“I had SARS 22 years ago. 28 days in ICU, lost 30 lbs even though intubated, last rites, etc. my immune system was compromised for two years.”
Talk about bad luck. There were fewer than 9,000 known cases of SARS-1 worldwide. And it had a mortality rate of over 8%.
I had SARS before SARS was cool. Sudden Adult Respiratory Syndrome refers to any number of sudden onset severe pneumonias. You don’t realize how sick you are, then you die. This was years before the worldwide Epidemic of a few years ago