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re: Another article on covid weakening.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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This is how other diseases played out
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox....they just disappeared like a miracle
2 of the 3 still exist, even in the US. The other was eradicated with vaccination.
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:42 pm to chunk
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I thought I remember reading how SARS and MERS both lost steam...
I can't remember which one, but one was much more infectious at 5 days of symptoms. You had more time to completely isolate infected patients, but I also think at that point it was also more likely a poor outcome for that isolated patient than Wuhan.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:46 pm to chunk
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I thought I remember reading how SARS and MERS both lost steam...
Yeah one of the things that makes viruses so difficult to deal with is the fact that they are constantly mutating...and sometimes they mutate themselves until the are not dangerous
Posted on 6/22/20 at 10:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Cholera
Still a huge problem globally and is controlled in the developed world mainly due to existence of antibiotics and modern sanitation practices.
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bubonic plague
Wiped out over a third of Europe’s population and still has a 10% mortality rate, 700 years later when treated with modern antibiotics.
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smallpox
Eliminated because of vaccination.
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they just disappeared like a miracle
Wut?
Posted on 6/22/20 at 10:13 pm to DeafJam73
How are hospitalizations in Texas? I have no clue so thanks.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:19 pm to chunk
I don't want COVID right now, even though I think this whole thing is some BS. I know I've been trashing this whole COVID thing, but it's got me scared a bit. I had incisional hernia surgery on the 11th, and got Pneumonia again so I'm still here in the hospital (still have it, but doing a little betteR). I tested negative for COVID, but there were some cases here. I'm already gonna be here for at least a couple more weeks, and I have a bowel blockage, which will likely need another surgery. FMITA.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:22 pm to Spankum
quote:Yeah viruses are subject to the same evolutionary pressures as everything else, survival of the fittest. And in the case of a virus, "fittest" tends to mean not killing the host so that it can spread more. And we apply even more selective pressure toward less severe mutations by identifying and isolating the worst cases from others to reduce their spread.
Yeah one of the things that makes viruses so difficult to deal with is the fact that they are constantly mutating...and sometimes they mutate themselves until the are not dangerous
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