I noticed a Brit doctor talking over the limited numbers of young kids with the virus. Chinese numbers (can’t be verified or really trusted) says that kids are not in the seriously affected group, but if it’s true....there’s some kind of lung capacity that they have...getting through the roughness of this.
I expect a lot more data from the South Koreans and Japanese as this develops....more reliable stuff that can predict better outcomes.
I did notice a comment from a Chinese comedian (probably from 2017)...he talked about this aversion of Chinese people to hospitals and questioning Chinese doctors. They wouldn’t show up to a hospital until they were seriously ill. If he was correct, that might also be part of the higher rate of death in China.
I largely agree with you on that. We’re not getting honest stats out of China and we may never get them.
There have been a couple kids brought out of the Wuhan area and at least one was quickly treated and cured in Malaysia. I think we can expect far more reliable data from the more free Asian countries in the area - but it will be fascinating to see what mix of the recoveries or fatalities will end up being attributed to culturally related, environmentally related or genetically related factors, over and above the qualities of the medical systems available to the victims.