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A girl I went through school from the second grade, even our first two years at a community college, passed away last night. 48 year old non-smoker, no health issues, mother of two and a wife. A great girl, gone.
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Really sorry to hear this Brock. Sad that this happens to people and is destroying families. I wonder if she had an undiagnosed health condition that didn't manifest symptoms. I've tried to keep an eye on the data for hospitalization rates among age groups and coexisting conditions. Occasionally there is an outlier like this that doesn't make sense, yet it is someone's reality.
The hospitalization rate for people in their 40s across the board hovers right around 2.5% and almost all of those have health conditions like diabetes, lung conditions etc. And that's 2.5% of the known cases, it's estimated that some 80%+ of people don't show symptoms. Even people in their 50s who have a higher hospitalization rate at 7% of known cases only have a 1% mortality rate. If the unknown case rate of 80% is factored into that, the mortality rate is something like 0.2% for people in their 50s. And almost every single one of them had comorbid health issues. Then something like this happens to your friend and it's just unexplainable. Unfortunatly I haven't been able to locate any authoritative sources on autopsy data for post-death diagnosis of undiagnosed conditions, heart murmur, malformed valve, aortic blockage etc. Something that just doesn't make sense. Too young and a family missing their mom. Sad.