With most viruses, and from I've read this virus isn't any different, the majority of symptoms come from the immune system's response to the virus. E.g. a fever is just your immune system trying to flush out a virus.
I think it will still take months for the numbers to stabilize globally. US is currently the country with the highest daily growth rate and not all states have taken adequate measures. The states which did take measures mostly took them in the past few days/week so they will still contribute to the growth for a few more days. The states which have not taken significant measures will be contributing to the growth for another month. Many countries have not taken adequate measures and could contribute to another wave of infections. I really hope summer will help suppress the growth rate, but even if that's the case autumn and winter will be scary as new waves of infection might flare up.
I hope this can be generalized to the wider population but the small sample size of the study (N=8) makes it insignificant.
Too optimistic... Brazil is 2 weeks behind the USA, it will blow next month in here. Depending on hoe you see our numbers we are either between Spain and Italy (when they were starting) or even worse than Italy. Add to that that we dont have such infrastructure (but at least we have free universal healthcare, unlike USA) and that our governors have to literally fight against the president in order to protect the population from the virus.
China had a second reinfection wave because they lifted the restrictions too soon iirc. I dont think that's something we should aim for.
Problem is the "China reached herd immunity" train of thought doesn't really line up with Italy's numbers. Like:
How do you explain a country the size of Italy having twice the deaths of a country the size of China if China had hit herd immunity?10:42 PM (CST):
Almost all of China's new cases are imported from abroad at this point, the issue isn't so much that they lifted restrictions too soon.
I was walking around the other day, and I noticed more people on the street, and a few less masks here and there in Seoul. Hopefully, people aren't becoming too complacent.
Is that a good thing or not? Like is it a good idea to have a Virus in your body like that even if it seems harmless?
No, like everything selection favors higher fitness. If for example a virus has too high of a mortality it will be harder to spread and that line will go down in the overall population while a less deadly and more infectious virus would increase in the population. Just evolution.
Because it's not flu
Because a ton of diseases appear to come from bats, and because it's not caused by influenza and is therefore not a "flu."
Depends on your state. No way NY NJ CT WA CA go back to work next week - they all have hotspot cases. Any state starting stay-at-home now,will have to go through their own two-week eval period as they construct drive-thru testing sites. There is no actual 15-day challenge outside of VP Pence's one sheet of paper.
These stats are very misleading because the fact that it's so extremely deadly for the elderly overshadows how it's still very deadly for the non-elderly. Ratio of the ages of the dead aren't really relevant to anything. Also, high blood pressure is a "serious health condition" you left out even though it's the most common comorbidity by far.
Of course it can still be deadly to younger people, and yes hypertension appears to be the top pre-existing condition that can increase chances of death, something that people have increasingly as they get older.
Its not a conscious decision, just millions of years of evolution and natural selection.
Yeah but I would still not be alarmed by that statistic because it does not take into account younger people with preexisting medical conditions and diseases like HIV, Coronary Heart Disease, Cancers or Lung diseases.
Number of infections is definitely much higher and fatality rate much lower than estimated in my opinion. I really wish we could test an entire city of ~100k people in Germany or Italy or wherever to get a better idea.
So my point still stands. We shouldn't jump to the false conclusion that it's save to reduce measures after 2-4 weeks when it took china almost 3-4 month.
off topic but. thats some amazing picture quality! lol what camera is it?I was walking around the other day, and I noticed more people on the street, and a few less masks here and there in Seoul. Hopefully, people aren't becoming too complacent.
Extra points if there's a "mission accomplished" banner.
Yeah, that has already caused quite some commotion in Austrian politics and the press. Let's just say people are not happy with how Tyrolean authorities have handled Ischgl and how it's very apparent it's not politicians who run the show, but the tourism industry.
How an Austrian ski resort helped coronavirus spread across Europe
Henrik Lerfeldt has fond memories of Kitzloch, a popular restaurant and bar in the Austrian ski resort town of Ischgl, where he partied several nights while on vacation three weeks ago.edition.cnn.com
playing beer pong while pandemic
result: hundreds of cases
