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Being highly infectious is one thing but a virus’s deadliness is another. Something can have a really high infectiousness rate but not be very deadly, like comm
by lindenksv85 6y ago
Being highly infectious is one thing but a virus’s deadliness is another. Something can have a really high infectiousness rate but not be very deadly, like common cold. The infectiousness they are citing her is the infectiousness that exists under normal conditions. So if you social distance, you can lower the infectiousness. Projected death rates are going down because distancing is working and we are lowering the virus’s infectiousness.
- xienze 6y ago> because distancing is working Really? Because all I’ve been hearing for weeks is nonstop complaining about how the US started social distancing measures way too late, how no one is taking it seriously, etc.
- tunesmith 6y agoThat's not a counterpoint, though. That can all be true at the same time as it being true that the situation could be a heck of a lot worse right now.