Medical Reporting/Quick Guide for the Skeptical

What it's like to have COVID-19

• How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
• Surviving Covid-19 May Not Feel Like Recovery for Some

What Hospitalization for COVID-19 is Like

• I spent six days on a ventilator with covid-19. It saved me, but my life is not the same.

"Herd Immunity"

* Some have entertained the idea of “controlled voluntary infection,”9 akin to the “chickenpox parties” of the 1980s. However, COVID-19 is 100 times more lethal than the chickenpox. For example, on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the mortality rate among those infected with SARS-CoV-2 was 1%. Someone who goes to a “coronavirus party” to get infected would not only be substantially increasing their own chance of dying in the next month, they would also be putting their families and friends at risk. COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States, killing almost 2,000 Americans every day.8 Chickenpox never killed more than 150 Americans in a year.9
* To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune. Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold. Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue, over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time.

• Early Herd Immunity against COVID-19: A Dangerous Misconception
• Coronavirus Immunity and Reinfection
• 27 APR 2020 What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity

Reopening

• Relaxing All Social Distancing Behaviors Now Is a Huge Mistake
• How to Reopen America Safely