Covid19 Part XVI- 21,983 in ROI (1,339 deaths) 3,881 in NI (404 deaths)(05/05)Read OP

smelly sock wrote: »

Amd the vasy majority of people will live a great and long life after over coming covid. And its not likely to contract it either.

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

All of the people talking about how it'll only be 0.9% mortality should consider the following:

1. 20% of people will be hospitalised.

2. Many of these will develop Bilateral Interstitial Pneumonia.

3. Even if you survive this episode the long-term consequences can be devastating. There are many types of interstitial lung disease but mean survivals range from 2.5 to 7 years. Let's be optimistic and assume that with this it is 5 to 10 years.

Well, reducing the life expectancy of a large number of people in Ireland to 5 to 10 years and having these years be very limited in terms of their ability to do anything active and maybe people will begin to realise that even if we only have a 1% death rate now having a 9% rate of long-term complications from interstitial Lung Disease reducing life expectancy for this cohort to 5 to 10 years would be utterly devastating to the country and really drop average life expectancy for the next couple of decades.

There's a reason China is doing full lung transplants on survivors already.

People are just far too blase about this.

What are your remaining symptoms as you approach or pass day 60? I'm on day 57, and seem to have entered into a holding pattern. For the first 3 weeks, things were horrible. For weeks 4-5, things oscillated between horrible and ok. Now in these later weeks, I am feeling ok pretty much all of the time, but there are some nagging symptoms that just will not improve. For me, it's mostly the cough with dry throat and sometimes phlem, a wierd burning (ocassionally stabbing) left chest/rib pain that sometimes radiates down my left arm, and a mild hot 'infectious' feeling that comes mostly at night, sometimes with night sweats, and seems to abate as I get up and moving for the day. The chest pain often improves during the day also, but the cough and throat issues generally stay with me to some extent all day. This pattern has been holding strong for a few weeks now, with little to no signs of improving. The symptoms are here every day, and are generally pretty consistent in severity. I am thankful that the early incapaciating symptoms have largely abated. I still have some fatigue, but nothing like the debilitating kind that I had early on. SOB has essentially gone, along with naseua and GI issues, extreme weakness, insomnia, headache, eye infection, and all of the other stuff that I went through early on. My worry, however, is that my current symptoms have become chronic, and may be something that I have to live with permanently. Chronic COPD is a thing, sometimes arising after a bad infection, and I'm fearful that some cases of Covid may turn into something similar. It almost feels like the virus has established a kind of happy homeostasis within my body, where it isn't really doing a ton of rapid damage anymore, but still enough to cause chronic respiratory problems and really disrupt my life and sense of wellbeing. It feels like somehow the virus has gotten into a small pocket in my left lung where, for whatever reason, my immune system can't eradicate it compltely. Anyone else eperiencing something similar?