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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
That's the real issue. I know personally about a dozen people who have had it. About half have had symptoms more than 12 weeks, and very few are back to 100 percent. It's a pretty debilitating disease. The respiratory issues later are pretty bad, and the cardiac are to be seen. Most are in their 30s and 40s, some in their 20s.
We are getting better at treating it, though. Hospitalization length of stay is down, and we're seeing more people walk away. But the death rate is still higher than in March, April, May.
Death is definitely not the only long term issue with this.
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Sadly, the people I know best who definitely had it got it early before we had much skill treating it and died. Just today I was being asked for a recommendation for a PR person and had to check myself because my favorite PR guy died.
That is the product of Boston being hit early on and then locking down like our life depended on it. I really can't figure out why others can't learn from that experience. Or rather, why others choose to be willfully idiotic and refuse to learn from that experience.
