Sandy Shanks
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This was written on March 23.
Originally Posted by Sandy Shanks 
For those who contract the disease "80% get what feels like a bad cold and recover at home." COVID-19: What we know so far about the 2019 novel coronavirus - UChicago Medicine
Many did not even know they had the virus.
However, there is this from Business Insider, "80% of deaths associated with COVID-19 were among adults aged ≥65 years with the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years."80% of US coronavirus deaths have been among people 65 and older, a new CDC report says — here's what it reveals about the US cases
This was written at a later date.
Originally Posted by Sandy Shanks
COVID-19 has spread rapidly through nursing homes across New York, infecting nearly 4,200 elderly residents considered particularly vulnerable to the virus and killing more than 1,200, according to new state Health Department data.
The staggering figures show a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases and fatalities at state-licensed nursing homes that are home to 100,000 residents.
There are now 4,170 confirmed COVID-19 positive cases at 312 New York nursing homes — more than half of all such facilities — along with 1,231 resident deaths, the data shows. Nearly 30 percent of all nursing home residents who contract COVID-19 eventually die from the virus, the data shows.
The latest data represents a 606% increase in nursing home cases, and a 1,331% hike in deaths since March 26.
New NY data shows COVID-19's devastating effect on nursing homes | Newsday
CNBC reports, "An estimated 13.9% of the New Yorkers have likely had Covid-19, according to preliminary results of coronavirus antibody testing released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday."
This is important.
"The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery stores and shopping locations across 19 counties in 40 localities to see if they had the antibodies to fight the coronavirus, indicating they have had the virus and recovered from it," Cuomo said.
These people had been infected by the virus but didn't know it.
"With more than 19.4 million people residents, according to U.S. Census data, the preliminary results indicate that at least 2.7 million New Yorkers have been infected with Covid-19."
This test helps to confirm what I have been saying all along. Healthy people, regardless of age, are unaffected by this virus, unless you count the effects of the common cold which occurs with some, although many are asymptomatic, according to other studies.It's Estimated 1 in 4 Coronavirus Carriers Could Be Asymptomatic. Here's What We Know
I wager it is a lot more than 25%. In this study 420 people went to the market and discovered they had been infected by Covid=19.
Deaths occur overwhelmingly in the sick and elderly, many of whom were already in a nursing home or hospital, along with the poor and the homeless who are bereft of health insurance. Reports of deaths not in those categories are so rare they make the six o'clock news and we are not informed of their condition.
For those who contract the disease "80% get what feels like a bad cold and recover at home." COVID-19: What we know so far about the 2019 novel coronavirus - UChicago Medicine
Many did not even know they had the virus.
However, there is this from Business Insider, "80% of deaths associated with COVID-19 were among adults aged ≥65 years with the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years."80% of US coronavirus deaths have been among people 65 and older, a new CDC report says — here's what it reveals about the US cases
This was written at a later date.
COVID-19 has spread rapidly through nursing homes across New York, infecting nearly 4,200 elderly residents considered particularly vulnerable to the virus and killing more than 1,200, according to new state Health Department data.
The staggering figures show a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases and fatalities at state-licensed nursing homes that are home to 100,000 residents.
There are now 4,170 confirmed COVID-19 positive cases at 312 New York nursing homes — more than half of all such facilities — along with 1,231 resident deaths, the data shows. Nearly 30 percent of all nursing home residents who contract COVID-19 eventually die from the virus, the data shows.
The latest data represents a 606% increase in nursing home cases, and a 1,331% hike in deaths since March 26.
New NY data shows COVID-19's devastating effect on nursing homes | Newsday
CNBC reports, "An estimated 13.9% of the New Yorkers have likely had Covid-19, according to preliminary results of coronavirus antibody testing released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday."
This is important.
"The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery stores and shopping locations across 19 counties in 40 localities to see if they had the antibodies to fight the coronavirus, indicating they have had the virus and recovered from it," Cuomo said.
These people had been infected by the virus but didn't know it.
"With more than 19.4 million people residents, according to U.S. Census data, the preliminary results indicate that at least 2.7 million New Yorkers have been infected with Covid-19."
This test helps to confirm what I have been saying all along. Healthy people, regardless of age, are unaffected by this virus, unless you count the effects of the common cold which occurs with some, although many are asymptomatic, according to other studies.It's Estimated 1 in 4 Coronavirus Carriers Could Be Asymptomatic. Here's What We Know
I wager it is a lot more than 25%. In this study 420 people went to the market and discovered they had been infected by Covid=19.
Deaths occur overwhelmingly in the sick and elderly, many of whom were already in a nursing home or hospital, along with the poor and the homeless who are bereft of health insurance. Reports of deaths not in those categories are so rare they make the six o'clock news and we are not informed of their condition.
