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Fresh8686 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Listening to Mark Warner and some doctor. I think they are calling everyone in VA for a phone town hall and Q&A session about COVID-19. Its good to see them doing stuff like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrFan Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine would be effective, according to Professor Raoult of the IHU in Marseille, after a first limited test 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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No Excuses Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Never stop grifting at light speed. Evil people empowered by dumb people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) I’m not sure how Italy’s can have people waiting for morgues unless that’s what they normally do... 2500 dead because of corona virus.. 68,000 dead during the 2016-2017 flu season... so if the flu season is like 6? months that’s 10,000 dead a month.... we added 1200 a month dead and all of a sudden we can’t bury the dead in time? what am I missing... Edited March 17, 2020 by CousinsCowgirl84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 44 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: Am I the only one getting frustrated with how many rich people doing just fine are getting these tests no problem? We have drive through testing in my area with a prescription 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: what am I missing... 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDawg Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Someone smarter than me help me understand something. Viruses branch off typically for survival. There are strong strains and weak strains. The strong strains, typically, die out because they kill the carriers. So a virus’ best way to survive is to mutate weaker so that the recipients are strong enough to pass it on and not bedridden due to it. The obvious difference was in 1918 when the front lines got hit hard with the flu. The people who were functioning on the front lines (people with weaker strain) stayed and fought. The people who got knocked down by the stronger strain got taken 100 miles back to hospitals and passed the strain around. So given this information, and this is where I need some help here: Wouldnt it be okay if the majority of people contracted the strain that seems fairly asymptomatic in order to build antibodies? Isn’t that essentially the function of the vaccine? I’m not advocating to purposely get it. It’s obviously dangerous ground to tread. But if you got the weaker strain, wouldn’t that almost completely prevent you from being ravaged by the stronger strain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 1 minute ago, AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy said: Literally nothing thanks for your contribution... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FrFan Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, KDawg said: Wouldnt it be okay if the majority of people contracted the strain that seems fairly asymptomatic in order to build antibodies? Isn’t that essentially the function of the vaccine? What I was thinking too. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-comments-about-herd-immunity/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) The problem with heard immunity is the sudden surge of patients when in spreads initially... Edited March 17, 2020 by CousinsCowgirl84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, Xameil said: We have drive through testing in my area with a prescription When only a fraction of the military has been tested and sitting ducks in countries like South Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, FanboyOf91 said: 20%? I'm thinking we need a lockdown, that's gonna apply to like 80%. - - - - I asked a few weeks back, that I think if I was a hospital administrator, I'd be looking if there was some place I could send 20% of my staff, to get infected, so they'd be immune. Someone pointed out that, even if you ignore the pesky detail that, if you send 100 employees off to get infected, then 20 of them are going to be hospitalized, (and 1-2 of them will die), That there's a few cases of people getting over the disease, and then getting it again 3-4 weeks later. There might not be immunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDawg Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: The problem with heard immunity is the sudden surge of patients when in spreads initially... Except there seems to be a strain that is showing no symptoms. Unless those tests are false positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatteredFanSyndrome Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 55 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said: Always knew you were hill people. Top of the hill people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, FanboyOf91 said: Insane Edited March 17, 2020 by Mr. Sinister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PCS Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615375/what-is-herd-immunity-and-can-it-stop-the-coronavirus/ Quote What is herd immunity and can it stop the coronavirus? Once enough people get Covid-19, it will stop spreading on its own. But the costs will be devastating. The more infectious a virus is, the more people need to be immune for us to achieve herd immunity. Measles, one of the most easily transmitted diseases with an R0 over 12, requires about 90% of people to be resistant for unprotected people to get a free ride from the herd. That’s why new outbreaks can start when even small numbers of people opt out of the measles vaccine. Similarly, if the coronavirus spreads more easily than the experts think, more people will need to get it before herd immunity is reached. For an R0 of 3, for example, 66% of the population has to be immune before the effect kicks in, according to the simplest model. Whether it’s 50% or 60% or 80%, those figures imply billions infected and millions killed around the world, although the more slowly the pandemic unfolds, the greater the chance for new treatments or vaccines to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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