Grandfather's 'Miracle' COVID-19 Recovery

[icyfroth]

Let's have a survival story for a change:

Ten days ago, Kathleen Watson thought she'd spoken to her husband Ken for the final time.

The 70-year-old grandfather had lost consciousness and was struggling to breathe – placed in a coma as coronavirus ravaged his body.

He had been without medical care for 12 hours while quarantined in a Perth hotel.

"But today he's got his strong voice back and it was absolutely – it's a miracle," Mrs Watson told 9News.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/grandfathers-miracle-covid-19-recovery-after-falling-into...

He will have to return multiple negative test results before he's released into self-isolation with Mrs Watson, who has formed antibodies against the killer virus.

[dontmissthese]

Our immune systems are not always friendly.

Diseases such as covid-19 and influenza can be fatal due to an overreaction of the body’s immune system called a cytokine storm.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/term/cytokine-storm/#ixzz6JZsVxiD1

[not_for_sale2025]

"Cosmologically speaking we are all little more than a bacterial film on a soft rock hurtling through an unimaginable void.
Don't take it all too seriously".

Well at present the soft rock is looking much healthier because of little more than a microscopic virus. I'll start taking it less seriously when that little virus stops killing people.

[go-tazz]

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@icyfroth wrote:
Ok, so shoot me if I'm oversimplifying this, but don't they take amounts of a given disease and inject it into ppl so they can build up immunity to it? Isn't that basically the vaccine?

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https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/how-vaccines-are-made

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/how-vaccines-work

[davewil1964]

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@not_for_sale2025 wrote:

"Cosmologically speaking we are all little more than a bacterial film on a soft rock hurtling through an unimaginable void.
Don't take it all too seriously".

Well at present the soft rock is looking much healthier because of little more than a microscopic virus. I'll start taking it less seriously when that little virus stops killing people.

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You are correct. There were heaps of before and after pictures on this evening's news. Most of the befores show smog, most of the afters show what is there.

[dontmissthese]

We always had a choice regarding cleaning up our planet.

The price was invariably massive unemployment.

Looks like our planet is becoming cleaner because we are

involuntarily paying the price.