Pneumonia can be very tricky for the very young and the very old.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
In the pre-antibiotic era, pneumonia had a 30 – 40% mortality rate. Even today, severe pneumonia has a 20% mortality rate in the elderly.
Pneumonia—understatement warning—is a horrible affliction for anyone. For PF, with already diminished lung capacity: dire. JMJ