Should generally "healthy" people be concerned about the coronavirus?
Hiba,
Yes.
Covid-19 infects the vibrantly healthy as well as those who have some “underlying conditions” like asthma, diabetes, etc.
Scientists are still trying to determine why some folks may have a greater risk of death[1] after infection.[2]
Folks can think they are in absolutely splendid health while they are shedding Covid-19 virus all over the place, infecting family, friends and colleagues.[3]
Everybody should be taking precautions. Even age groups not initially targeted by Covid-19 seem now to be at risk, including, sadly, children. [warning: gross pictures [4] ]
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James,
Both.
Some symptoms occur simultaneously, usually combining with a fever.[1][2] While some patients experience no immediate symptoms at all.[3]
At first it was thought the asymptomatic patients were lucky. However, it has come to light with recent experience that those who have no detectable symptoms at first may suffer catastrophic episodes of stroke, heart attack and organ damage after a while.
Those showing immediate symptoms may seem to improve only to fall acutely ill a week or two later, all from the initial Covid-19 infection.[4]
The degree of suffering depends on the condition of your immune system at the onset of the disease and the degree to which it responds or overreacts to the infection.
There are probably other individual variables which have yet to be identified, but Covid-19 attacks folks from the feeble, who sometimes survive, to the athletic, who sometimes die.[5]
-Jeff
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