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Covid 19 virus
iMo:
Interestingly there is none child below 2-3 years of age infected. Why?
iMo:
Do you have a statistics from 5days to 3years of age?
cleanworkbench:
Oh well folks thanks for the insight , i just hope there's a very clever and highly skilled team out there in a lab somewhere .
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: cleanworkbench on February 27, 2020, 06:56:27 pm ---Oh well folks thanks for the insight , i just hope there's a very clever and highly skilled team out there in a lab somewhere .
--- End quote ---
It's actually more like "hope there is enough people working on this and coordinating with each other, because the 'haystack' they need to comb through is so vast".
The haystack being the genetic information in covid-19, and the "needle" being either some way of tagging it for immune system to attack, or a way to weaken the virus from infecting new cells or slowing or stopping the replication. Lots of possibilities, but only very, very few of them actually work, and all need to be tested to find the ones that do work.
0xdeadbeef:
While all of this becomes somewhat terrifying admittedly, it's important to keep the numbers in perspective. E.g. in Germany there are currently < 50 confirmed cases (numbers of the tracking sites are still quite old and vary around 26 but there were 20 new cases recently), thankfully still without any fatality. The number of confirmed influenza cases for this season is around 100k though with 161 fatalities and nobody really cares.
In the influenza season 2017/18, 25k (!) people died (about 0.03% of the population) in Germany and nobody panicked about that. And still lots of people don't even care about influenza vaccination.
So, yes. it's a serious thing, maybe a bit more serious than influenza if it really spreads worldwide but it's not the apocalypse. Just as with influenza, most people that die of it are either old or suffer from a serious pre-existing illness.
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