On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:44:44AM -0700, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
On 3/23/2020 4:32 PM, Norman Yarvin wrote:
But the coronavirus doesn't give the usual symptoms of "a mildly
annoying generic respiratory bug": the ACE2 enzyme that it latches
on to is expressed in the lungs and not in the mouth or nose. So it
mostly infects the lungs, sparing the upper respiratory system. Also
one normally gets fever with it.
You know, if you're going to proclaim like this, you should probably add
a "I am not a medical professional, nor do I play one on the internet"
disclaimer. An hour's study of the field reports would reveal that
actual COVID-19 cases present a mix of symptoms all over the map,
ranging down through random scattered entries from the overall generic
respiratory-bug symptoms menu, to none at all in something near half of
infections.