Excerpts from an article in the Houston Chronicle about a 29 year old needing a double lung transplant after getting Covid. Jesus has long been the head of their family — the strong, solid worker who frequently travels from Cotija to Baytown for temporary jobs insulating pipes at chemical plants and oil refineries throughout the Gulf Coast region... At this point in the pandemic, 210 COVID-19 patients have received a lung transplant in the United States, including 16 at Houston Methodist — the most in Texas and third most in the country. These patients are on average 49 years old, 10 years younger than the average age of all other transplant recipients, and face devastating consequences. The operation carries the lowest survival rate of all solid organ transplants, which include the heart, liver and kidney. Only about 60 percent of lung transplant recipients survive after five years, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and 33 percent survive after 10 years. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne..._content=news_a&utm_campaign=HC_MorningReport
Very sad. Just not a reason to keep restrictions up. Although it is already clearly foreseeable that these cases and "the immuno-compromised" will be used by politicians wanting to keep their emergency powers to extend these for as long as possible.
Dude, I said nothing about restrictions and politics. Stop taking it there by bringing up political agenda. Just showing that Covid is nothing to take lightly, and sharing a story. By the way, this guy was young and fit and not some immuno-compromised old sick person like you insinuated.
Well, this is the D&D thread. If you just wanted to share a story, you could have done it in the Hangout thread. Kind of silly to complain about politics getting into a discussion...in the D&D, which was created for exactly that.
The good news, well, the not as bad news, is that the partisan gap does not appear to be growing, but in part because some of the vaccine-resistant have passed away. But its is truly a shame that politics contributed to so many unnecessary deaths...
CDC will curtail mask recommendations prior to the State of the Union speech, take that to the bank "science"
What's the difference of lifting mask mandates on or around February 28 as opposed to (for example) March 15?
This graph needs to enlarged. I think it tells the story of covid more than anything else: Vaccines Work
