{"id":91015,"date":"2020-03-27T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91015"},"modified":"2020-03-26T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T23:15:44","slug":"new-yorker-how-does-the-coronavirus-behave-inside-a-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91015","title":{"rendered":"(New Yorker) How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could the striking severity of their disease\u2014twenty- and thirty-year-olds with covid-19 generally experience a self-limited, flu-like illness\u2014be correlated with the amount of virus to which they were initially exposed? At least two E.R. doctors in the United States, both on the front lines of the pandemic, have also fallen critically ill; one of them, in Washington State, is only in his forties. To go by available data from Wuhan and Italy, health-care workers<\/a> don\u2019t necessarily have a higher fatality rate, but do they suffer, disproportionately, from the most severe forms of the disease? \u201cWe know the high mortality in older people,\u201d Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease specialist and vaccine scientist at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN. \u201cBut, for reasons that we don\u2019t understand, front-line health-care workers are at great risk for serious illness despite their younger age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In a 2004 study of the coronavirus that causes SARS, a team from Hong Kong found that greater exposure to the virus was correlated with a more severe illness. Could the same be true of COVID-19? https:\/\/t.co\/77xYEadwlm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n