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Seems worse than the average flu. Not likely that you'll die from it if you're young and not immunocompromised, but just because you don't die doesn't mean ther
by jakeinspace 7y ago
Seems worse than the average flu. Not likely that you'll die from it if you're young and not immunocompromised, but just because you don't die doesn't mean there won't be long term health effects. And if you have anyone over age 70 or under age 2 who you care at all about, their lives could be at risk.
- Scipio_Afri 7y agoSeems like children under 9 are not effected much at all, not sure about under 2 tho.
- vanniv 7y agoFor some reason, coronaviruses generally rarely affect children -- and those that get it rarely spread it to others despite children being fucking disease magnets. This seems not to be very well understood, but it is really interesting. So far there are no known cases affecting children under 2 (as of two days ago when I read the paper about coronavirus and children)
- netheril96 7y agoThere have been several infants in China having contracted COVID-19. But no deaths yet.
- JimDabell 7y ago> So far there are no known cases affecting children under 2 This is not the case, there have been a couple of babies infected in Singapore.
- PopePompus 7y agoSeems worse than the average flu AND unlike the flu, there's no vaccine (and there probably won't be one in time to make much of a difference).
- bulutsuzku 7y agoCan anyone just explain how in hell it takes so long to develop a vaccine? Vaccine creators aren't supposed to have billions of USD to make their job? What's the real problem here?
- pbourke 7y ago1. Come up with the vaccine 2. Test vaccine on animals 3. Prove to regulators vaccine is safe enough for limited human trials 4. Conduct limited human trials 5. Research effectiveness of vaccine / absence of side effects 6. Conduct broader human trials 7. Step 5 again 8. Scale up production of vaccine Now, imagine that you can fail at any step and go back to the starting point.
- testplzignore 7y agoIf this situation got really bad, what are the chances of this timeline being accelerated? The US has step 1 done now. Could we roll the dice on doing broader human trials immediately and also in parallel scale up production? Sure you might kill people in trials and waste lots of money, but may be better than the alternative of tens of millions dead.
- mantap 7y agoAre you volunteering?
- mrfusion 7y agoI know most people here like to defend the established ways of doing things. But in an crisis like this we need to go back to first principles and see which steps are really needed and what can be speed up. Every day we waste people die.
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