Last Friday I was told an elderly employee went home feeling ill while I was away on a meeting. When I got back…he still wasn’t. I called him and he sounded weak and congested. The symptoms instantly made me consider the virus and asked him if he’d been tested? His wife took him in that night because he wasn’t improving and he was diagnosed with COVID. He’s elderly and to tell you the truth…until I’m updated today, I am worried about him. This virus is real but…life goes on. I will take all the precautions I believe are necessary but I’m still going to live my life by more than just sucking air. I consider the times were presently in to be a balancing act…considering both the danger and the need to live.
What is the percentage of elderly in those states?
Obese?
These factors make one more predisposed to inflammation that assists this virus in its destruction.
Having worked health care in Florida for a number of years, I can readily say there were more obese & a greater percentage over their normal limit than here in Massachusetts.
I’m having difficulty buying the death rate even though it’s pretty low with all the hair on fire responses to this virus.
I buy the number of people who died Covid-19 positive though suspect the number who died ‘due’ to Covid-19 to be much lower.
When someone dies from cancer do they test them also for influenza? Why does it seem regardless of underlying condition(s) Covid-19 testing is given and blamed now when someone dies Covid-19 positive?