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FakeNoose

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3. It's the time lag between initial exposure
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:44 AM
Mar 2020

... to feeling the initial symptoms - up to 2 weeks.
... to deciding to see a doctor, finding one, getting the test done - another 1 to 2 weeks.
... getting the diagnosis - another week.
... symptoms get bad enough that you have to check into the hospital - ?
... finally get so sick that you can't recover - ?

We're still in the early stages of everything here in Pennsylvania. I'm in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and they just announced the first Covid-19 death yesterday. It was a woman who was not elderly, but she had been working at a popular restaurant when she suddenly had trouble breathing. She was taken to a local hospital, and she died less than a week later. How many people were exposed to Covid while she worked at the restaurant? How many of her co-workers also got the virus (no symptoms showing yet) and started passing it on?

All of this happened just a day or two before the lockdown in Pennsylvania. The numbers haven't been reported yet because it's still too soon to know.

Stay home and wash your hands everyone!


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