Yes, those who are the least healthy and the oldest among us are at most risk, but this virus absolutely, unequivocally, kills young people - and it does it in a horrible way. I spent part of the day today looking at the labs and radiological data of a patient who is barely over 30, with NO preconditions, who is dying of Covid. First of all, when you first present, your chest X-ray and lab data can all be absolutely normal. The progression, however, is horrible. Pretty much my whole adult life to this point has been focused professionally on medicine, and I’ve seen a lot of things over the years.
Doubtful, primarily because we would have seen an uptick in ARDS and critically ill patients without a known cause, and there would have been transmission to health care workers. But yes, there are lots of asymptomatic cases, and cases with mild symptoms, which is why it’s so hard to get a good handle on crucial issues - like mortality rate, without widespread testing.