Posted on 03/31/2020 8:38:19 PM PDT by nbenyo
He’s not the only one I’ve read about. And yes, I’ve seen accounts of cases where this comes on fast.
Right now I know of an entire family, kids, pregnant mother and father and grandparent - all sick with this. Too soon to know the outcome but they’re all in the hospital.
Not far away in Bayonne, a 67 year old man and his 27 year old son died on the same day.
Horrible...
Agreed.
The death rate in confirmed cases for those 10-40 worldwide is 0.2. That makes it no worse than the flu for younger peoeple. No child under 10 has died.
its amazing that she got it first but he got it worse....
one article said there were no underlying conditions but another said it was unknown if there were underlying conditions...
I accept the death of older people like me but its horrible for the young and he was the only child....
So many heartbreaking stories due to this virus.
Tragic really. Grave loss to his family and his team. His story shows the difference between flu and SARS. Not just that we have no immunity to it, but also how it attacks the body’s defense system. And those who are admitted end up in the ICU for weeks.
Yes. Sadly, here's another one:
Coronavirus News: World-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. James Goodrich dies from COVID-19
33 year firefighter in Passaic died of virus
Was a member of my department before getting hired by Passaic
Rest in peace brother ………..
Infected, yes, but dead?
there is sadness in death of all kinds, cancer, heart attacks, murders, suicide.....
I feel just as bad for a death from a mva.....
Hospitals in south Jersey are laying off staff; they may be redeployed north (or west to Philly).
With everything shut down, I’d imagine they have none of the standard car accidents and such.
The problem in North Jersey (where this fellow died) is that we have no idea who so many of these people are - tons of illegals, foreign students, etc., and many have different habits than us.
Nobody has said CCV is not a deadly disease. I said it likely kills 5X a normal seasonal Flu, but “Healthy” doesn’t mean this unlucky man did’t have known underlying health issues.
Lots of healthy ex baseball players have Diabetes, High blood pressure, asthma, etc. that would make him much more susceptible to dying from “complications from CCV”.
People generally know what issues they have that would make them more susceptible to dying from CCV. Sequester/quarantine those people and not the 90% of the people that are not.
Outside of large metro areas, the spread would be slow enough that hospitals could generally handle the healthy people to get sick.
Or we could destroy the economy for next year, locking it all down for 4 weeks every time a new ignition lights off.
Another case of potential underlying condition...some teenage athletes drop dead of conditions that were not known until the collapse...doesn’t stop folks from homing in on younger folks and this virus though...
When I was in high school, in the 1960s, a kid in our school died of the flu. Don’t know if he had any underlying condition. He seemed healthy enough, but was a bookworm and not into sports. Maybe he had undiagnosed asthma or something.
That’s the Catch-22 of this thing: Going to the hospital and being admitted might even worsen the condition.
“In New Jersey, 40 percent of tests are positive.”
Really? I had not heard that. If true, that is a shocking statistic.
“I think the problem is really that most Americans have high blood pressure and don’t know it— no symptoms. That’s the #1 “underlying condition”.”
That would not surprise me.
Ever take a stroll through a cemetery? You’ll see all ages.
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