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Originally Posted by Zizu

He explained better than I can but basically if you lose 2kg of muscle mass each DAY for 14 to 21 days or more .. you will be a terrible state for a very long time .

We’re talking about losing 2kg or 4lb of muscle every day !!

I didn’t even know we had that much muscle mass


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Again Zizu you literallly can't lose 2kg of muscle a day for 21 days. You do not have 42kg of muscle (unless you're a bodybuilder or a pro wrestler or something... MAYBE a 6'2 Rugby player).

I think 2kg is the absolute peak of muscle loss, and again it applies to anyone in a medical coma / on ventilator, it's not a Covid thing.

With a lot of muscle loss yes it could take months to rebuild that muscle afterwards... muscle deteriorates a LOT faster than it builds. The "years" claim is likely because a lot of the people affected will be older/frail already and thus not able to engage in more intensive physiotherapy. It should really be 6 months max for a younger adult.