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| Middletown, MD, 2021 |
Aria Bendix reports for Business Insider that extrapolations
from NYC data last spring suggest that only 13-18% of people infected by
coronavirus (detectable in nose, throat or saliva) develop significant symptoms.
There is some disagreement as to whether asymptomatic
people often spread infection and become superspreaders, even though they may
have enough natural resistance themselves not to become ill. This may have to do with genetics, youth, or
issues like metabolism. Younger adults
with low body mass index seem to almost never have significant systemic symptoms.
That might change with more contagious variants,
or perhaps even with those there will be no systemic disease with people who
have fewer ACE2 receptors. Genetics may be far more important than we realize, and that will be a very discomforting conclusion. But it may also suggest further treatments.
But there are other studies suggesting a small portion
of symptomatic people are responsible for most of the superspreading, or spread
may happen just before major symptoms appear.
But the idea that a “healthy” person is responsible
for the well-being of the unhealthy (like obese) sounds rather Marxist. But then consider the consequences of the
opposite. Fascism?
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