Posted on 03/17/2020 12:40:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Belgian doctor working to battle the coronavirus says he’s treated several seriously ill young patients — and their lung scans were “nothing short of terrifying,” according to reports.
Dr. Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in Aalst, said an increasing number of people between the ages of 30 and 50 have presented with severe symptoms, despite having “blank medical records” that show no underlying conditions that would make them high-risk, the Brussels Times reported.
“They just walk in, but they are terribly affected by the virus,” Demeyer told the Belgian broadcaster VRT.
He said CT scans indicated they were suffering from severe lung damage.
“The images we took yesterday are nothing short of terrifying,” the doctor told the station.
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Vaping a concentrate with PG actually has a protective effect on alveoli.
Sure could be, might be, it’s possible, maybe.
Is there verification somewhere of their being more than one strain and if so what exactly are the differences in how people are affected?
Seems like a whole lot of BS floating around on this thing with little if any “fact”
“Just the flu” bros: Please watch this video. One minute of your life.
See 23, and get back to me.
"I’m so screwed."
I know how you feel... I'm stage 4 COPD. I had flu 2 years ago and spent 6 days in the hospital.. If I get this stuff I'm a dead duck...
The only thing I have going for me is that I live in a sparsely populated area in southern ohio...
What’s the medical code for “nothing short of terrifying?”
Until we get more factual information this is just another clickbait triggering headline based on anecdotal claims.
And of course, it just has to be posted on FR.
Vaping doesn’t hurt your lungs unless you are vaping some sort of pot/cbd/black market crap.
That report is rubbish fear mongering. ALL serious respiratory illnesses leave the patient with diminished lung capacity for awhile.
“They are people who do not smoke, who have no other conditions such as diabetes or heart failure,” Demeyer added.
But what he doesn't say is that the coronavirus was the cause of the lung damage. But he certainly is trying to present that image because he doesn't state that he does not know the true cause of the lung damage at this time.
Probably not uncommon for people to have lung damage but still function and think they are just getting older and cannot do some of the things they did when they were younger.
I;m not saying that the CoVid-19 virus isn't responsible, just saying that there is no conclusive evidence that it is caused by the CoVud-19 virus. So right now take this with a grain of salt.
Well, if this gets these young plague spreaders to start taking things seriously, I applaud the doctor’s efforts.
I wonder if the medical establishment delineates between smoking tobacco and smoking pot. It could be that the politically-protected pot smoking is causing lung damage, but it is not showing up on medical records.
I imagine getting baked on a daily basis can’t be good for your lungs. I seem to recall a wee bit of respiratory distress back in my distant, distant youth.
I wonder if these people were smokers smoking in China, Japan, Middle East heavy smokers in those areas don’t know about the rest of Europe!!!!
Really, what evidence do you have to support the theory that these were all smokers?
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias
The doctor said blank medical histories and non smokers. Why not believe him? Of course people can get this virus at any age. Of course old people have it harder. But some young people can get pretty sick even from the flu.
He didn't say they died, just that their lung scans were terrifying. He's also talking about some specific patients he say, not a random sample.
But really the death rate is not the most important thing. Many people require intensive hospitalization, without dying. That's the big issue.
Also seen with SARS.
I believe there are two strains of the virus. I wonder which strain is present in these younger people.
I’ll just leave this here since it’s related:
Here is the current “overestimated” death rate from CV in Belgium:
.8%
It’s overestimated because deaths are a known number, but total cases is low because no one knows how many unrecorded cases there are. The more unrecorded cases exist, the lower that death will sink.
Oh, USA: 1.7% and sinking, thankfully.
Shoot, just living in Belgium is unhealthy.
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