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THREAD: 'vaping disease' or #Covid19?
Throughout 2019 there was a serious lung disease going around in the USA. Scientists still don't know the cause, but at the time it was attributed to vaping. They called it #EVALI. 1/7
@Quamasparagi
Throughout 2019 there was a serious lung disease going around in the USA. Scientists still don't know the cause, but at the time it was attributed to vaping. They called it #EVALI. 1/7
@Quamasparagi
Symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, gastrointestinal problems.
"Thousands had lung damage that needed treatment in hospitals, and several died from the condition", "support with a ventilator". 2/7
"Thousands had lung damage that needed treatment in hospitals, and several died from the condition", "support with a ventilator". 2/7
Ratio of males to females diagnosed with EVALI is about 7 to 3 (i.e. more males get it).
"By far the most common imaging pattern, organizing pneumonia is marked by bilateral ground-glass opacity".
(anyone who's seen covid-19 x-rays will know why I'm adding this detail) 3/7
"By far the most common imaging pattern, organizing pneumonia is marked by bilateral ground-glass opacity".
(anyone who's seen covid-19 x-rays will know why I'm adding this detail) 3/7
"This is the first time I've seen systematic destruction of the lungs like this."
"Only a few cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported outside the USA (in Canada and Japan) and, so far [23 Oct 2019], none in Europe." 4/7
"Only a few cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported outside the USA (in Canada and Japan) and, so far [23 Oct 2019], none in Europe." 4/7
1 woman from Chicago, with "EVALI", travelled to Barcelona on Sept 2019, but don't know what happened as it's paywall.
In the US, 'EVALI' has almost disappeared since covid-19 emerged. 5/7
In the US, 'EVALI' has almost disappeared since covid-19 emerged. 5/7
Also of note are the 'mysterious' pneumonia / respiratory outbreaks in two (unrelated between them) care homes in Virginia, US. (There might be more, haven't looked further.) CDC were unable to find the cause of them. 6/7
End of thread 7/7
Sources:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/features/vaping-illness-symptoms#1
https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=rsna_2019&pag=dis&ItemID=127564
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2019/12/04/13993003.02076-2019
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2019/12/04/13993003.02076-2019
https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/news/more-mysterious-illness-cases-reported-at-ccrc-as-neighboring-facility-reports-an-outbreak-too/
Sources:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/features/vaping-illness-symptoms#1 https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=rsna_2019&pag=dis&ItemID=127564 https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2019/12/04/13993003.02076-2019 https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2019/12/04/13993003.02076-2019 https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/news/more-mysterious-illness-cases-reported-at-ccrc-as-neighboring-facility-reports-an-outbreak-too/
