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'Clinically no longer exists': Italian doctor claims coronavirus losing potency
- onetimemanytime 6y agoI've read the same comments made from doctors in another country. The are MDs but absolutely not scientists, as they have no resources or desire to do any research. Maybe they're seeing less severely sick people but unless the virus changed (and we would have heard) I don't see how... Unless, I understand it correctly, once the virus enters, it multiplies by itself.
- Arnt 6y ago"Prof. Alberto Zangrillo is Full Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele and Head of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Italy. […] According to the Scopus database, Zangrillo is among the top 10 doctors in the world for the number of publications of the last 2 years in anesthesia and intensive care." San Raffaele is the university hospital in Milan. Did you really think that its head would not be a scientist?
- onetimemanytime 6y agoSo he analyzed the virus genome or whatever and made that comment? Making incredible claims is a great way to be in the news
- Arnt 6y agoNo, he measured viral load. The number of viruses in patients. As in "the number of viruses present per cm³ of air breathed out", "the number of viruses on one swab from the patient's throat" or similar. There are several ways to measure this, they correlate but are not identical.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI wonder if it has to do with changes in weather - seems possible that rising vitamin D levels would stave things off.