- Username
- ragolrappy
- Date posted
- 4y ago
There's a 2% rate of mortality. 80% of cases in China were mild cases. I know it's scary right now, but it'll be okay!
So if I’m only 26 and am (apart from mentally) pretty healthy, I shouldn’t be too affected?
Ania is right. The majority of the population will be infected but some will not show any symptoms, a bunch will get what looks like a cold, a bunch will get more significant symptoms that makes them feel awful but they can manage at home. A few will get so sick they need to be in the hospital, and of those, only some will die. It's a scary time, but not reason to panic. Follow the cdc and government guidelines. Plus, your behaviors are a model for your child. If you make this into a end of the world level catastrophe, that is what they will think it is too.
@NOCD Advocate - Katie I think I’m having a very hard time grasping this information. Before this sickness left China, I was worried. And I remember seeing many videos of kids dying.. it was so triggering. Why kids?
@ragolrappy Im starting to think you aren't getting information from reliable sources. The death rate for people ages 10-39 is 0.2%. deaths in children younger than that are so rare that they aren't reporting them. Here's an article with accurate statistics https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/who-is-getting-sick-and-how-sick-a-breakdown-of-coronavirus-risk-by-demographic-factors/
@NOCD Advocate - Katie People under age 18 made up less than 3 percent of all reported cases
@NOCD Advocate - Katie Thank you for this link. I feel a bit more calm
Sixty to seventy percent of the population will get the virus. The precautions we are being asked to take right now aren't to stop any individual from getting the virus, they're to slow the number of people who get the virus at the same time, so that the small percentage of people with the virus who need hospital care can all get the help they need without overwhelming the capacity of our medical system
If that many people will get the virus, then whats the point. I don’t want to die. But if we all caught this, then we are all basically just awaiting death. Even if people did recover, they come out with irreversible lung damage. This is a nightmare and I’m so afraid.
Where did you get the 60-70 percent figure
@ragolrappy I'll send you an article that explains in more detail. Only a small percentage of people who get the virus will die. We are trying to reduce that number further by ensuring we have hospital beds for everyone who ends up needing them. The strategy is called "flattening the curve"
@Escapement That number came from my mom who is a physician
I work for a hospital. Try to stay calm, limit your news intake as they feed on peoples fear. Check out the cdc website or www.ny.gov for accurate info.
You’re going to be fine. You will be fine. We’re all in this together. It’s okay.
Yes I too am lockdown and feeling worried and isolated I am worrying about my son who has OCD and I am bipolar and I think we share some of the same symptoms. I worried that his caring for me May trigger some OCD compulsions. I am a senior and living in a new state I had to move due to illness but I'm having a hard time withall of this. I do not really know what the best way is to communicate with my son. He has to do shopping for me and take care of my mail and I worry it is too much for him. I still have a mother's instinct to protect him even though he is grown and even has a beard with gray in it he is still my little boy and I want to protect him. I even want to protect him from me and my symptoms of bipolar.
i’m having panic attacks about this coronavirus . im literally scared to leave my house idk what to do.
I’m trying so hard to not feel anxious about the coronavirus but I feel like everyone around me is panicking. They’re canceling all of the sports at my school and they just cancelled prom and there’s talk about closing school for two weeks. I’m trying not to freak out but how can I not when I’m surrounded by panic??
Really need some support/advice right now. I’ve had multiple panic attacksbecause of everything that’s going on right now with this pandemic. I just really need some help but I know I’m not supposed to ask for reassurance. Everyone is panicking, even people w/out OCD which makes me panic even more. I honestly feel like I need to go to a psychiatric hospital or something, I’m just afraid of having a complete meltdown. I haven’t really been able to go anywhere such as grocery store, gas station, etc. bc I don’t want to touch anything.
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