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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19


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I know it was the weekend and reporting is always down on the weekend but yesterday there wasn’t a single state that reported triple digit Covid deaths. I think that’s the first time I’ve seen that. And 50% of the states reported ZERO deaths on Sunday. It’ll be interesting to see what the numbers look like tomorrow.

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11 hours ago, GG said:

I'll go out on a limb and predict that this will not lead to a large uptick in serious cases.

 

Yep, the age demographic of these people stand about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying even if they did contract it.

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25 minutes ago, LB3 said:

 

 

 

I'm gonna be THAT guy and point out another obvious. The streets also would not have been empty if people were not on lockdown during these protests/riots. Stores and restaurants would also have been staffed.  

 

ALL of this; lockdown, shutdowns, crashing the economy, unemployment; will all prove to have been unnecessary if we don't see a huge spike following the last few days. 

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5 minutes ago, Cinga said:

 

I'm gonna be THAT guy and point out another obvious. The streets also would not have been empty if people were not on lockdown during these protests/riots. Stores and restaurants would also have been staffed.  

 

ALL of this; lockdown, shutdowns, crashing the economy, unemployment; will all prove to have been unnecessary if we don't see a huge spike following the last few days. 

We are under attack by enemies foreign and domestic. Right after the impeachment collapse, all hell broke loose...starting off the most consequential election year in our lifetimes.

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Coronavirus seems so less important now.   

 

Anyway, this seems relevant. 

 

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ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

 

“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus contagion.

“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,” he told RAI television.

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Zangrillo said some experts were too alarmist about the prospect of a second wave of infections and politicians needed to take into account the new reality.

“We’ve got to get back to being a normal country,” he said. “Someone has to take responsibility for terrorizing the country.”

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A second doctor from northern Italy told the national ANSA news agency that he was also seeing the coronavirus weaken.

“The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today,” said Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital in the city of Genoa.

“It is clear that today the COVID-19 disease is different.”

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

Absolutely not. He neither contracted nor was cured of or died from the Wuhan virus. 
Furthermore he has not yet filed for double blind clinical trials which wouldn’t be completed for three to four years. Clearly he’s jumped the gun on this. 

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2 minutes ago, Nanker said:

Absolutely not. He neither contracted nor was cured of or died from the Wuhan virus. 
Furthermore he has not yet filed for double blind clinical trials which wouldn’t be completed for three to four years. Clearly he’s jumped the gun on this. 

Damn. I am wrong again.

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