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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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heisman said:
UN is warning that an additional 130 million people risk starvation due to Covid jobless fallout...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ld-be-next-big-impact-of-coronavirus-pandemic
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Why just stop at the unemployed? There will be millions of deaths world wide from starvation and it will be too much to stop. This is what a pandemic does. Horrific suffering. The sooner we can mass produce a vaccine the sooner the job loss and loss of life will be effected but not ended. We can do our little part by social distancing,wearing a mask and washing hands and helping where we can. This is a war and there will be many battles to fight.
 
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buckeyebri said:
Ditmer extended Michigan until May 28th. The senate said they would not allow this to happen. Waiting on the response. What we have is a Governor punishing the whole State for one area (Detroit).

Local bakeries, bagel shops, and previously closed restaurants on the west side of the State are opening up for takeout and drive through to try to survive a governor who can’t read the geographic content of the reports.

She is now treading on one of the most financially impactful weekends for small communities on the West side of the State.

There are better ways to go about this....
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This guy stands with Buckeyebri!!......hahaha!!

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hit...-in-response-to-whitmers-coronavirus-lockdown
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Unless someone is 80+ or younger with comorbidities, he ain’t too far off.
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More like 65+ for death, I guess we'll find out soon enough how expendable they are.

Meanwhile we are still only focusing on deaths, despite this directly threatening all non tiktok age groups


They found that body weight did not significantly raise the risk of hospitalization or more severe illness for people over 60. But it did in patients younger than 60, compared to those with a healthy body mass index, which is less than 30. The research showed:

  • Patients with a BMI of 30-34 were twice as likely to get admitted to the hospital or to be admitted to acute care.
  • Patients with a BMI of 35 or higher were twice as likely to be admitted to the hospital and three times as likely to end up in the intensive care unit.
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Seoane stresses that his data is not yet peer-reviewed but has been submitted to a top medical journal for review.
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This knowledge should help front-line providers characterize which patients likely need a closer eye on them in terms of follow-up,” Petrilli says. “Our study is not saying only obese patients are hospitalized, require ventilation, intensive care, or that they die, but we do know there is a higher likelihood of those things.”
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“The message for doctors and hospitals is: If you are assessing a patient and are on the fence between sending them home or admitting them into the hospital, you should lean towards bringing that patient into the hospital if they are obese because we know they have an increased chance of ending up in the ICU,” Seoane says. “In addition, doctors should be educating our patients that they are high-risk for developing severe complications from COVID-19 and should take extra precautions not to contract the disease.”
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A second study out of NYU Langone Health of 4,103 COVID-19 patients found obesity was the second strongest predictor (after age) of hospitalization and progression to critical illness for those with the coronavirus disease -- even more so than lung disease, heart disease, and documented smoking history.

“This isn’t meant to scare people whose BMI is high,” says Christopher Petrilli, MD, a hospitalist at NYU Langone Health and the lead author of the study. “We aren’t saying everyone with a BMI over 30 is in danger. But we are saying they may be at higher risk of more severe symptoms and hospitalization than the general population, with everything else being held equal.”

Early research out of China finds obese COVID-19 patients have more than twice the risk of severe pneumonia than people of a lower weight.
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