Good article, but misses a key and for me more worrying point.
Look at any set of published Covid-19 data Infections & Deaths and the NEXT Zfigure stands out - recovered.
There is a significant gap between # of cases & recovered.
Death may not be the only thing to worry about. Lasting effects of the disease can be brutal and affect all ages.
From a family member of my mentor in the US who has seen a death sentence due to his Ocular Melanoma trial being messed around. She is about 30, super healthy bike rider.
Just wanted to write an update. Today marks two months that Iāve been sick with COVID - 63 days so far. It has been a hell of an experience and included six visits to the doctor, one to the ER, and one to a neurologist.
Since May 8th Iāve finally felt like anything dangerous is behind me, but Iām still dealing with a few symptoms that donāt seem to quit: memory loss, trouble with finding words when speaking & reading words (including texts), dysexecutive functioning. I have extreme weakness/fatigue and havenāt been able to walk more than 15 minutes per day, though Iām slowly adding to that.
I joined a support group for COVID survivors with prolonged recoveries (2+ weeks). A few of us formed a research group within that, and put out a 50-page report detailing data from 640 prolonged recoveries (https://bit.ly/bp-covid-survey-analysis, summary at https://bit.ly/bp-covid-survey-summary).
There is not a ton of research on this yet, though preliminary studies are saying this type of prolonged recovery happens to 5-10% of COVID patients. One thing we found is that if youāre in this cluster, the chance that you are recovered by day 50 is only 20%! Also, symptoms are not only respiratory - they also span gastrointestinal, neurological, cardiovascular, and other systems (posting a list of the most common symptoms and the % of people affected below).
Some people now seem to be starting to have ārealā recoveries (as opposed to relapses which are common) around the 10th-12th weeks, so Iām hoping that will be me as well. I feel tired but in good spirits and grateful that I only had a āmildā case, and hopeful that I will recover fully.
Love to you all, stay safe and inside, and thanks for your patience with me being spacey/tired/uncommunicative for the past & next few months!