If you contract the virus...how long does it take

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

to run it’s course and be out of your system? I understand it varies with age and underlying health issues. But for a healthy, middle aged, non smoker with no underlying health issues, how long am I looking?

Appreciate any info that can be given.

 

[Raiderdawg.sixpack]

to run it’s course and be out of your system? I understand it varies with age and underlying health issues. But for a healthy, middle aged, non smoker with no underlying health issues, how long am I looking?

Appreciate any info that can be given.

Estimates are ~5 days to show symptoms, but they could show up to 14 days or even a few days past 14 in some cases.

If you have mild case, symptoms typically go away in 1-2 weeks.

If you get a severe case, symptoms may take 3-6 weeks.

 

[AnonymousUser]

No one is 100% sure. This thing is so new, there is little peer reviewed, large scale studies done to get decent data. What we know is what we’ve seen in other countries and a lot of it is anecdotal or not applicable to our population here yet. But there are two phases when tracking the disease course: incubation which is nonsymptomatic and then when you are symptomatic. Incubation is ranging from a few days to up to 21 days and symptomic phase can be a few days to a few weeks if you are unfortunate enough to require a complicated hospital stay. Being middle aged and healthy is (falsely) said to be “no big deal” and maybe no symptoms at all to maybe a flu level illness for several days.

However, it should be noted that here and in Europe “healthy” middle aged people are having to be hospitalized and sometimes incubated but not as high of rates elderly.

A new new article looked at Italy’s most recent figures and it seems more younger people are having to be hospitalized than when it all first started.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...le-hospital-luca-lorini-bergamo-a9402531.html


link to official Italian report (in Italian not translated)
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/corona...eglianza-integrata-COVID-19_12-marzo-2020.pdf

 

[thatsbaseball]

How would you rate the Italian health care system ?

 

[FQDawg]

There's no guarantee that being middle-aged and healthy will make contracting the virus "no big deal."

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_35531ff4-66d9-11ea-95b0-7797f71d169a.html

 

[AnonymousUser]

Agreed

 

[AnonymousUser]

How would you rate the Italian health care system ?

They have fewer ICU beds per 100,000 people, but their doctors are first world. Quality of healthcare is first world. The region hit the hardest has a the largest concentration of Chinese in Europe, around 200,000 live there. They were slow to stop travel from China early on. Part of the reason it’s so out of control there.

 

[thatsbaseball]

The reason I ask is my daughter's best friend, her husband and child were in Italy last year when she became very ill with a kidney problem. She was very sick and in the hospital 21 days and never got see a doctor. This couple is well educated and reasonably wealthy (husband's father is a doctor). It was a really bad situation. It was their intention to stay in Italy for an extended period of time but left and aren't going back. Very admittedly I'm not an authority (understatement) and this case could be an anomaly but it damn sure happened.

 

[Ralph Cramden]

Plenty of people have little to no symptoms. Some is comparable to the flu or bronchitis. And sure....Italy has great health care...lol. Doubtful. About like Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world.

 

[dorndawg]

Plenty of people have little to no symptoms. Some is comparable to the flu or bronchitis. And sure....Italy has great health care...lol. Doubtful. About like Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world.

You are breathtakingly uninformed.

In 2000 Italy's healthcare system was regarded, by World Health Organization's ranking, as the 2nd best in the world after France, and according to the World Health Organization, Italy has the world's 6th highest life expectancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Italy

 

[johnson86-1]

You are breathtakingly uninformed.

In 2000 Italy's healthcare system was regarded, by World Health Organization's ranking, as the 2nd best in the world after France, and according to the World Health Organization, Italy has the world's 6th highest life expectancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Italy

There is a lot that goes into that ranking that doesn’t involve quality of care. I’m sure they probably do have good healthcare, but I wouldn’t take that ranking to mean anything like they offer the second best quality of care behind France.

 

[o_fredgarvin]

There's no guarantee that being middle-aged and healthy will make contracting the virus "no big deal."

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_35531ff4-66d9-11ea-95b0-7797f71d169a.html

There is no guarantee about anything, but, statistically, the odds are very, very low if you are less than 60 years that an infection will kill you.