Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

At Sheba, as of Sunday morning, there were 55 patients in serious condition, among them 13 in the coronavirus intensive care unit being run by Dr. Yael Haviv Hadid. She told the Post that of those patients, five of them are being treated on ECMO machines – all of them under 54 years old.
In addition, there were five people intubated – all of them under the age of 55.
“We see young patients much more serious than we ever saw with young people in the past,” Haviv Hadid said.

In September of last year, the patient was diagnosed with COVID after experiencing mild fever and shortness of breath and receiving a positive PCR swab test. He recovered within a few days and tested negative twice in December.
In January, about four months after initially testing positive, the patient entered the hospital with recurrent shortness of breath and fever and tested positive for the novel coronavirus again. Genome sequencing found that he was now infected with the South African variant. About a week after arriving at the hospital, the patient developed severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and was intubated and put on a ventilator.