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Most people who get COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms like coughing, a fever, and shortness of breath. But some who catch the new coronavirus get severe pneumonia in both lungs. COVID-19 pneumonia is a serious illness that can be deadly.
For US adults, pneumonia is the most common cause of hospital admissions other than women giving birth. About 1 million adults in the US seek care in a hospital due to pneumonia every year, and 50,000 die from this disease.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Blue_Jay33
From my understanding pneumonia is something that happens as a result of the persons immune system working in over drive to rid what ever is plaguing the host, can be bacteria, fungal, or a virus like Covid.
Covid is a respiratory illness which can easily attack the lungs, so the body will send a wave of white blood cells there to fight it off, that turns into a build up of fluid and then, pneumonia.
originally posted by: markovian
This is where I think smokers carve out a advantage
Smokers know how to clear there lungs and are stronger at doing it that smokers cough is making your diaphragm stronger and the past experience of dealing with thick sticky mucus prepares them better to fight
Smokers are also more likely to take gaffusin and long hot showers to break up the mucus its just something you learn to do to deal with the effects of smoking
originally posted by: markovian
This is where I think smokers carve out a advantage
Smokers know how to clear there lungs and are stronger at doing it that smokers cough is making your diaphragm stronger and the past experience of dealing with thick sticky mucus prepares them better to fight
Smokers are also more likely to take gaffusin and long hot showers to break up the mucus its just something you learn to do to deal with the effects of smoking
originally posted by: xuenchen
"WITH" becomes "OF" 🙀
the latest problem is this sticky larnyx flem that is clinging to throat/airway passage and making swallowed spit to leak into airway instead of stomach passage way .... possibly draining into lungs that results in development of pneumonia distress
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: xuenchen
"WITH" becomes "OF" 🙀
If you try to murder somebody by stabbing them, and they survive the stabbing but the wound gets infected and they die, you're still considered to have killed them.
It's the same with covid, if you suffer renal failure because of covid then covid killed you even if the ultimate cause of death was renal failure.
originally posted by: teapot
a reply to: Blue_Jay33
Treatment and outcome are also related. For C19 pneumonia, WHO recommendations were intubate & ventilate. Many hospitals followed this advice. I know two people, both otherwise healthy in their early 30's who developed (pre C19) pneumonia. One was intubated/ventilated, died within a week. The other had high strength antibiotics injected directly into the lungs, walked out of hospital and 3 decades later, still living a healthy life.
As I understand it, covid differs from other flu's and colds with blood clotting. Covid pneumonia includes blood clotting in the lungs. I don't actually believe anyone has died of covid. All deaths for those who contracted C19 and went on to die, died of pneumonia and inappropriate treatment that exacerbated the inflammatory issues with the blood clots.