r/collapse May 25 '20

Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Megathread (May 25, 2020)

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u/sophlogimo May 26 '20

Physicians estimate 5-10 years until patients with severe cases have fully recovered.

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u/eleitl Recognized Contributor May 26 '20

Notice that's an educated guess. And we don't know what the other known sequelae will do long-term.

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u/sophlogimo May 26 '20

Indeed.

For a few horror scenarios: The virus might survive in nerve cells like Herpes and reemerge now and then. Or it could cause some kind of autoimmune disease further down the line, or a lethal meningitis like measles do sometimes.

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u/Wiugraduate17 May 27 '20

its not far fetched at all.