Thread:Crowsoul50/@comment-33229352-20200116030855/@comment-33229352-20200129181915

I'm no hypochondriac but like I do be sick with a severe cold rn and coronavirus presents as a cold and I'm in a state with confirmed cases, along with someone from my school being tested for it 👀

So y'know, I'm just casually looking up symptoms which probably will not help, but its actually impossible to tell if these sniffles are caused by a rhinovirus (cold) or a coronavirus without a blood test. We've all had a corona virus at some point, but the reason this coronavirus is bad is because the host cell will find another cell in the respiratory system, then make it burst and infect other cells nearby. This can make people have pneumonia and swelling of the lungs, to the point they can fill with fluid and people literally drown or their lungs become so inflamed that oxygen can no longer pass through it and your organs fail. However, since it is pretty much just a bad cold, really the only people that have died are older people, who tend to have weaker immune systems, those who are immunocompromised, and people who had preexisting conditions.