Excellent post, thank you.
Are they going to develop serology and a type of testing to assimilate prevelance?
What is the survival rate of ventilation therapy? Is there cross protection of other corona viruses?
Thanks again.
I haven’t seen any updates lately that I trust, but previous numbers showed fewer than 20% of COVID test-positive patients requiring hospital care, and about 2-4% requiring mechanical ventilation. Most of those on the vents survive. The 80% death rate on ventilators being reported by some hospitals is NOT representative as I understand.
Serological testing for antibodies to COVID-19 is being worked on. It should be coming on stream within a couple of months if not sooner. That will give us a better grasp of the prevalence and rate of asymotomatic vs minimally symptomatic infections.
Yes, immunity to other corona viruses confers some protective effect, but this hasn’t been measured yet. If that didn’t exist, the death rate would be much, much higher.
