Comments Thread For: Roberto Duran Hospitalized, Tests Positive for COVID-19

[Willy Wanker]

Get well. Wish him a quick recovery.

[Nightfall]

Hope the champ makes it through this.

[Beercules]

He will be okay. Wish him to recover fully

[TonyGe]

COVID wasn't worth the steps we took. Blown way out of proportion to the scientific and actual facts.

No mater how many people succumb to it, 98.2% will be the elderly and sickly.

As of March..

[Boxing56]

People take this virus lightly. It's not just another flu, it's serious.

[Bunkerboy]

I had it for 3 weeks. Confirmed positive.

It’s really not all that. It’s more annoying than anything else.

The elderly, with underlying health conditions are at high risk.

If you are healthy, it will feel like a flu.

Everyone reacts differently, YMMV.

[Gary Coleman]

COVID wasn't worth the steps we took. Blown way out of proportion to the scientific and actual facts.

No mater how many people succumb to it, 98.2% will be the elderly and sickly.

It was absolutely worth the steps we took and are taking. You are aware that viruses can mutate?

It's no wonder why we haven't been able to flatten the curve here in the U.S. and why rates of infection are again rising.

[Thraxox]

Lord, please guide him. Dont take an another legend away from the sport.

[Smash]

most pepole who go to hospital with it end up ok but in some about 7 - 10 days in it can take a turn for the worse and u need ventilation and then its up in the air a bit, u may or may not make it

[Hnnnggg]

Yeah, i agree. But the vulnerable shouldve been told how best to protect themselves. In fact, Vit D can half the chance of colon cancer. So many benefits, so little interest from the media.

Reason being there’s still no general consensus on an optimal range of vitamin D intake. Check out this meta analysis on calcifediol levels associated with relative risks of both colorectal and DMII.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5334681/

The results from this meta analysis (based off of 24 studies) indicate that there’s an optimal concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D. Although the function of concentration to RR is inversely proportional, at higher levels there isn’t a decrease in RR. Essentially the graph that visualizes the relationship is U shaped.

So unless you’re getting labs on your serum Vitamin D regularly it’s unlikely that you’ll be aware or be able to tailor your nutritional needs to optimize the benefits. Nutrition is critical to reduce the likelihood of developing certain disease states but in regards to how you’re immune system will respond to foreign pathogens, that picture is less clear.

SARS CoV 2 is an especially virulent respiratory pathogen. Aside from an increase in cytokines activity that is natural to any immune response there seems to be measurable increases in ESR and d-dimers levels which could explain an exacerbation in those who suffer from cardiac disease. An increase in both these markers can reasonably increase the risk of an ischemic episode.

SARS CoV 2 is still an unknown quantity in many ways, it’s ridiculous how so many people write it off. The individuals who seem to not take it seriously are laymen to science and healthcare. It may have had an integral part in destroying economies but to the families who’ve lost loved ones, I’m doubtful they were more affected financially than emotionally. In the end we’re all human and we need to be considerate of the welfare of others.