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Unless you have a very weak immune system or you are an elderly (50+) I wouldn't worry to much about this.
Also, I still have one parent and don't want to lose her.
Unless you have a very weak immune system or you are an elderly (50+) I wouldn't worry to much about this.
Unless you have a very weak immune system or you are an elderly (50+) I wouldn't worry to much about this.
do you really think that Italy and China wanted to put a stop to their economic activity with quarantines for no reason?
Don't think it will happen ? Guess again, take a look at M.D. Anderson in Houston, most famous cancer treatment facility. Few years ago they started admittance only on CASH UP FRONT, like serious cash down payment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you really think that Italy and China wanted to put a stop to their economic activity with quarantines for no reason?
Sometimes politicians look good for having "done something" because there is no counterfactual to compare against to create accountability.
Bear in mind that the totals may "look odd": they are cumulative totals of current cases + deaths + recovered.
Unless you have a very weak immune system or you are an elderly (50+) I wouldn't worry to much about this.
All of us will suffer from this virus one way or another, even those who manage to avoid catching the disease itself.
What I don’t understand is why the US still doesn’t have widespread testing. If the government lifted restrictions on testing and let people other than CDC and health authorities test for it, most research hospitals and universities (and many other private labs) would be able to test for this disease very easily. The reagents are commercially available, and most other countries are rolling out (or have already rolled…
Everything else is external.
So, whether you test or not, the fundamentals of aforementined mechanism most likely won't change. Cleaning public areas with disinfectant, educating the public of detailed ways of how this virus spreads (I mean really detailed information... not just what the media is doing currently) and doing everything to make sure there is no shortage of sanitizing supplies.
I can't seem to find exact details of experiments or academic research on how this virus mechanically moves from one body to the other. No newspaper is publishing information about it. Turns out a lot of academic jargon can be explained to laymen if you have someone like Feynman write an article. So, if we can understand the precise mechanism of spread, we can bring down the R value close to 1 or below slowing down the exponential growth.
If there is a probablistic aspect to the containment strategy, say for example, no matter what contingencies we put in place, no matter how clean the society gets, there is always some probability of propagation. That means we're not trying hard enough to understand the virus propagation and to enforce containment procedures. Ultimate goal would be to a get vaccine invented and distributed.