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I’m not a doctor, but I’d bet it’s closer to a cold - it spreads much faster, but may be less lethal. Also, when a virus jumps between species, its virulence ca
by guscost 7y ago
I’m not a doctor, but I’d bet it’s closer to a cold - it spreads much faster, but may be less lethal. Also, when a virus jumps between species, its virulence can be elevated during the initial period of spread. So it might be a “really bad” cold, at least early on:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361674/
- yters 7y agoI wonder why such panic then.
- guscost 7y agoIf it's really not that bad, I would guess that the panic is because this is the first time we've been able to observe a brand-new cold virus as it spreads around the world. When the general public starts to understand all of the damage that these things do, and how quickly they can spread, it's understandably pretty scary. Plus a whole bunch of other factors.