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Posted on 04/09/2020 4:24:07 AM PDT by Cronos
..The developing wisdom—earned the hard way in Wuhan, Washington, and Italy—has been that older people and sicker people are substantially more likely to suffer severe illness or die from COVID-19 than their younger, healthier counterparts. Older people are much more likely than young people to have lung disease, kidney disease, hypertension, or heart disease, and those conditions are more likely to transform a coronavirus infection into something nastier. But what happens when these assumptions don’t hold up, and the young people battling the pandemic share the same risks?
So far, about one in 10 deaths in the United States from COVID-19 has occurred in the four-state arc of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, according to data assembled by the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer collaboration incubated at The Atlantic. New Orleans is on pace to become the next global epicenter of the pandemic. The virus has a foothold in southwestern Georgia, and threatens to overwhelm hospitals in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The coronavirus is advancing quickly across the American South. And in the American South, significant numbers of younger people are battling health conditions that make coronavirus outbreaks more perilous.
...The numbers emerging seem to indicate that more young people in the South are dying from COVID-19. ...In Louisiana, people ages 40 to 59 account for 22 percent of all deaths. The same age range in Georgia accounts for 17 percent of all deaths. By comparison, the same age group accounts for only about 10 percent of all deaths in Colorado, and 6 percent of all deaths in Washington State. These statistics suggest that middle-aged and working-age adults in the two southern states are at much greater risk than their counterparts elsewhere; for some reason, they are more likely to die from COVID-19.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
High rates of diabetes, lung disease, smoking, heart disease, obesity, and hypertension.
Oh yes we’re all going to die. I also heard especially that if you have a Southern accent it really hates you because you were homophobic racist of course. And that’s extra bad.
So, if I move to Washington, I should be safe!
What are the stats for New York and New Jersey?
The liberal fungus will engulf you.
In a month or two it’s going to be hot in the South, and apparently the Covid virus doesn’t flourish in warm temperatures.
But the despicable media won’t let that get in the way of a good, discouraging scare piece.
From his on-line bio; "Vann R. Newkirk II is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers politics and policy. Vann is also a co-founder of and contributing editor for Seven Scribes, a website and community dedicated to promoting young writers and artists of color. In his work, Vann has covered health policy and civil rights, voting rights in Virginia, environmental justice, and the confluence of race and class in American politics throughout history, and the evolution of black identity."
Exactly and I’m from North Carolina.
I have been living in Dixie now for the last 10 years and I retract all the bad things I ever thought about Southerners or said.
I still think the civil war was about slavery, but the people here are the nicest, politest, easy to get along with I ever met in my entire life!
I wish I was born here, raised here, and glad I live here now.
They’re adding to the racial slant.
Those states have a large AA population and in some large cities-Detroit for example-AAs are dying in larger numbers per the media.
Nevermind Detroit simply has a huge AA population...
Before this is over they’ll say Trump put this virus out there to wipe out black people.
The articles likening the effects of the virus to hypoxia make me wonder if those who suffer more with altitude sickness would be more stricken. I definitely struggle with headaches, insomnia, chest pain etc at high altitudes as I age. Coastal folks would be used to living closer to sea level when it comes to O2 and their lungs. Who knows? Just throwing that out....
To have written this & to be making a big point about danger to the young AND TO NOT MENTION AN UNRESTRAINED Mardi Gras in New Orleans (ending 25 Feb) is just plain journalistic malpractice!
Here is a picture and quotes from a NBC piece [24 March 2020] of this subject;
"But New Orleans, with 567 of the state's cases — 20 that led to death — is by far the center of the pandemic in the state. At least nine of the people who died resided at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement home and nursing facility.
Doctors and residents think Carnival, which ran from Jan. 6 to Fat Tuesday on Feb. 25 this year and draws about 1.4 million revelers from around the world, could have contributed to the outbreak in New Orleans and all of Louisiana's parishes."
To date, there have been 435,160 confirmed cases of CV. NY and NJ have 199,000 of them. Of the 14,797 CV deaths, NY and NJ have 7,772 of them, a little more than half of the entire nation’s total. In terms of vulnerability to pandemics, the Northeast leads the pack by a lot.
I’m not sure what’s so controversial about this. There are more younger people with chronic health conditions in the south and the virus is more likely to kill people with chronic health problems. A lot of midwestern states have rates of obesity. I’m sure those people won’t fare well if they get it either.
There you go again, talking about the elephant in the room!
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If the author of this article is so keen on promoting Black writers, why did he not do a demographic analysis of CV victims?
Race is the major factor in sickle cell anemia. Wh can’t is alos be a factor in CV? Also, look at the rates of smokers having serious CV problems, then compare the percentage of smokers in various states.
if you are in an urban area, you need to follow social distancing and proper precautions (masks, gloves) to avoid getting it.
if you want to survive it, then you need to be without any cardiovascular problems, without diabetes or high blood pressure and ideally not obese.
Do that and you’d survive in Milan or in the middle of nowhere
for NY and NJ, average age of dead is 70
Because NYC really doesn’t need thirty thousand ventilators
But but but but summer heat and humidity kill corona!Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
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