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Originally Posted by Captainzing  I just wish there was a rhyme or reason to it. How do some 100 year olds survive and 30 year olds die from it |
No doubt it depends on each patient's DNA and whether they have the resident ability to even partially fight off the initial attacking virus as well as whatever you might lack in the ability to fight off secondary problems, such as circulatory problems, clotting problems. Then the viral load you first get - just how much of that speck of fluid was infected and how many initial loads of it you took in and whether your strain of it is as hardy as another patient's. Your state of health when you contract it, your early reactions and your medical provider's initial reactions, treatment, whether or not you were able to get further and secondarily infected by your own providers' ability to keep a wholly sterile, safe treatment facility, the providers' levels of adequate staffing, such as whether they accept only top-flight medical staff and nursing applicants, their levels of ability and on and on, What might seem like smart treatment on that patient might turn out to be what opened a larger pathway to their eventual death, together with other complicating conditions, such as older folks have compared to most younger adults and children.
Whatever medications you were taking - could the virus use that against you defenses or as a pathway into your cells or defeating certain immune responses more readily, such as are ace-inhibitors of blood pressure and other medication are suspected to be. Could be a contributing factor to many older patients' higher death rates or maybe anyone of whatever age taking them for HBP, increased circulation.
In 2 years we'll likely have a handle on it but until then, we have to be grateful for the fact that this version of novel coronavirus seems relatively tame compared to how awful it could have been.