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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: Susievintage on 14/05/2020 09:25:32

Title: Is this scary comparison of Covid-19 with a flu pandemic valid?
Post by: Susievintage on 14/05/2020 09:25:32

This graph is doing the rounds on social media and is very scary (at least for a non-scientist like me) - can someone please tell me how comparable the situations really are?  Are we really only at the start of things? 

Title: Re: Is this scary comparison of Covid-19 with a flu pandemic valid?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 15/05/2020 01:41:06

Quote from: Susievintage on 14/05/2020 09:25:32

This graph is doing the rounds on social media and is very scary (at least for a non-scientist like me) - can someone please tell me how comparable the situations really are?  Are we really only at the start of things? 

It was the same with Asia flu that my mom was telling me about, a class of 40 children, only 6 where attending. The second deadly wave I was reading was offset by the immunity garnered by the first round of infections.

The novel viruses do seem to mutate in the number of people infected all at once. It seems to be a catch 22, either you forgo the immunity given by mass infection through by isolation, or you infect yourselves and risk mutation. Perhaps by limiting the speed of infection we will gain immunity and at the same time inhubit infection. The Uk and States will be hunky dory for a 2nd wave as we are rife with corona, south korea  who are hoping the isolation will stamp it out may well wish they where slightly thess efficient.