Posted on 08/08/2021 3:05:54 AM PDT by blueplum
... a large-scale new study in the Journals of Gerontology provides a timely warning: Covid can look different in older patients.....
...when the researchers combed through the electronic health records of nearly 5,000 people, all over the age of 65, who were hospitalized for Covid at a dozen Northwell hospitals in March and April of 2020, they found that one-third had arrived with other symptoms, unexpected ones.
The team, searching through records using language software, found that about one-quarter of older patients reported a functional decline. “This was falls, fatigue, weakness, difficulty walking or getting out of bed,” Dr. Marziliano said...
...The rate of atypical symptoms rose significantly with age, affecting about 31 percent of those aged 65 to 74, but more than 44 percent of those over 85. These symptoms occurred more commonly in women, in Black patients (but not in Hispanics) and in those who had other chronic diseases, particularly diabetes or dementia...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Let’s not be flippant with that position, whippersnapper! You, too, will be old — unless you take a bad risk. In which case, you get a funny headstone.
Ahh, the “Stealthy Variant” ...
I truly believe all the “mild covid cases” were actually the flu.
Don’t be whippersnapperin’ me, I am old. I turn 70 later this month, and based on that NYTs article I must be infected with a bad case if the China virus.🤣
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