You obviously haven't met me but I had it, got it at Thanksgiving. Me, mid-30s average health (possibly above-average for an American). It was a mild cold. I had fever for a couple days, by day 4 I'd been fever-free for 24 hours and felt totally normal. I just cleared my "isolation" period and I've been totally fine for a week.
Several of us got it ranging from ages 0 to 80. There were 8 of us that got it. No one under age 60 got anything more than a mild cold except perhaps a few saying they can't taste and smell. One 60-something had to go to the hospital, but this person isn't exactly healthy anyway, has a lot of the issues they mentions as making it worse, and a history of respiratory illness as well. Was treated with one of the drugs (Remdesvir I believe) and is now home doing a lot better. The oldest two (high 70s-80) both visited the ER with mild symptoms as a precautionary and were given some sort of treatment and sent home. Here we are over 2 weeks into patient zero's case and most of us are totally fine and the worst cases are improving.
If I had to suspect the vast majority of the recent deaths were either nursing homes or waited until it got way too bad to seek treatment. Let's be honest, most nursing home residents are on the way out already, the residents there are there because they are the picture of health. I'm sure there's a few freak ones too, I saw a bunch of people arguing on Comraddit about a guy my age who was "totally healthy" that died. He looked a decent amount overweight to me, and I wouldn't be shocked if had high blood pressure, or a vitamin deficiency, or a number of things that I've gone through myself that if I hadn't been diligent about annual physical I never would have known about.
You obviously haven't met me but I had it, got it at Thanksgiving. Me, mid-30s average health (possibly above-average for an American). It was a mild cold. I had fever for a couple days, by day 4 I'd been fever-free for 24 hours and felt totally normal. I just cleared my "isolation" period and I've been totally fine for a week.
Several of us got it ranging from ages 0 to 80. There were 8 of us that got it. No one under age 60 got anything more than a mild cold except perhaps a few saying they can't taste and smell. One 60-something had to go to the hospital, but this person isn't exactly healthy anyway, has a lot of the issues they mentions as making it worse, and a history of respiratory illness as well. Was treated with one of the drugs (Remdesvir I believe) and is now home doing a lot better. The oldest two (high 70s-80) both visited the ER with mild symptoms as a precautionary and were given some sort of treatment and sent home. Here we are over 2 weeks into patient zero's case and most of us are totally fine and the worst cases are improving.
If I had to suspect the vast majority of the recent deaths were either nursing homes or waited until it got way too bad to seek treatment. Let's be honest, most nursing home residents are on the way out already, the residents there are there because they are the picture of health. I'm sure there's a few freak ones too, I saw a bunch of people arguing on Comraddit about a guy my age who was "totally healthy" that died. He looked a decent amount overweight to me, and I wouldn't be shocked if had high blood pressure, or a vitamin deficiency, or a number of things that I've gone through myself that if I hadn't been diligent about annual physical I never would have known about.