The Majority Of Coronavirus Victims Are Men, And The Virus Is Hitting Adults Far Harder Than It Is Hitting Children

themostimportantnews.com ^ | February 11, 2020 | Michael Snyder

[grey_whiskers]

A poster, InklingBooks
over on a thread at Instapundit, writes:

I’m not a doctor, but based on this remark in the Live Science article about the relatively few children who’re victims of the Corona virus I will hazard a guess that extends what it says in this remark.

The innate immune system is the first line of defense against pathogens. Cells in that system respond immediately to foreign invaders. (The adaptive immune system, by contrast, learns to recognize specific pathogens, but takes longer to join the battle.) If the innate immune response is stronger in children exposed to 2019 nCoV, they may fight off infection more readily than adults, suffering only mild symptoms.

https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fwhy-kids-missing-coronavirus-cases.html%3AdCiN90AlcxcILg0U95Xc0zMfLKI&cuid=4235850

It seems sensible to assume that the innate immune system protecting a child’s lungs must be more effective than that in adults. Their breathing passages are shorter and their adaptive immune system has yet to learn what pathogens to fight. That stronger innate immune response (attacking anything foreign) may give them added protection against a virus like the Corona.

One peculiarity of the Corona virus is that its infection must plant itself well inside our lungs. Throat swabs often fail to detect it. That contrasts with many other viral infections that first settle in our throats and then move to our lungs. A throat infection is uncomfortable but not deadly and gives our adaptive immune system to prepare to fight it before it reaches our lungs, where it can be lethal. Because the Corona virus bypasses our throat and infects our lungs directly, the response of our adaptive immune system is delayed.

Of course, there’s also another factor suggested by the article, that the immune system of adults overreacts to a Corona virus infection, making matters worse.

Adults are also more susceptible to a detrimental immune response that causes a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), said Dr. James Cherry, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine. A complicated imbalance of immune cell activity sends inflammation into the lungs into overdrive, ultimately causing fluid to fill the alveoli, or air sacs, according to research published in the journal Annals of Translational Medicine

ARDS is the primary way that the Corona kills.

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Also consider Antibod-Dependent -Enhancement, which I found explained on another post from ZeroHedge (I know, I know) and which I posted here:
http://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3814901,64

[Battle Axe]

See Medcram videos # 1-15. The factor is smoking. Almost half of the men in China smoke, only 1.8% women. It's not men and it's not Chinese, it's smoking.

[9YearLurker]

Are men more the ones out and about in Chinese culture? Certainly that could account for a 54% majority. A 68% majority? Likely not so much.

[Reily]

Adults (particularly Asian men!) are also more likely to smoke.

[null and void]

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.

So far the false positive rate is 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 life, it's worth it.

[11th_VA]

2019 nCoV - You mean the Wuhan Virus ?

[yldstrk]

Maybe it is a manufactured virus from a biolab? Maybe it was part of China’s plan to take over countries by targeting their military members who are mostly male. Pure speculation on my part but who knows what this is exactly?

[DuncanWaring]

Given the level of air pollution in China, even those who don’t use tobacco are, in practice, smokers.

[AppyPappy]

It’s funny how that works. When the Spanish Flu came along, smoking was very common place. They gave patients aspirin for the fever and they started bleeding from the lungs.

[11th_VA]

Adults (particularly Asian men!) are also more likely to smoke.

BINGO - the virus attacks the lungs; any one with heart or lung issues that restricts oxygenation, is at risk ...

[z3n]

Men are more likely to shake hands than women, and adults more than children.

Just a thought.

[Red Badger]

Yes that’s it’s ‘official’ name.

The WHO said yesterday that they would not call it by a name of a geographical location, or an ANIMAL, because it might OFFEND somebody..........................

[Red Badger]

Men go out in the world to work and women stay home with the children.................

[bigbob]

And how many have died who are not Chinese?

Genetics.

[GulfMan]

What you lookin' at ...

[khelus]

re: “The WHO said yesterday that they would not call it by a name of a geographical location, or an ANIMAL, because it might OFFEND somebody..........................”

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The virus has been found in feces
“The stool and both respiratory specimens later tested positive by rRT-PCR for 2019-nCoV”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191?query=featured_home

So if has been postulated, part of the the reason the virus has hit China so much harder than the rest of the world is that it is being spread by fecal transmission given China’s poor sanitation and accompanying poor personal hygiene habits, WHO will not mention for fear of OFFENDING.

Nothing like wokeness over ruling facts /sarc

[null and void]

"From now on they will be calling it “COVID-19”, but I doubt that moniker will really catch on with the general public."

I would have gone with CORVID.

A corvid is a bird in the family that includes crows and ravens, birds often associated with carrion and death...

[Red Badger]

The WHO said yesterday that they would not call it by a name of a geographical location, or an ANIMAL, because it might OFFEND somebody..........................

[grey_whiskers]

“MORBID CORVID” — sounds like a name for a cartoon character. Not Merrie Melodies, but Melancholy Melodies...