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Influenza is contained because there is some form of herd immunity already. Remember COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, which is why it's spread so much so fast,

by zpeti 6y ago

Influenza is contained because there is some form of herd immunity already. Remember COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, which is why it's spread so much so fast, no one is immune at first. But to suggest that the covid death numbers will be this high year after year after year is unlikely in my opinion, as is shown by the fact that many places with big first waves (north italy, sweden, london) don't have a second wave (especially in death numbers).

sdfkkksdfsdff 6y ago
Influenza is also new every year. There have been other Coronaviruses before.
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- AstralStorm 6y ago
  Not exactly new. Partial immunity to many strains of flu is common and widespread. Not so much to SARS family coronaviruses. (Which are very different from other coronaviruses, much more than flu strains between each other.)
  - sdfkkksdfsdff 6y ago
    Nevertheless, isn't the latest finding that many people already seem to be partially immune - perhaps because there are some similarities to other Corona viruses that the immune system can latch on to?
rweir 6y ago
London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyone "who can" work from home to do so for ~4.5 of the last six months (it was briefly rescinded then reinstated), crash built hospitals in convention centres to try to handle overload from hospitals and still is currently at the same new case rate as April[0]. Fortunately death rates are still fairly low. I don't know if a vaccine/other interventions will prevent it being a yearly disaster but it certainly currently is. [0]: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--cases https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--ca...
- thelightthat 6y ago
  My friends in London tell me mask wearing is not widely respected or enforced, which is contributing towards the next lockdown.

by zpeti 6y ago

sdfkkksdfsdff 6y ago

Influenza is also new every year. There have been other Coronaviruses before.

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AstralStorm 6y ago
Not exactly new. Partial immunity to many strains of flu is common and widespread. Not so much to SARS family coronaviruses. (Which are very different from other coronaviruses, much more than flu strains between each other.)
- sdfkkksdfsdff 6y ago
  Nevertheless, isn't the latest finding that many people already seem to be partially immune - perhaps because there are some similarities to other Corona viruses that the immune system can latch on to?

rweir 6y ago

London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyone "who can" work from home to do so for ~4.5 of the last six months (it was briefly rescinded then reinstated), crash built hospitals in convention centres to try to handle overload from hospitals and still is currently at the same new case rate as April[0]. Fortunately death rates are still fairly low. I don't know if a vaccine/other interventions will prevent it being a yearly disaster but it certainly currently is. [0]: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--cases https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--ca...

thelightthat 6y ago
My friends in London tell me mask wearing is not widely respected or enforced, which is contributing towards the next lockdown.