Hate to distract you from your dinner planning, but here's a question about the topic at hand.
What is the survival rate of those Covid-19 patients put on respirators? Anybody heard?
Of the people who go onto a ventilator, under any medical condition, only 50% survive to come off it. Only 30% of the total that are put on survive a year. There was a study in the medical industry from 2015 that created those statistics.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8404197With the Covid-19, and it being a virus that “directly” attacks the lungs, that 50% that come off it above, could fall quite a bit. It could be extremely low, and they aren’t reporting those numbers. Wonder why.
Bottom line, if your lung capacity is low from the start, before you even get the virus, you’re in a bad situation right off the bat, because the virus will diminish your lung capacity by about 5 METS, so you’ll need an extra tank of gas (additional lung capacity above 5 METS) to be able to breath and supply oxygen to your body.
A normal person with zero health issues: No smoking, no COPD, diabetes, no severe over weight, etc. consumes the following METS:
1 - MET – sitting
2/3 - METS walking around, working
8 – METS working out on a stair stepper, fast walk sustained 30 minutes, or casual jog 10-12 min./mile for 2.5 – 3 miles.
So you see, if you start with 8 METS and the virus robs you of 5 METS, you’ll have 3 MET reserve capacity left to just lay in bed, and breath or get up and walk to eat, etc.
That is why it is critical for people to start doing a cardio work-out, however they can RIGHT NOW, to build up their lung capacity, so they’ll have a chance to fight it. It takes about 2 months normally, some faster. Just depends where you’re starting from capacity wise.
You can see, if you start off with a diminished capacity, you’re cooked right off the bat. A respirator can not make up that capacity.
Even if the elderly have leg joint issues, et al., they can give their lungs a workout just doing deep breathing, slow so they don’t hyperventilate, for an extended period, to build up.
The reason it isn’t killing kids, is the fact they have good lungs: run around all day. As people get older, they stop staying in shape (low lung capacity), thus the death rate climbs as the age goes up.
It’s a bad deal all around with the way it attacks the lungs.
