Posted on 04/28/2020 5:11:54 PM PDT by palmer
We report five cases of large-vessel stroke in patients younger than 50 years of age who presented to our health system in New York City. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was diagnosed in all five patients.
Clinical Characteristics of Five Young Patients Presenting with Large-Vessel Stroke. Cough, headache, and chills lasting 1 week developed in a previously healthy 33-year-old woman (Patient 1) (Table 1). She then had progressive dysarthria with both numbness and weakness in the left arm and left leg over a period of 28 hours....
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Picture worth a thousand words.
She probably “identifies” as healthy.
High blood pressure at 33...
“headache, and chills lasting 1 week”
In this environment shoulda put em on the Hydroxy trifecta.
Just saw the pic.
“Healthy”?
Not so much
Isn’t it a bit early to link all these things together
People older than 60 and/or with Double Chins should shelter in place. The rest of us can carry on as usual.
The new theory is to use immunosuppressants on these people, because it isn’t the disease, its their immune system that is killing them.
She needs elbow splints for a month or so - both arms.
“She probably “identifies” as healthy.”
Lol.
"This is real. Even if you think you're healthy, it knocks you down," said Janet Mendez, 33, a patient at Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital. (Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
It’s .07%
And that’s of confirmed cases — excluding all the infected people who never got sick from it. (Unless my math is wrong- a real possibility)
Confirmed cases
3,083,467
Deaths
213,824
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
After very old age, obesity (36% of all Americans over age 18) may turn out to have the highest correlation of any characteristic with death from the C-virus.
People older than 60 and with Double Chins...……...hey!
80,000 Americans died of the flu the winter of 2018, and I bet some of the presented with large vessel stroke too, but nobody was looking at it as a crisis to not let go to waste so it went to waste.
Chumbawumba
If you count all the asymptomatics plus others with antibodies we might get something approaching 0.07%
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