I found a link that was in an article that I read in a medical rag that I sometimes read. It addressed the underlying conditions, that cause the most complications related to the virus that often require mechanical ventilation and frequently result in death. ( I know. It's morbid )
https://dgalerts.docguide.com/clinical-characteristics-patients-severe-covid-19-washington-state-fda-allows-expanded-use-devices?nl_ref=newsletter&pk_campaign=newsletter&nl_eventid=34250&ncov_site=covid-19&nl_campaignid=3641
NEW YORK -- March 20, 2020 -- Today’s DG Alert covers clinical characteristics of patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from Washington State, and a new policy from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that allows certain vital sign-measuring devices to be used remotely.
A study published in JAMA describes the clinical presentation, characteristics, and outcomes of patients with severe COVID-19 who were treated at Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, Washington.
Between February 20, 2020, and March 5, 2020, 21 patients (52% male) aged 43 to 92 years with COVID-19 at Evergreen Hospital -- a public hospital with 20 intensive care unit (ICU) beds serving approximately 850,000 residents in Washington State. Of the patients, 86% had comorbidities, the most common being chronic kidney disease (47.6%), congestive heart failure (42.9%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (33.3%), and diabetes (33.3%).
If you have an interest in medical science or want to learn more about the most severe cases of COVID-19, you might learn something from reading the entire article. It helped me feel less anxious about getting the virus. I don't want it. I hate colds and flus and haven't had any in years, but I think that my husband and I are healthy enough, with decent immune systems, that we would likely survive without any serious complications.
Hope you all are doing your best to stay well!
Everything about you says "healthy." I cannot say the same for the majority of people I see. Even if they appear healthy I can accurately presume that their diets are garbage. People have lost their connection with a healthy, sustaining diet. For the most part they think their is some kind of magical way your body obtains the nutrients it needs.
The best defense is to stay healthy, eat healthy, keep the weight off, exercise to exhaustion on a regularly basis, pick up heavy things, stretch, jump, do whatever it takes to mimic the lifestyle our bodies crave to be healthy. Use it or lose it, no matter your age.
I was reading that in China, although the virus took many lives, because of how people had to adjust many more lives were saved. That doesn't mean we can eat garbage and live like slugs, only that we have a lot to learn.
I heard that some European countries are hoping for 100% exposure to the virus, doing to nothing to stop its spread. People will die, but there will be no recurrence.