Thread: Rob Streeper - a USA member here - got the C19 virus

Rob, I hope you get better soon. There is nothing worse than chasing off a long illness.

Not so long ago (so it feels!) I managed to catch the Bird Flue (H1N1) while taking my daughter to the hospital (glandular fever). She'd run herself into the ground with study.

I was there about 4 hours, tops. It was a quiet night, so there was no waiting in ED, straight in, bed, doctor, blood tests, diagnosis, out.

Shortly after I had the worst flu I've ever had in my entire life. It was horrendous. All descriptions of the effects would fail the Naughty Words lists of the forum. A swab test at the doctors confirmed the DNA was "the one from the hospital". THANKS medical system!

It was like a continuous and violent tequila hangover, during a heavy metal concert, while being beaten by blunt cudgels.... all while the room felt it went from Arctic freezing to Saharan heat.

It took weeks to get over properly.

Rob - give us updates. There are many here keen to hear of first hand experiences.

Another experience.

Paul Garner: For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion - The BMJ

This sounds familiar.

medRxiv 2020.02.28.20029181; doi: Highly ACE2 Expression in Pancreas May Cause Pancreas Damage After SARS-CoV-2 Infection | medRxiv

Some more showing Covid 19 induced pancreatitis.

Pancreatic injury patterns in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia Redirecting

COVID-19 presenting as acute pancreatitis Redirecting

and hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia and the novel Covid-19 infection: Possible pathophysiologic mechanisms doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109699

Kawasakis in kids. Sterility in some men. Low sperm counts in others. Heart damage, lung damage, brain injuries....

Mutations... long term hiding... people getting "reinfected".

The gift that keeps on giving!

Pancreatitis and associated hyperglycemia now resolved. Also feeling stronger and rebuilding lost muscle mass. GI problems mostly resolved and vision near normal.

Glad to hear you are on the mend.

Originally Posted by Lappa

I communicate with my sister in California regularly and it appears the Governor is doing a great job - ignoring Trump and keeping the restrictions in place.

that's a bad joke. Newsome is incompetent, but he's lucky that foreign tourists don't see california as the same tourist destination that they see NYC. The epicenter of NYC (which includes where many work) is a huge tourist destination. I can't think of much other than a few points around LA (small areas that aren't economic centers, like hollywood) that attract tourists.

Trump incompetence doesn't make Newsome competent. They're both dweebs for different reasons.

Newsome has mastered never telling the truth or answering any question directly, though. Early in his career, he made the mistake of telling fibs to adam carolla (that he grew up poor when in fact, his dad was general counsel at a large corporation and his parents were divorced. So he claimed his mother's means made him poor when they didn't). He's full of stuff like that.

We can see the nastiness of trump, he shows it to everyone. People like Newsome are no better.

@Rob, any update on how you're doing mate?


I think of you poor buggers over there and the ... troubles... there are.

My son said to me only this morning that 1% of people in the USA now have the lurgie. Seems that 99% to go isn't such a welcoming number.

All, be safe.

Originally Posted by woodPixel

My son said to me only this morning that 1% of people in the USA now have the lurgie. Seems that 99% to go isn't such a welcoming number.

In the now closed thread on a very similar topic, BobL posted that serum testing in LA area about six weeks ago, indicated that around 1 in 8 persons had been exposed to Covid-19. BobL was projecting more than 40 million infections.
Myself? I think the actual number exposed is likely to be more than 100 million.

We can only hope that whatever the number is, it is +1

Interesting update from the US

“The news today is that hospitals are no longer to send their covid data to the Center for Disease Control but to the administration - this is a huge mistake as the CDC has opened its databases to all the researchers and modelers and this is how all the predictions are made. The administration database will not be open to researchers or modelers - we will see but it is most likely an attempt to hide the truth from the American public.”

Anything to get re-elected. Absolutely ANYTHING.