COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

nolastyle said

Look to the past to define the future. Very, very similar to the SARS virus of 2004, also a strain of coronavirus. A predominantly respiratory disease that viciously attacks other body systems as it worsens, causing a cascade of organ failure and, eventually, death. From way back:



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167720/#__ffn_sectitle

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A "first step" indeed, but as the experts quoted in the Wash Post article note, SARS (and MERS) infected a tiny fraction of what SARS2 has infected - and both SARS and MERS infections brought fatal respiratory manifestations in a much higher percentage of those infected . . . so we never really had the opportunity to study broader impact on the body and its systems.