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That's what I'm saying. (Probably going to get downvoted to smithereens) but how can COVID-19 _which is of the same nature of thousands of other known corona vi
by fullstackchris 6y ago
That's what I'm saying. (Probably going to get downvoted to smithereens) but how can COVID-19 _which is of the same nature of thousands of other known corona viruses_ be so diabolically different than the ones we know about?
I'd bet all these worst-case symptoms are _also_ present in those hit badly by the flu or other corona viruses.
Indeed, after some googling, same is true for H1N1:
https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/nr/H1N1Patients https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/nr/H1N1Patients
and the flu:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/984071 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/984071
These type of articles posted by OP are mostly clickbait. While they ARE true, it's also true for all similar diseases.
- hprotagonist 6y agowhy is this different? because unlike the flu, sars-cov-2 has 8.5 billion immunologically naive hosts.
- votepaunchy 6y agoDoes this count include cats?
- PeterisP 6y agoThe difference is one of scale - out of people infected with seasonal flu, very few are hit really badly by it. As Covid is creating more of the severe cases than flu (despite having infected - yet - much less people than flu), the qualitatively similar effect is much more important simply because it will be affecting potentially much more peope depending on how the world handling of Covid turns out.