say ... not what some politician says ... it is what what the experts in their respective science fields say ... try reading some of the previous links on this thread to educate yourself.

It can be scary and one should be aware but not alarmed

 

I wasn’t talking about immunity. Simply that those aged under 40 who have ‘recovered’ versus those who have not (for whatever reason), will pass on these genes to their offspring. If/when the virus comes around again, their bodies will be better equipped to deal with the consequences and may for e.g. recover quicker, or may not be impacted at all. Who knows.
I agree, vaccine is the short term answer, but long term, it could be evolution. Darwin saw natural selection with his finches in his life time, so it may happen in a generation or 2. We aren’t talking monkeys to humans
Back to topic.. we don’t know long term effects..but considering all the stuff humans have put their bodies through (junk food, obesity, alcohol, tobacco etc etc.. ), on average we still live a pretty long life.

 

The OP put up numerous viruses and their long term health issues. Why would anyone think it would be any different for Covid 19?
My point which was obviously missed, was that it would be nice to hear some positive statements instead of the continual negativity.

 

I believe one should only look at closed cases, ones with a definitive outcome.

For the world, 4% of closed cases have ended in death, not 1%.

Australia has done better than the world by 25% (surprise! surprise!!) with 3% of closed cases have ended in death.

Out of interest, USA has done worse than the world by 25% (surprise! surprise!!) with 5%.

One does not know with active cases as some of these will probably die (how many?) and the remainder will recover. Some of those who recover (how many?) will probably have long term health issues.

Both the world and Australia has 1% of active cases rated as “critical or serious”. There is definitely more deaths to come.

 

I suspect the 1% (as quoted by the UK stats office) is because it is suspected diagnoses is at 10-20% of actual infections ... based on random trials of antibody tests.

... and here's another little virus sucker that can have long lasting effects

Deciphering Zika Virus Transmission From Mother to Baby

 

Fair enough.
I do think the majority of people understand the severity of the virus, as well as the possibility of long term health issues, which can arise from most, if not all viruses.
I guess I am just fed up with the constant doom and gloom outlook.

 

Hang in there!!

The next golden age is on its way!!!

 

I hope I live long enough to partake in this golden age you speak of!

 

I decided to ask 3 random people today what there outlook on covid was.
To my surprise each of the 3 thought there had been tens of millions of world wide deaths due to covid. Not 1 of them believed me the current world wide death toll stood at under 900 thousand.

I showed one on my phone and he didn't believe it, said you cant believe the internet lol and he new there were millions and millions of deaths and this virus was wiping out nations.