Coping with Covid-19

[Ravioli]

I realized today that since I've been sheltered in place and socially distancing I'm smoking more cigars. One or two a day.

When I get mouth cancer, will I be in the Covid death count?

Inquiring minds....

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Yes, Covid induced cancer.

More seriously, I wonder how many will die because they put off cancer screenings and other routine preventative actions?

This has been estimated to amount to 33,890 per year in the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._and_multimorbidity_in_the_COVID-19_emergency

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

An article published today in the journal Nature references an article in the New England Journal of Medicine of a coronavirus treatment breakthrough.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01824-5?

Seriously good news.