Catching the new coronavirus DOES NOT mean you will have it for life. Most of the people who catch COVID-19 can recover and eliminate the virus from their bodies.
Posted on 06/29/2020 7:33:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
(QCOSTARICA) In Costa Rica, less than 10% of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 require hospitalization, while the World Health Organization (WHO) says around 1 in every 5 people (20%) who catch COVID-19 needs hospital treatment.
Catching the new coronavirus DOES NOT mean you will have it for life. Most of the people who catch COVID-19 can recover and eliminate the virus from their bodies.
Why is Costa Rica’s rate lower?
Dr. Román Macaya, executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), explained this Monday that there are many factors, including:
Costa Rica resumed the use of hydroxychloroquine after the medical journal, The Lancet, retracted the results of the study that led the World Health Organization (WHO) suspension of the use of the drug.
“That study generated enormous questioning and criticism for the inconsistencies in the data. In fact, the same company that conducted the study is under investigation,” explained the CCSS president.
A few days ago Macaya explained that, although the average ‘positive’ is 14 days, there are patients in Costa Rica who continue to test positive for COVID-19 after 60 days.
Those positive patients for more than 14 days were categorized as: those with compromised health and hospitalized (even in an Intensive Care Unit) and those who continue to test positive even though they are at home, even asymptomatic.
“Why do they keep testing positive? There are different possibilities. The first is that the PCR technique, which is the one used to detect the virus, may be detecting a particle of the virus, RNA – which is the chain of genetic material that is amplified to detect the virus – and that, only that present and not the virus, that is, not necessarily because they are positive, it means that they have the active virus in their body.
“There is no evidence that they are contagious or that they will have a worse prognosis in the future, but despite this, they must remain under the health order as a precautionary measure,” he explained.
Another possibility is that the replacement of the airways can take up to 3 months, that is, the process of releasing all the virus particles takes a long time.
“There are also patients who test positive, then negative, and then positive and are in that alternation. There is another possibility: when the sample is taken, the sample is insufficient to amplify the genetic material of the virus and detect it, and this may be generating a false negative.
“No test is 100% sensitive. In these cases where there is an alternation, there is no evidence that they are relapses in the disease or that they are likely to worsen over time,” stressed the doctor.
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Costa Rican old are not rounded up into nursing homes and given constant immunocompromising vaccinations
Hospitals are no place for sick people.
Is there really anything new about the idea that viruses can linger for a while and a person can have some temporary damage from them? Or the idea that viruses affect people differently?
Case in point: Several years ago where I worked at the time, there was an office Christmas party attended by probably a total of 100 people (not at the same time- people dropped in and out), including employees and their families.
Some people brought their kids. Some of these kids had colds. A couple of kids were clearly not feeling well. The others were running around, with snot hanging out their noses, putting their hands in the potato chip bowl, etc.
What happened? Some people at the party got colds. Most of these people were a good twenty years older than I was and some had health conditions.
I never heard that they had anything but an annoying cold at an inconvenient time of the year and not much time torest.
What happened to me, who was healthy and who had, comparatively speaking, less running around to do at the holidays due to having a smaller family? I had one humdinger of a bad, lingering cold. I coughed for two months. There were times in the first two weeks I felt I couldn’t breath when walking from outside, where it was cold, into a heated room. I had some scary moments.
Then I got tired and faint when exerting myself. I forget what the doctor called it, but basically I had a benign inflammation of the outer heart muscle All I could do was let it pass and take a couple days off work to give myself a long weekend to just hang out on the couch and rest.
My throat was irritated from the constant coughing and so I kept coughing.
It didn’t really get better until we had a winter thaw in mid February.
Oh, and during the first few days of this cold, my mother and I shared a motel room and a long car ride. She did not get my cold.
Rice and beans.
Maybe they have higher Vit D levels, would be nice to know.
Never eat anything from a communal bowl when children are present ... especially dip.
Maybe hospitals there aren’t getting multiple thousand dollar “bonuses” ( kickbacks?, gifts?, subsidies?) for every hospitalization case?
If you reward something, you get more of it.
“... the World Health Organization (WHO) says around 1 in every 5 people (20%) who catch COVID-19 needs hospital treatment.”
What are those UN guys smoking?
They vaccinate for TB also, and we don’t.
With two over medium eggs on top.My favorite back in the day
Thanks for the ping. I had heard that Costa Rica dramatically blunted the impact of COVID via Hydrochloroquine. Cant find the chart, but when I find it, I’ll post it.
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