[joesbucks]

I have a friend who believed it was no worse than the flu and would go away after the election. (He still owes me a steak dinner on that claim.) -He is now singing a different tune. It hit him about 2 weeks ago. It has been the worst experience he’s ever endured. While he’s improving, he’s not out of the woods. Wasn’t high risk. And about 2 days before he started having symptoms, he wanted to get together. Thankfully I was busy and didn’t agree to get together. I am high risk.

[Steve_Seattle]

One thing about this virus that intrigues me is that it has such a wide range of impacts on different people. I'm just pulling these percentages out of the air, based on my general impression from news reports, but my sense is that 40% of people have no symptoms, 40% have mild symptoms, like a minor cold or flu, 15% have more unpleasant flu-like symptoms, 3% require hospitalization, but survive, and 1% die.

I know about the impact of "co-morbidities," but the wide range in severity of symptoms still seems a mystery to me.