Is this anything like the rapidity at which Muppet’s creator Jim Henson died of strep pneumonia, where he had been ill a day or so, realized he was much worse, got in a cab to the hospital but collapsed and died of massive organ failure sepsis in their ICU?
The academy is not a place where a cadet living with pneumonia, is going to get the sleep needed.
Utterly incompetent and a failure of leadership if a cadet, dies of pneumonia in a dorm room. That means she was not seen by her chain of command for days. She has no roomate? Nobody? Nobody missed her at class and got her to sickbay?
That bacterium is also associated with Toxic Shock Syndrome...
Hundreds of people from hundreds of completely different biomes come together and mingle viruses, bacteria, funguses, and parasites.
Everyone completely stressed out and sleep deprived, cortisol response up, immune function at all-time low.
Gets sick, viral at first, then commensal bacteria in the tonsils start overgrowing.
Sicker and sicker, goes to bed, it's just a bad sore throat. Viral so no need for antibiotics, right?
Septic, then dead.
Not common but not surprisingly rare in big ICUs where such a story in a young person is seen once every two to six months or so.
Pneumonia is particularly deadly after a covid injection...
My first thought after my initial sadness was to wonder if she might have been using an IUD and whether that could be associated with the pneumonia. I did find some literature that showed such a possibility.
I don’t think young sexually active women are properly told of the risks of various birth control devices. It is too easily forgotten that our bodies don’t like foreign materials and will fight them. This puts stress on the immune system making infection more likely and harder to fight off. Especially when it comes to toxic shock.
We don’t know if she had an IUD so this is speculation from me.
That’s a lot of words to say “vaxx”.
There was no leadership failure ... because there was no leadership present.