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Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom

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By CARLA K. JOHNSON and VICTORIA MILKO

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The media is to blame with all its fear mongering. Reporting on the amount of people that have had it and are now fine doesn’t get tv ratings or clicks.

What about the thousands that have been diagnosed with it and have only experienced mild cold like symptoms for a day or two?

Nope, not newsworthy. Keep everyone in a state of fear and you control them.

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My wife and I definitely got it from Taiwan at the end of December. The dry cough was annoying. But within two weeks or so, we were back in the saddle again.

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Most people recover from Covid-19. Well, true enough. And most people recovered from the Spanish Flu in 1918-19, but about 4% of all the people on Earth died from it. More people died from the Spanish Flu than died in World War I and II combined, and yet most people who contracted it survived.

Most people (80%) survive malaria, and yet it kills millions every year.

Saying that most people will survive an infection with Covid-19 minimizes the horror. IMO, the best thing about this latest epidemic is that it does not selectively target the very young.

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More lethal than the normal influenuza, but still nothing like the plague or Ebola. The media panic is overblown.

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1glenn:

Most people recover from Covid-19. Well, true enough. And most people recovered from the Spanish Flu in 1918-19, but about 4% of all the people on Earth died from it.

Err, no. An estimated up 4% of the people who caught it, not 4% of the earths population.

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If there is an economic collapse brought on by the panic over this new strain of virus, it will be much more harmful, in terms of job losses and suffering, than the virus itself.

That only applies if you have an infinite amount of health services. Up until now this outbreak makes 10 to 20 percent of the patients visit the hospital. That is a much higher percentage than influenza and it can easily swamp the capacity of the health services of any place, if that happens then mortality rates would increase much more (because lots of people that could be saved by being hospitalized would not have proper medical care) bringing loses both economical and in lives.

People simply forget too easily that doctors and hospitals are a limited resource.

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The recovery data are very important. The public should be kept informed with, updates alongside other critical numbers such as confirmed cases or death tolls. Recovery info can help uplift positive public mood.

Post-recovery patients better continue to live with caution for a while, ideally monitored by experts.

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