Coronavirus (non political)

[Chico23231]

Now that the data is reliable and testing has become widespread, the asymptomatic transmission feature has become the focal point and what makes this so dangerous.

In the county I live, the cluster area where half the cases have spread is a retirement-like center. They have tested every resident, approximately 33 tested negative, 35 are positive with mild to severe symptoms and 54 positive but asymptomatic. These are the most vulnerable people to the disease, the elderly. It’s killed probably 10-15 of the residents.

I guess my biggest question is of the 54 asymptomatic, how many will remain that way and how many will eventually show will get sick, meaning that the test caught them at the presymptomatic phase? The numbers of that split, how does it compare to other age groups? That people who stay asymptomatic throughout the run of the disease, how long does it stay in them versus how long are they transmissible carriers? And probably the most important, what are the quality of a person who’s body who stays asymptomatic, never to develop the sickness...why are they immune, is it just there body’s immune system is stronger, what makes it stronger?

[Buffalo Bob]

What I want to know is why haven't all the measures taken against the virus slowed it down?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

What I want to know is why haven't all the measures taken against the virus slowed it down?

I think it has but eventually it will be everywhere like the flu ,somehow ,someway we are all going to have to live with this . Like the early Polio virus .

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

What I want to know is why haven't all the measures taken against the virus slowed it down?

It doesn’t happen overnight


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[Giantone]

Some Common sense Info...................




https://www.yahoo.com/news/pathologi...231900328.html


Syra Madad, the senior director of the NYC Health + Hospitals System-wide Special Pathogens Program, and Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, debunked 13 of the most common myths about the coronavirus. They explained how packages from China won't make you sick and that getting COVID-19 is not a death sentence. They also debunked the idea that it affects only older people — anyone can get the coronavirus.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

What I want to know is why haven't all the measures taken against the virus slowed it down?

If you break the data down by county you’ll see the rate of spread has been slower in more educated counties where residents have more resources. In the poor urban areas it’s spreading much faster, people there are not heeding warnings and abiding stay at home orders. When I drive through North Philly people are out like a normal day. When you can’t afford to stock up you can’t afford to stay home for a full week, if you even know what’s going on.

But in areas where people are abiding social distancing, it’s working better. We’ll see two Americas present themselves with starkly different death rates in urban areas vs non urban.