Posted on 03/27/2020 6:06:33 AM PDT by mikelets456
"A good turn"? The guy was coughing up blood----I bet the "good turn" is from the malaria drug.
The virus that put John Bessler in the hospital — the virus that left him coughing up blood after days of fever in his apartment, alone — was at first mistaken for the common cold.
What else, after all, could it have been?
“I didn’t think he had it at the beginning,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Bessler’s wife, tells PEOPLE. “I mean, he was quarantining himself. But based on what he told me, I was far away, but I didn’t really think it.”
The “it” she is referring to is a new coronavirus which first emerged in China in late 2019. It causes the respiratory disease COVID-19 and is highly contagious, spread by coughs and sneezes from an infected person or after having contact with a surface they have touched.
In three months, the virus has spread around the world. As of Thursday, there were approximately 521,000 confirmed cases in more than 150 countries, with about 75,000 cases in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Yep. at least a week ago.
FWIU, droplet is aerosol transmission with both small and large size particles. (sneezes, coughs) whereas aerosol is smaller particles that can travel farther and remain suspended longer (such as through normal breathing).
It’s not yet certain if this virus is transmitted through breathing but I’d bet that’s the case to some extent based on how easily transmissable it seems. If that is the case, select air purifiers with certain suitable filters would be helpful.
But did they have anything other than mild symptoms?
Whatever the cause, coughing up blood is never a good thing
If that’s what he was doing...
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