COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[DHBirr]

And the news just gets better and better.  Testing of people in Hong Kong who recovered from the virus indicates some of them, perhaps as much as a quarter of the group, suffered lasting damage to their lungs, with a 20-30% loss of function.  Permanent?  That's unknown, yet.  The tested group is only twelve people so far, but this is still alarming.

Edit: And on a cheerier (well, no, actually snarkier) note, Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri wrote 12 March:

On Wednesday, the president sat behind the Resolute Desk and addressed the nation with soothing and accurate words about the coronavirus. Unfortunately none of the accurate things he said were soothing, and none of the soothing things he said were accurate.