There may be some misunderstanding of the term “mild” as applied to coronavirus
Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images A common refrain throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been something along the lines of this: 80 percent of people who become infected will suffer mild symptoms, or be asymptomatic. Obviously, getting sick without symptoms is the ideal , but many youngish, healthy people, including me, have reassured ourselves with that “mild.” We’ve all had colds and the flu before, we told ourselves — while the experience certainly isn’t fun, it is familiar.
There may, of course, be cases with even milder symptoms, for which patients don’t seek care and/or aren’t tested. Another Times story reported that COVID-19 “could be virtually indistinguishable from the common cold or seasonal flu.” According to Sean Morrison, the leading expert in geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital, “mild” refers to symptoms mild enough that patients don’t feel the need to call their doctors or go in for a visit.
Pneumonia is generally a miserable experience, and can cause other health complications — and in patients with COVID-19, says Morrison, it’s one of three apparent causes of death. “Deaths from COVID-19 occur for one of three reasons: lung failure because of pneumonia ; an infection overwhelming the body and resulting in sepsis; and kidney failure, again due to the load of the infection on the body.
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