Posted on 03/26/2020 6:07:02 PM PDT by Slainte
Madrid — Cristian Guaman Benítez, a 33-year-old electrician who moved to Spain from Ecuador, had been sick for a week with a cough, a terrible headache and a fever as high as 104 degrees.
He saw three doctors who treated his illness like a cold, prescribing medicines and sending him back to work. Finally, he called the number for covid-19 information, and a doctor came to his home to examine him — and sent him by ambulance to Madrid’s 12 de Octubre Hospital.
Which was where he discovered he was an outlier.
“I looked around and all I saw [were] very old people,” Benítez remembered. Struggling to breathe by that point, he ended up in the intensive care unit, and only then, fortunately, was able to recover.
Benítez’s story, of an ICU admission for covid-19 at age 33, remains rare. However, based on detailed epidemiological data from the advancing epidemic in Spain, even young men are not risk free. And as men in the country get older, their cases of severe disease, including pneumonia, trips to the ICU, and deaths, become far more numerous than those for women.
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Men have higher smoking rates...
Ask the 33 year old if he smokes Ducados. One of those things is like a pack of Marlboro Reds.
So Is this virus a sexist bigot?
Good thing I’m Swedish!
BS
As I understand it, Spaniards smoke like chimneys. When St. Josemarie Escriva had his first two priests ordained by Opus Dei, he told them that at least one of them needed to begin smoking to put other priests at ease.
The gungrabbing babykillers are trying to scare the young and healthy with this.
And gynosociety rejoices.
Men have higher smoking rates...
A study put the ratio of deaths of men:women at 1.7:1.
High workforce stress rates too.
Here for the warm and fuzzy bedtime stories.
i cant read it. please post if they say if he took ibuprofen.
Or they might be like guys here.
Here women always wear a mask in public.
Men are about 95%.
So about 5% of men, aren’t wearing masks at any one time.
The women all do. Religiously.
Yes, it has a lot to do with smoking. Same thing happened in China, where almost 2/3 of men and only 2-3% of women smoke.
Men have higher smoking rates...
They do, and that is one theory for the increased death rates.
A study of cases in China put the ratio of deaths of men:women at 1.7:1.
:^) Dammit! You beat me to it. I was just coming here to say “women hardest hit”.
there is another study from china that says smokers are less likely to get it but if they do they are more likely to have serious problems
doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me...but there it is
Exactly, more smokers are men.
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